BSc (Hons) Social Science Bachelor's degree at Royal Holloway, University of London

This module explores contemporary social issues, including poverty, inequality, unemployment and discrimination. You will learn about the foundations of the welfare state as well as social policies in areas such as education, housing, health and family life.

This module will explore and examine how human behaviour and experience are influenced by social and interactional experiences and contexts across the lifespan. You will identify and critically analyse literature and research evidence on human experience and development to understand how life events and social contexts impact on people's experiences.

This module will introduce you to the academic study of politics and to the 'real world' of contemporary politics. As a foundational course, it will give you all the essential tools to understand the nature of politics and analyse the way different political systems work.

This module will introduce you to key theories and problems in ethics. Ethical theories examined may include deontology, utilitarianism, moral sense theory, and virtue ethics.

This module is intended to introduce you to the ways in which the law functions in a social context. It is especially concerned with the ways in which law enables or acts as a barrier to equalities, human rights and social inclusion for a variety of social groups or at different points across the lifespan.

This module will describe the key principles of academic integrity, focusing on university assignments. Plagiarism, collusion and commissioning will be described as activities that undermine academic integrity, and the possible consequences of engaging in such activities will be described.

Lectures will introduce the welfare state and its development from antecedents to the contemporary welfare state and emerging welfare state theory. Perspectives from the right, left, feminist, green and critical race theory will be introduced.

This module provides you with an introduction to the philosophical issues in social research. You will look at ethics in social research and theory, quantitative versus qualitative methods, sampling, observation, interviewing, media analysis, and questionnaire design.

This module gives an overview of the substantive rules of criminal law within a wider social debate as to the nature of crime and the responses of the State. In particular, the course covers the general principles of criminal liability by examining a range of offences against the person and offences against property as well as assessing the available defences that limit or negate criminal liability.

Students will critically discuss the role, function and nature of the family in contemporary society as well as examining changing patterns of family life. The course also explores how social identities and different social positions (for example those related to class, gender, or ethnicity) impact upon the experience of family life.

This professionally oriented module addresses students' employability skills with providing them with foundational level competences (knowledge, skills, values and agency) in social care. The emphasis within this module is empowering, holistic, person-centred, individual level care which will be contextualised from the perspectives of professional multi-agency practice, diversity and service user involvement.

The aims of this module are: To present an overview of key areas in the sociology of youth. To cover the changing conceptions and meaning of 'youth' within western society. To detail and examine the changing social and economic position of the young.

This module will introduce you to key topics in madness studies. We will review different approaches to understanding and responding to madness. A key theme of the module will be the relationship between social factors and ideas of madness, and the roles of key state agencies and professional groups.

This module will builds on the Level 4 module, 'Perspectives on People in Society'. The lectures will introduce key theories, perspectives and diverse contexts for ageing in society, including family, work, care and caring, risk, citizenship and belonging.

This module is a key bridge between the first year modules in comparative politics and international relations and the third year modules in the politics of Africa, China, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Asia. It is designed to equip you with a critical understanding of the most important features of the history of international development which build the foundations of our modern world.

Democracy in Britain explores the theory and practice of modern British politics. It's designed primarily to familiarise students with the ways in which British democracy has evolved, how it operates today and some of the challenges that confront it.

In this module you will demonstrate practical and applied social research skills. You will choose a specialist topic and work with an allocated supervisor to undertake a research project.

In this module you will develop an understanding of different sociological approaches to the study of health and illness, with an awareness of the social patterning and causes of ill health. You will critically examine debates in the sociology of health and illness, considering factors such as social class, gender and ethnicity.

The aim of this module is for students to be able to reflect on work placement experience in the wider context of career planning. Content of the module itself is very simple, the student being responsible for their own research and reflection, as guided by the Careers Service.

In this module you will develop a historical and sociological understanding of the study of race, racism and ethnicity, with an awareness of the way in which these interact with other social divisions and inequalities.

This module will provide students with a broad overview of violence and harm as committed by individuals or groups within society. Several forms of violence will be examined within the course including but not limited to intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual violence, and elder abuse.