Personalise your School of Society and Culture degree

Find out how our flexible course structures provide you with an opportunity to personalise your studies, feed your curiosity, and help you achieve your career aspirations
Personalise your School of Society and Culture degree


Make your degree your own

We offer a unique course structure that allows you to study topics that are important to you. All our degrees have a wide range of optional modules that allow you to follow your interests and play to your strengths.

Dive deeper into your subject
Choose to take optional modules within the structure of your course which fit your particular academic interests as they emerge.

Branch out and explore new subject areas
Choose to take optional modules taught across different degrees within the School of Society and Culture.


Study a combination of subject areas

If you choose to study three modules from the same subject area (outside your core degree), you will be able to add this second subject area to your final degree certificate:

BA/BSc (Hons) [core degree] with [second subject area]

Add a law component to your study of politics or mix things up and express yourself through creative writing or drama – the possibilities are almost endless.

1. Choose your core degree

Next steps after you start studying...

2. Choose your second-year optional modules 2. Choose your second-year optional modules
 Stick with modules from within your core degree subject area, or swap in modules from a different school subject area

3. Choose your final-year module 3. Choose your final-year module
 As you approach the final year of your degree, you should be in a good position to choose your final optional module

4. Achieve your final degree certificate 4. Achieve your final degree certificate
 If you've studied three optional modules from the same second subject area, you can choose to add this to your degree certificate – for example, BA (Hons) Acting with Music

We know that you need time to develop your interests. You don’t have to make any decisions about modules until the second year of your core degree.

We will support you in choosing modules and subjects that are best suited for your interests, academic strengths and chosen career path.

Benefits of personalising your degree

Play to your strengths Play to your strengths
 Hone your talents and study the subject areas that suit your academic interests and strengths

Gain additional skills employers value Gain additional skills employers value
 A cross-disciplinary degree can evidence your willingness to learn and could broaden your future career opportunities

Experiential opportunities Experiential opportunities
 Branching out can provide you with diverse and rewarding experiences

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