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All modules in Social Sciences

Our social sciences modules provide introductions and detailed investigations of psychology, social policy and criminology, geography and environment, politics and international studies, economics and sociology.

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Social Sciences modules

OU level 1

  1. Economics in context
  2. Environment: journeys through a changing world
  3. Global challenges: social science in action
  4. Introducing the social sciences
  5. Introduction to childhood studies and child psychology
  6. Introduction to criminology
  7. Law making in Scotland
  8. Science and health: an evidence-based approach
  9. You and your money
  10. Young children's play and creativity

OU level 2

  1. Child development: birth to adolescence
  2. Economics in practice
  3. Environment and society
  4. Environment: sharing a dynamic planet
  5. Essential economics: macro and micro perspectives
  6. Exploring childhood and youth
  7. Exploring international relations: actors, issues, perspectives
  8. Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences
  9. Introducing global development: poverty, inequality, sustainability
  10. Investigating philosophy
  11. Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary
  12. Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
  13. Understanding criminology
  14. Understanding digital societies
  15. Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world

OU level 3

  1. Advancing social psychology
  2. Approaches to mental health
  3. Contemporary research with children and young people
  4. Crime, harm and the state
  5. Doing economics: inequalities, innovation and environment
  6. Environmental policy in an international context
  7. Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity
  8. Exploring legal boundaries
  9. International relations: continuity and change in global politics
  10. Key questions in philosophy
  11. Law, society and culture
  12. Modern political ideas
  13. Religion and global challenges in the past and present
  14. Signals and perception: the science of the senses
  15. Young lives, parenting and families

Access modules

  1. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module
  2. Psychology, social science and wellbeing Access module: fast track

Short courses

  1. AI language technology in the workplace

Other Social Sciences courses

  1. Social Sciences Degrees
  2. Social Sciences Diplomas
  3. Social Sciences Certificates