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Social Sciences courses

This is a list of all the modules available for study as standalone courses in Social Sciences. Please note that this is an alphabetical list. You should not study these courses in this order.

OU modules are planned on the assumption that you will study progressively from one study level to the next, starting at Level 1. Modules at Level 2 and Level 3 assume that you are suitably prepared for study at this level. If you want to study a module as a standalone course, you don't need to start at Level 1 but you do need to have adequately prepared yourself for OU study in some other way. Check with advisory staff at our Student Registration & Enquiry Service to make sure that you are sufficiently prepared.

Course title (code) Level Credits Next Start
Child development (ED209) 2 60 Oct 2013
Cognitive psychology (DD303) 3 60 Jan 2014
Contemporary Wales (D172) 1 15 Aug 2013
Counselling: exploring fear and sadness (D240) 2 30 May 2014
Crime and justice (DD301) 3 60 Oct 2013
Discovering psychology (DSE141) 1 30 Oct 2013
Doing economics: people, markets and policy (DD309) 3 60 Feb 2014
Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311) 3 60 Feb 2014
Economics and economic change (DD202) 2 60
Exploring psychology (DSE212) 2 60 Oct 2013
Exploring psychology on-line project (DZX222) - online version 2 15 Oct 2013
Exploring psychology project (DXR222) 2 15 Jun 2013
Introducing the social sciences - part one (DD131) 1 30 Oct 2013
Introducing the social sciences (DD101) 1 60 Oct 2013
Introduction to counselling (D171) 1 15 Oct 2013
Introduction to financial services (BD131) 1 10 Aug 2013
Living in a globalised world (DD205) 2 60 Oct 2013
Living political ideas (DD306) 3 60 Oct 2013
Making social worlds (DD308) 3 60 Oct 2013
Personal investment in an uncertain world (DB234) 2 30 May 2014
Personal lives and social policy (DD305) 3 60 Oct 2013
Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics (DD203) 2 60 Oct 2013
Running the economy (DD209) NEW 2 60 Oct 2013
Social psychology: critical perspectives on self and others (DD307) 3 60 Jan 2014
Starting with psychology (Y183) 1 15 Nov 2013
The uses of social science (DD206) 2 60 Sep 2013
Welfare, crime and society (DD208) 2 60 Oct 2013
You and your money: personal finance in context (DB123) 1 30 Oct 2013

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