BA Global Social Challenges / Overview

Year of entry: 2024

Degree awarded
Bachelor of Arts
Duration
3 or 4 years
Typical A-level offer
Grades ABB.
Typical International Baccalaureate offer

34 points overall.  6,5,5 in Higher Level subjects.

Full entry requirements

How to apply

Applications for this course will be through UCAS.

UCAS course code
LM70
UCAS institution code
M20

Course overview

  • Join one of the UK’s top ten universities for social science courses (Times Higher Education Rankings 2022) to study a uniquely contemporary and transdisciplinary degree.
  • Gain the intellectual and practical skills to face head-on some of the most pressing social challenges and harms of our times, such as social injustice, climate change, conflict, violence and migration.
  • Understand and respond to global challenges from a wealth of perspectives, including politics, economics, law, criminology, philosophy, sociology, social anthropology and social statistics.
  • Gain key knowledge, skills, analytic and professional expertise to work across national and international organisations, governmental bodies and the voluntary sector.

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Policy on additional costs

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Contact details

School/Faculty
School of Social Sciences
Contact name
School of Social Sciences Admissions Office
Telephone
+44 (0) 161 543 4029
Email
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