Transferring credit from an HNC or HND reduces the time it will take to complete the BA (Honours) Social Sciences qualification. Visit our College Routes pages to find out more about making the most of your HNC or HND and working towards a degree with the Open University.
Introductory:
- Modern slavery
- Forensic psychology
- The meaning of crime
- Political ordering
- What is Europe?
- Reading evidence
- Identity in question
- Psychological research, obedience and ethics
- Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths
- Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
- Poverty in Scotland
Intermediate:
- Children’s rights
- Does prison work?
- Psychology in the 21st century
- Passports: identity and airports
- Social psychology and politics
- Democracy? Do you think you know?
- Nationalism, self-determination and secession
- The politics of devolution
- Social problems: Who makes them?
- Living and working in the new economy
- Who belongs to Glasgow?
- Social construction and social constructionism
- Understanding media: The celebrity in the text
- How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
- Learning from audio-visual material: Introducing surveillance
- Welfare reconstruction
- What do we mean by 'family'?
- Investigating psychology
- Making sense of ourselves
Advanced:
- Physical activity: a family affair
- Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Introduction to critical criminology
- Attention
- Sexuality, parenthood and population
- Remaking the relations of work and welfare
- Race, ethnicity and crime
- Who counts as a refugee?
- Retiring lives? Old age, work and welfare
- Criminology beyond crime
- Themes in discourse research: The case of Diana
- The social in social science