BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

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.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.On this course you will explore 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.