Social Policy, BSc (Hons)

The BA (Hons) in Social Policy at Swansea University provides a flexible programme tailored to individual interests, with second-year options including an employability module and work placement. It explores societal changes, global influences like globalisation and the EU, and institutional responses to pressing challenges, enabling students to influence social needs recognition and policy development.This degree equips graduates for careers in public services, criminal justice, voluntary sectors, or personnel management, while fostering transferable skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication. Ranked top 5 in the UK for student satisfaction and top 15 for graduate prospects (Complete University Guide 2024), with 92% in work or study post-graduation (HESA 2023), the course features compulsory first-year modules, optional choices in later years including topics like poverty and social justice, and a final dissertation. Assessment includes exams, essays, group tasks, presentations, and reflections.

Your first year of study is made up of compulsory modules covering a range of themes. Compulsory modules are studied by all students on the programme, meaning you are automatically enrolled. Examples of compulsory modules include: • Environments of Social Policy • Economics in Society • Individuals and Society In your second and third year you will study a mixture of compulsory and optional modules, from an expansive range of subject areas. Examples of optional modules in recent years have included: • Poverty and Social Justice • Sociology of Health and Illness • Criminalisation of Sex • Capitalism and Justice: inequality, power and prosperity in contemporary economies • Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change Your final year will include a compulsory independent dissertation project. For the full programme structure and module breakdown, please visit our webpage at https://www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/social-sciences/criminology-sociology-social-policy/bsc-social-policy/