Open University

社会科学（政治）学士（荣誉）

The qualification provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills, and other attributes in the following areas:

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this qualification, you will have:

• An extensive knowledge and critical understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches in the social sciences
• A systematic understanding of a range of disciplinary approaches within the social sciences and an awareness of the different sources that contribute to the social sciences
• An extensive and critical understanding of key social processes and their impact on individual and collective life
• 批判性地评价社会科学如何理解、解释和评价社会关注的问题，

Cognitive skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:

• Interpret, critically analyse, and evaluate a diversity of social scientific ideas, concepts, and arguments, and identify, gather, interpret, critically analyse, and evaluate evidence from a wide range of sources
• Demonstrate knowledge of and familiarity with established techniques of social science analysis and enquiry
• Deploy a conceptual understanding of the social sciences to devise and substantiate arguments that address social problems
• Review, consolidate, and extend your knowledge and understanding, and initiate and carry out an independent social scientific project.

Practical and/or professional skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:

• Regularly review current and future personal development and career options, including developing strategies to address factors that limit choices
• Engage critically with skills and ethical issues relevant to social scientific enquiry
• Learn from feedback and reflect on the process of learning to evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and improve performance
• Recognise and critically evaluate personal viewpoints and engage constructively with others’ views.

Key skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Communication - accurately and effectively communicate information about the social sciences in a variety of ways suitable for a range of academic and non-academic audiences, both formal and informal
• Digital information literacy - select, access and exploit a wide range of digital sources and to find, use, create and share information, data and knowledge in ways relevant to the social sciences
• Plan and organise - make and carry out effective plans involving the identification of relevant information and resources frame questions and make judgements to achieve a solution to a problem
• Connect and work with others - work collectively with other learners, playing an active and appropriate role to achieve joint outcomes.

This degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

• 在第 1 阶段，您将学习两个入门社会科学模块，探讨当代社会面临的问题。
• 接下来，在第 2 和第 3 阶段，您将学习社会学模块，探索政治理论的基础并研究现代民主中固有的争论和冲突。

Stage 1 (120 credits)

You'll start your degree with:

• Introducing the social sciences (DD102)

You'll complete this stage with:

• Global challenges: social science in action (D113)

Stage 2 (120 credits)

You'll begin this stage with:

• Understanding digital societies (DD218)

You'll complete this stage with:

• Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world (DD211)

Stage 3 (120 credits)

You’ll complete your degree with one from:

• International relations: continuity and change in global politics (DD313)
• Modern political ideas (DD316)

Assessment

Our assessments are all designed to reinforce your learning and help you show your understanding of the topics. The mix of assessment methods will vary between modules.

Computer-Marked Assignments

• Usually, a series of online, multiple-choice questions.

Tutor-Marked Assignments

• You’ll have a number of these throughout each module, each with a submission deadline.
• They can be made up of essays, questions, experiments or something else to test your understanding of what you have learned.
• Your tutor will mark and return them to you with detailed feedback.

End-of-Module Assessments

• The final, marked piece of work on most modules.
• Modules with an end-of-module assessment won’t usually have an exam.

Exams

• Some modules end with an exam. You’ll be given time to revise and prepare.
• You’ll be given your exam date at least 5 months in advance.
• Most exams take place remotely, and you will complete them at home or an alternative location.
• If a module requires you to take a face-to-face exam, this will be made clear in the module description, and you will be required to take your exam in person at one of our exam centres.

社会科学学位可让您在公共、私营和志愿部门找到工作。企业、公共部门组织和教育机构越来越多地需要处理社会问题，并重视社会科学毕业生可以提供的技能，这使得该学位与各种职业相关，包括地方政府官员、公务员、中学教师、社会工作者、慈善机构、新闻界和工会官员。您还可以利用您的社会科学学士学位（荣誉）在高等教育领域进一步学习。

其他职业

许多研究生级的工作对社会毕业生开放，特别是在商业，志愿部门和公共部门。但是，请注意，有些职业可能需要进一步的学习，培训和/或工作经验超出你的学位。

通过我们独特的远程学习方法，您可以在家中、在工作中或在旅途中学习。

你需要满足一些评估截止日期，但除此之外，你可以自由地在适合自己的时间学习，将学习安排在工作、家庭和社交生活之间。

对于每个模块，您要么只使用在线资源，要么结合使用在线和印刷材料。

您学习的每个模块都会有一个模块网站

• 每周的学习计划，为你提供循序渐进的学习指导
• 课程材料，如阅读材料、视频、录音和自我评估活动
• 用于与其他学生进行讨论和合作活动的模块论坛
• 每项作业的详细信息及其截止日期
• 辅导预订系统、在线辅导室以及导师的联系方式
• 一些印刷模块材料和资源的在线版本。