Open University

BA (com honras) em Ciências Sociais (Política)

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
• Uma apreciação crítica de como as ciências sociais entendem, explicam e avaliam questões de interesse social,

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.

• No Estágio 1, você estudará dois módulos introdutórios às ciências sociais que exploram as questões que a sociedade contemporânea enfrenta.
• A seguir, nas Etapas 2 e 3 , você fará um módulo de sociologia, bem como explorará os fundamentos da teoria política e examinará os debates e conflitos inerentes a uma democracia moderna.

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.

Uma licenciatura em ciências sociais pode levar ao emprego nos setores público, privado e voluntário. As empresas, as organizações do sector público e as instituições de ensino têm cada vez mais de lidar com questões sociais e valorizar as competências que os licenciados em ciências sociais podem proporcionar, tornando este diploma relevante para uma vasta gama de profissões, incluindo funcionários do governo local, funcionários públicos, professores do ensino secundário, assistente social. , instituições de caridade, jornalismo e dirigentes sindicais. Você também pode usar seu BA (Hons) em Ciências Sociais para estudos adicionais no setor de ensino superior.

Outras carreiras

Muitos empregos de pós-graduação estão abertos a graduados sociais, particularmente nos negócios, no setor de voluntariado e no setor público. Por favor, note, no entanto, que algumas carreiras podem exigir mais estudos, treinamento e / ou experiência profissional além do seu grau.

Com nossa abordagem única de ensino à distância, você pode estudar em casa, no trabalho ou em qualquer lugar.

Você terá alguns prazos de avaliação a cumprir, mas, fora isso, estará livre para estudar nos horários que lhe forem mais convenientes, conciliando seu aprendizado com o trabalho, a família e a vida social.

Para cada um dos seus módulos, você usará apenas recursos online ou uma mistura de materiais online e impressos.

Cada módulo que você estudar terá um site de módulo com

• Um planejador de estudos semanais, que fornece um guia passo a passo durante seus estudos
• Materiais do curso, como leitura, vídeos, gravações e atividades autoavaliadas
• Fóruns de módulos para discussões e atividades colaborativas com outros alunos
• Detalhes de cada tarefa e suas datas de entrega
• Um sistema de reserva de tutoriais, salas de tutoriais online e os detalhes de contato do seu tutor
• Versões on-line de alguns materiais e recursos impressos do módulo.