Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (Honours) - Global Challenges (Social Cohesion) (GL04)

Within the core spine of the Global Challenges degree, students will take an in-depth look at issues such as climate change, sustainable development, migration, terrorism, inequality and poverty and how they affect the world we live in. Alongside this, with the Social Cohesion pathway students will delve into the pressing need to address social wellbeing.

Looking at the multiple challenges of economic hardship, unemployment, terrorism, and mass human migration, students will address the causes and consequences of social inequalities, and the ways in which they can be tackled.

In the first year students will explore global issues like capitalism, poverty, social injustice and social infrastructures as they start to think critically about the influence of power in social inequality.

In the second year students will focus on social cohesion and social wellness and how it relates to the challenges associated with the migration of displaced peoples and the role cyberculture and cybersecurity. In the final year, students will study social conflict as they explore war, violence and human rights violations.

Throughout this course students will build their ability to work in teams as they build skills in project management, debates, presenting and team pitches. A third year Enterprise Project will help to bring all these skills together as students work on a group project with a real organisation.

Students have the option to apply for an internship at the end of the first year and can take a one-year placement between years two and three, giving them valuable work experience and a step ahead for their career when they graduate.