BA Social Change
University of Essex
Key Information
Campus location
Colchester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
BA Social Change
If you're looking to change the world, our BA Social Change is designed for you. With increasing awareness of global issues, there has never been a more vital time to contribute meaningfully to social change. In this course, you'll tackle issues from ethics to sustainability and gain a historical perspective on the forces that have shaped our multicultural and interconnected world.
On this flexible degree, you'll broaden your knowledge whilst acquiring the tools required to address today's pressing social problems, transform society and make a positive change in an increasingly globalised world. Through social action projects and by participating in group community projects, you'll gain practical experiences and develop the high-level transferrable skills required to make a real-world difference. Along the way, you'll build the skills needed to take on global challenges as an effective social change leader.
BA Social Change will equip you with the theoretical and practical skills required of a future change-maker. Throughout the course you'll cover key areas including but not limited to:
- Community engagement
- Sustainability
- Human rights
- Social justice
- Individualism
Based within ourInterdisciplinary Studies Centre(ISC), this course enables you to explore social change across multiple disciplinary perspectives. The flexible structure of this course allows you to choose a range of optional modules across sociology, philosophy, history, politics, human rights, literature and more.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Modern Revolutions in Science, Politics, and Culture
- The Sociological Imagination
- Foundations of Human Rights
- Skills for University Studies
Year 2
- The World in Question: The Social, Cultural, Political & Environmental Legacies of the Enlightenment
- Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and Community Action
Final Year
- Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism Capstone
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Through BA Social Change you'll gain an all-round education, acquiring a diverse set of skills and a wide range of knowledge. As a flexible and creative thinker and doer, you will be able to adapt to a rapidly evolving world of work.
Our course provides you with an excellent basis for going onto a career in charity, fundraising, PR and the media, law, government and more.
We also work with the University's Student Development Team to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.
Program delivery
BA Social Change: 3 years
BA Social Change(Including Year Abroad): 4 years
BA Social Change (Including Placement Year): 4 years
- Taught mostly through lectures plus seminars of fewer than twenty students
- You take a one-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar for most of your modules every week
- Other teaching methods will depend on your individual combination of subjects