Social Sciences

Prepare yourself for the increasing number of jobs in the highly rewarding areas of health and social care. Develop your knowledge and skills in areas such as psychosocial perspectives of health, counselling, research, health improvement, and behaviour change.

Develop your ability to work effectively with children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and shadow qualified social workers in practice. This course combines an honours degree with a professional qualification in Social Work approved by Social Work England and endorsed by the College of Social Work.

Make a real difference to the lives of young people and their communities. Learn from a teaching team of experienced and qualified youth workers. Graduated with a qualification in youth work accredited by the JNC.

Learn about crime, criminal behaviour and punishment, visit criminal courts and prisons, and take advantage of volunteering opportunities and an optional placement in a relevant organisation. Develop analytical and practical skills in both quantitative and qualitative research, often needed for further academic study and highly sought after by employers.

Refine your professional approach. Build up the graduate attributes of a reflective practitioner and cover a range of topics that include child development, early years, the primary curriculum, and family studies. Combine practical skills with academic rigour and work more effectively with children in a variety of contexts.

This is a four-year version of our popular BA (Hons) Health and Social Care course, with an integrated foundation year. Prepare yourself for the increasing number of jobs in the highly rewarding areas of health and social care. Develop your knowledge and skills in areas such as psychosocial perspectives of health, counselling, research, health improvement and behaviour change.

This is a four-year version of our popular BA (Hons) Community and Youth Work Studies course, with an integrated foundation year. Make a real difference to the lives of young people aged between 13 and 19 and their communities. Become a professionally qualified youth worker with a course accredited and endorsed by the National Youth Agency.

This is a four-year version of our popular BSc (Hons) Criminology course, with an integrated foundation year. Learn about crime, criminal behaviour and punishment, visit criminal courts and prisons, and take advantage of volunteering opportunities and an optional placement in a relevant organisation.

This is a four-year version of our popular BA (Hons) Childhood Studies, with an integrated foundation year. Refine your professional approach, build up the graduate attributes of a reflective practitioner, and cover a range of topics that include child development, early years, the primary curriculum and family studies. Combine practical skills with academic rigour, and work more effectively with children in a variety of contexts.

Do you want to top-up a Foundation Degree to a full honours degree in Childhood Studies? Take advantage of a degree-level opportunity for professional development that is perfect if you are working with young people in the early years or primary education sectors. Take up an optional pathway in Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies.  

The BA (Hons) Community and Youth Work (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship) will allow you to develop your practice in the workplace and learn off the job in order to qualify as a professional (JNC) youth worker. The course has been designed to focus on engaging professional development and you will undertake specific experience to enable your learning needs and demonstrate the necessary skills required by the apprenticeship standard.

With our BA (Hons) Social Work Degree Apprenticeship, you will study for a degree while also gaining invaluable 'on the job' experience. Social Workers improve the lives of a huge range of people. You could work with people with learning difficulties, children and families, older people, people who have problems with drug and alcohol misuse, people who experience mental health problems, or disabled people. As an apprentice, you will undertake much of your learning ‘on the job’ with the support of your employer and designated mentor.

Are you already experienced in the field of health and social care? This foundation degree, which has been developed in recognition of the multidisciplinary nature of current and future occupational destinations within the health and social care fields, will help you build on your knowledge and add to your skills. Understand organisational dynamics and specialise in particular pathways, areas, and topics of interest.

Prepare yourself for the increasing number of jobs in the highly rewarding areas of health and social care. Develop your knowledge and skills in areas such as psychosocial perspectives of health, counselling, research, health improvement, and behaviour change.

Pick and choose the modules you want to study to build a tailor-made course. Available at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, this course allows you to gain a qualification that closely matches your particular needs.