Courses

Develop your interest in social, cultural and political history by focusing on themes of activism, how change happens and how historical events shape contemporary society.

What can history teach us about how political systems and democratic processes evolve over time? Study history with politics and you'll gain a greater understanding of how society and politics systems work.

Take an interdisciplinary approach to International Relations (IR), contextualising international processes historically, politically and socially. Full-time / Part-time.

On this course, you'll learn to produce engaging multimedia content, grounding your investigative pursuits in issues of development and under development, conflict and conflict resolution, war and terrorism, globalisation and activism.

Explore key political issues relevant to the global community. You’ll examine the big issues: development and under development, conflict and conflict resolution, war and terrorism, global environmental challenges and activism.

Undergraduate BA (Hons) Politics degree course; providing an understanding of society and its complexity and diversity.

Learn to produce engaging multimedia content, grounding your investigative pursuits in political theory, political science, political economy, area studies and international relations.

Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Criminology course; preparing you to work in probation, policing and the prison service.

How are laws and offenders made? Who avoids criminalisation and why? Explore the impact of journalism on the problem of crime and our criminal justice policy.

Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Criminology with Law course; first steps to working in probation, policing and the prison service.

Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Criminology with Psychology degree course; first steps to working in probation, policing, prison service and social support services.

Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Sociology degree course; an insight into human societies, cultures and behaviours.

Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology degree course; an insight into human societies, cultures and behaviours, crime and criminal justice.

Postgraduate MSc Development Studies course; delivered by internationally renowned social development experts.

MSc Refugee Studies course; led by Professor Gaim Kibreab, internationally recognised expert on forced migration, resettlement, repatriation and development, governance and civil society.

Masters (MSc) / PgDip Education for Sustainability course; understand sustainability and become and effective agent for change.

A member of staff, expert in the chosen field, is directly responsible for guiding and supporting your research programme. Offered full-time and part-time.