Psychosocial Studies with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

This BA Psychosocial Studies course is ideal if you are interested in understanding and responding to critical social issues in contemporary society and want to have a positive involvement in improving human social life.

Why choose this course?

• It involves collaboration and engagement with experts in the field of human rights, women’s rights, psychoanalysis, social justice, and those working to tackle homophobia, racial, sexual, gender-based violence and other forms of social inequalities.
• You will learn from scholars across our School of Social Sciences, including in politics, geography, gender studies, criminology, health and social care as you study modules including themes of power, love, hate and class.
• It benefits from connections to research centres such as the Centre for Psychosocial Studies.

What you will learn

On this course you will explore what we can learn about human behaviour and our capacity to influence change in the global social world considering what we know about war, terror and conflict and the simultaneous outpouring of love, compassion and humanity in society.

You will learn about the work of leading contemporary psychosocial theorists such as Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, bell hooks and Pierre Bourdieu. You will also explore how academics and activists collaborate to impact change in human social life.

This course offers you a pathway, the Psychosocial Studies with Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling, allowing you to specialise further depending on your interests and career goals.

How you will learn

This course is available for you to study full- or part-time with evening classes to support you balancing your studies with work and other commitments.

Classes consist of lectures, small group seminars, individual tutorials, practical fieldwork sessions and interactive group work with fellow students. You will also be able to undertake a supervised research projects on a topic of your choice and can participate in termly, high profile seminars focusing on critical social issues in contemporary society.

Foundation Year

If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree. Find out everything you need to know about Foundation Years.