**Design your own bespoke degree in our flexible courses.**
Combined Honours in Social Sciences provides fantastic flexibility and choice across Durham’s breadth of world-renowned research-led education, allowing you to create a bespoke, academically ambitious degree suited to your individual interests, strengths and career plans. Our Combined Honours degree enables you to choose modules from two, three or even four subjects, enabling you to develop your expertise or to explore new interests. The course provides a flexible, multidisciplinary framework with the opportunity to spend a year abroad or on a work placement, preparing you for your career ambitions.
You will be focusing on subjects in the Social Sciences, but you can take up to half of your credits in the Arts and Humanities.
In the Social Sciences, the subjects currently available to you are: Anthropology / Archaeology / Business / Economics / Education / Geography / International Relations / Politics / Sociology and Criminology / Sport.
Please note it is not possible to study Business and Economics alone or Politics and International Relations alone – for these combinations you would need to look at courses offered by the Business School or School of Government and International Affairs, respectively.
In the Arts and Humanities, the subjects currently available to you are: Classics and Ancient History / English Literature / History / Music / Philosophy / Theology and Religious Studies / Visual Art / Arabic / Chinese / French / German / Italian / Japanese / Russian / Spanish.
**Year 1**
In your first year, you will choose 120 credits (typically six 20 credit modules) from two, three or four subjects.
**Year 2**
In your second year, you will choose 120 credits from two, three or four subjects.
**Year 3 (Year 4 if undertaking a Year Abroad)**
In your final year, you will undertake a major Research Project, and choose additional modules up to a total of 120 from two or three subjects.
Your choice of modules is subject to availability, timetable constraints, and the approval of the Director of Combined Honours in Social Sciences. You will also need to meet subject-specific requirements.
**Placement Year**
You may have the opportunity to undertake an optional placement year during your time at Durham. Similarly to the ‘Year Abroad’, this will extend your degree by a year and take place between your second and final year.
We review course structures and core content (in light of e.g. external and student feedback) every year, and will publish finalised core requirements for 2020 entry from September 2019.
**Study Abroad**
**Combined Honours in Social Sciences - The Year Abroad (Modern Languages)**
If, in the first year, you are taking Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish, and you intend to continue studying one or more of these languages throughout your degree, you will insert a ‘Year Abroad’ into your course of study between your second year and your final year. The Year Abroad offers you an opportunity to study at a university, or to teach English in a secondary school, or to undertake an internship, in a wide variety of locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, or Latin America. You will be transferred from the three-year to the four-year version of your degree course at the end of your first year, giving you over a year in which to plan the Year Abroad, in consultation with your advisers in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. If, however, you later decide to stop studying a language, at the end of your second year, you will transfer back to the three-year version of the course.
Alternatively, you can study a language through the School’s Centre for Foreign Language Study (CFLS). The Centre teaches a number of European and Asian languages at beginners’, intermediate, and advanced levels but these do not lead to a Year Abroad.
For more information on this course, please see our website.
Course Details - Modules
Combined Honours in Social Sciences provides fantastic flexibility and choice across Durham’s breadth of world-renowned research-led education, allowing you to create a bespoke, academically ambitious degree suited to your individual interests, strengths and career plans.
Our Combined Honours degree enables you to choose modules from two, three or even four subjects, enabling you to develop your expertise or to explore new interests. The course provides a flexible, multidisciplinary framework with the opportunity to spend a year abroad or on a work placement, preparing you for your career ambitions.
You will be focusing on subjects in the Social Sciences, but you can take up to half of your credits in the Arts and Humanities.
In the Social Sciences, the subjects currently available to you are:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Business
Economics
Education
Geography
International Relations
Politics
Sociology and Criminology
Sport.
Please note it is not possible to study Business and Economics alone or Politics and International Relations alone – for these combinations you would need to look at courses offered by the Business School or School of Government and International Affairs, respectively.
In the Arts and Humanities, the subjects currently available to you are:
Classics and Ancient History
English Literature
History
Music
Philosophy
Theology and Religious Studies
Visual Arts
Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish.
Year 1
In your first year, you will choose 120 credits (typically six 20 credit modules) from two, three or four subjects.
Year 2
In your second year, you will choose 120 credits from two, three or four subjects.
Year 3 (Year 4 if undertaking a Year Abroad)
In your final year, you will undertake a major Research Project, and choose additional modules up to a total of 120 from two or three subjects.
Please note that the list of optional modules available in any year will vary depending on available teaching staff. The lists above provide an example of the type of modules which may be offered.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
LMV0
Institution code:
D86
Campus Name:
Grey College
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
General information on subjects/grades required for entry:
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Specific subjects excluded for entry:
General Studies and Critical Thinking.
Information:
Applicants taking Science A-levels that include a practical component will be required to take and pass this as a condition of entry. This refers only to English A Levels.
We will normally make offers based on Advanced Highers. If an applicant has not been able to take 3 Advanced Highers, offers may be made with a combination of Advanced Highers and Highers, or on a number of Highers.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
We require 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3 (or equivalent). Applicants may be required to meet additional subject-specific requirements for particular courses at Durham.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Information:
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
6, 6, 6 at Higher Level.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Subject specific A levels may also be required depending on subjects to be studied.
Particular subjects may be required depending on the subjects to be studied. Please check the departmental webpages.
Our contextual offer for this programme is A level AAA/A*AB (or equivalent). To find out if you’re eligible, please visit: www.dur.ac.uk/study/ug/apply/contextualoffers/.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
https://www.dur.ac.uk/study/ug/apply/entry/
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
Durham University welcomes applications from all students irrespective of background. We encourage the recruitment of academically well-qualified and highly motivated students, who are non-native speakers of English, whose full potential can be realised with a limited amount of English Language training either prior to entry or through pre-sessional and/or in-sessional courses.
It is the normal expectation that candidates for admission should be able to demonstrate satisfactory English proficiency before the start of a programme of study, whether via the submission of an appropriate English language qualification or by attendance on an appropriate pre-sessional course.
Acceptable evidence and levels required can be viewed by following the link provided.
