Mode of Study

Part-time

Start Date

30th Sep 2025, 37 weeks

Day(s):

Friday

Time:

9:00 - 16:00

Location

City Campus

Cost

£ 1274

Overview

Looking to complete your social sciences honours degree in a single year?  Then this is the perfect course for you.

Using your HND in Social Sciences as an entry requirement, you will complete two modules on campus and in person in the academic year 2025-26 to achieve an honours degree.

City of Glasgow College delivers this honours degree in partnership with The Open University in Scotland, bringing together the best of college and online university education. 

The college offers a dynamic, student-centred environment where students can thrive, and The Open University’s online learning resources and student support are exemplary. You will have the best of both worlds: in-class lectures at the college, supported by online materials and resources hosted by The Open University. You'll attend college one day per week.

Course Fee

This course can be funded via SAAS part time fee grant. If your income is £25,000 or less, or you’re receiving certain benefits, you could qualify for the Open University fee grant to cover 100% of your course fees. 

Entry requirements

Minimum entry requirements

•  HND Social Sciences with 30 HN credits (240 SCQF credits, with at least 120 credits at SCQF level 7 and 120 credits at SCQF level 8).

Additional selection requirements

• You'll be invited for a group and/or individual interview where you can find out more about the course and tell us why you're interested in this subject area.

What you study

You will study two modules on the course:

Social Theory: Changing Social Worlds explores some of the most important and influential traditions of sociological thought and the ever-changing social worlds that they emerge in response to. It examines how transformations across four key areas of concern – work, culture, life, and control – have been accompanied by both significant social struggles and associated innovations in social theory and analysis.

Crime, harm and the state - Why are some events which cause harm, of various kinds, formally labelled and treated as crimes when others are not and how and why does this vary by region and over time?

You’ll focus on constructions of ‘harm’ or ‘social harm’ and how these are intimately linked to the state as the key source of definitions of crime through law. You’ll also critically consider the role and function of criminological theory and its proximity to state power and have an opportunity to develop your criminological imagination and identity.

After the course

Careers

As with any other Honours degree, graduates can look for employment in related fields.  Employers across many areas of employment, in both the public and private sectors, seek to recruit social science graduates because of their advanced skills of analysis and communication.

• Information on careers.

Continuing Study

Further study at postgraduate level.

Teaching

How the course is taught