Program Overview
This transdisciplinary degree explores pressing social challenges like injustice and climate change from perspectives like politics, economics, and sociology. Graduates acquire skills and knowledge to address these issues in organizations, governments, and the nonprofit sector. The program offers virtual open days, student ambassador chats, and other engagement opportunities to prospective students.
Program Outline
Degree 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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- Open days: The University of Manchester hosts on-campus open days in the summer and autumn.
- Policy on additional costs: All students should normally be able to complete their program of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that program. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the program in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Scholarships and bursaries are available to eligible Home/EU students, including the Manchester Bursary.
