Колледж Биркбек, Лондонский университет, BSc, Social Science

Year 1: There are a number of pathways; students who do not have recent experience of learning in social science to take the core module: Introduction to lifelong learning and personal development planning, in the 1st term; students who take the core module can also take special subject or option modules from a range of social science subject areas at level 4, totalling a further 60 credits; students who take the core module: introduction to lifelong learning and personal development planning: approaches to social sciences, can also take 2 modules from the Higher Education Introductory Studies programme: sociology and politics; or psychology; students who have taken previous pre-entry/access courses, may take all of their year 1 modules from a single social science discipline (for example psychology, sociology, criminology, social anthropology, development studies) from a CertHE programme; students may take modules from the following subject areas in Stratford: community leadership; development studies; gender and culture; higher education introductory studies; Islamic studies; politics; social anthropology; social policy and the care sector; sociology; understanding London; students may also take modules from the following subject areas in central London: communication skills; criminology; development studies; economics; gerontology; higher education introductory studies; international and European studies; law and legal studies; London studies; politics; psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; religious studies; social anthropology; social policy and the care sector; sociology . Year 2: Centres on 4 disciplines within the social sciences, which explore debates about the person at an individual, collective, national and international/global level; students must take 4 core modules totalling 60 credits (taught in Stratford): Psychological approaches to social conflict; sociological approaches to social conflict; political science; approaches to social conflict; contemporary perspectives in development studies: war, terror and social conflict; in addition, students must take option modules totalling 30 credits at level 4 from the social science disciplines listed above; other options may also be available from other Schools within Birkbeck. Year 3: Centres on debates in social research and on developing research skills; students must take 1 core module (taught in Stratford): Knowing the social world: understanding and designing social scientific enquiry (30 credits at level 5); in addition, students must take option modules totalling 30 credits at level 5 and 30 credits at level 6 from the social science disciplines listed above; other options may also be available from other Schools within Birkbeck. Year 4: Centres on the development of advanced theoretical and research skills; students must take 1 core module (taught in Stratford): Research dissertation or work-based learning project (60 credits at level 6); in addition, students must take option modules totalling 30 credits at level 6 from the social science disciplines listed above; other options may also be available from other Schools within Birkbeck.

Modules are offered both in Stratford and at the main Birkbeck campus in central London, although the core modules are taught at Birkbeck, Stratford.