UCAS Y000
Arts and Sciences BASc 3 years
The three-year programme of core courses, major and minor pathway and internship.
UCAS Y001
Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad BASc 4 years
The three-year programme plus an additional year abroad.
Societies

How we are organised
In each year, an Arts and Sciences students chooses 3 modules in their
major and 1 in their minor. In year 1 students have a free choice of three modules in their major
from the list offered, though some modules in year 1 may have certain A
level requirements. Students have a free choice of one module in their
minor, subject to timetabling constraints and A level requirements. Students choose major and minor modules in the first week of the course as part of the induction process.
Year 1
The modules listed below are designated as best
encapsulating the conception of the Societies Pathway and are chosen to
allow progression to the most number of higher level courses. Whilst
every effort has been made to timetable these modules so that there are
no clashes between any of them, we cannot guarantee that every
combination is 100% clash-free.
Please note: module availability and content may be subject to change.
| Code | Title | Units |
Notes & prerequisites |
taught |
| ANTH1005A/B |
Introduction to Social Anthropology |
0.5 |
Term 1 or Term 2 |
|
| ARCL1003A/B | Past Societies | 0.5 |
Term 1 or Term 2 |
|
|
CLAS1207 |
Politics Ancient and Modern |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
|
GEOG1007 |
Global Geographies |
0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| HIST1002A | Concepts, Categories and Practice of History A | 0.5 |
Not running in 2013/14 |
|
| LAWS1014 | Law in Action | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| PHIL1016 | Introduction to Political Philosophy | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| POLS6011 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| SESS1003 | Introduction to Microeconomics | 0.5 |
A Level Maths |
Term 1 |
| SESS1004 | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 0.5 | A Level Maths |
Term 2 |
| SESS1102A | Introduction to International Relations | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
|
SESS1202 |
Understanding Society: Introduction to Social Theory |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
|
SESS1203 |
Understanding Society: Introduction to Political Sociology |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
|
STAT6101 |
Introductory Statistical Methods & Computing |
0.5 |
Term 1 or Term 2 |
|
| STAT6102 |
Introductory Statistical Methods (A) |
0.5 |
Term 1 |
Years 2 and 3
Arts and Sciences is designed to offer you the maximum choice of modules at UCL and to encourage interdisciplinarity. To achieve this, in years 2 and 3 you will be offered a free choice of modules available at UCL across the entire university, so long as the choice is consistent with the Pathway objectives, and subject to the following important constraints:
- The student meets the prerequisites for a module. E.g. you could not do certain year 2 modules in Geography without the year 1 GEOG1007. Please note that although we aim to prepare you for a very wide range of choices in each department, there may be some modules at 2nd and 3rd year level which are not available due to prerequisites.
- The modules chosen fit in with the other modules on the student's timetable.
- The Programme Director (in consultation with the Pathway Representatives) approves the choice of modules. This is to ensure that the student works towards a coherent selection of modules which complement each other and which allow for the best academic progression of the student.
| Code | Title | Units | Notes & prerequisites |
Taught |
| ANTH1005A | Introduction to Social Anthropology | 0.5 | ANTH1005A |
Term 1 |
| ANTH2006 | Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology | 0.5 | ANTH1005A |
Term 1 |
| ANTHTBC1 | Anthropology of Kinship | 0.5 | ANTH1005A |
Not running in 2013/14 |
| ARCL2*** | Archaeology of Specific regions | 0.5 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B | |
| ARCL2004 | History and Archaeology of Roman Britain | 1.0 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B Recommended for students also studying History subjects |
Terms 1 & 2 |
| ARCL2005 | Structure & Change in Later European Prehistory | 0.5 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B | |
| ARCL2018 | Early Medieval Archaeology of Britain | 1.0 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B Recommended for students also studying History subjects |
Terms 1 & 2 |
| ARCL2019 | Public Archaeology | 0.5 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B Recommended for students also studying Sociology subjects |
Term 2 |
| ARCL2022 | The Prehistoric Mediterranean | 0.5 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B |
Term 2 |
| ARCL2026 | The Emergence and Spread of Modern Humans | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| ARCL2028 | Current issues in archaeological theory | 0.5 | ARCL1003A or ARCL1003B |
Term 1 |
| DUTC4301 | Culture and Society of the Low Countries | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| ESPS2103 | Political Violence and Intrastate Conflicts |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| ESPS7102 | Politics and the Challenge of Globalisation | 1.0 |
Terms 1 & 2 |
|
| FREN2108 | France: Culture and Society | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| GEOG2009 | Environment and Society | 0.5 | GEOG1007 |
Term 2 |
| GEOG2014 | Development Geography | 0.5 | GEOG1007 |
Term 2 |
| GEOG2019 | Political Geography and Geopolitics | 0.5 | GEOG1007 |
Term 2 |
| GEOG2023 | Urban Geography | 0.5 | GEOG1007 |
Term 2 |
| GEOG2024 | Cultural and Historical Geography | 0.5 | GEOG1007 |
Term 1 |
| GERM2104 | Politics, Culture and Society in Germany | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| HIST**** | History of Ideas and Conceptual History | 0.5 | HIST1002 Recommended for students also studying Sociology, Philosophy and Politics subjects | |
| HIST**** | History of Specific Regions | 0.5 | HIST1002 Recommended for students also studying Geography and IR subjects | |
| HIST**** | History of Ancient World | 0.5 | HIST1002 Recommended for students also studying Archaeology subjects | |
| ITAL2114 | Language and Society in Italy since 1500 | 0.5 | ||
| LAWS*** | Intermediate Law course (in preparation) | 0.5 | LAWS1014 | |
| PHIL2032 | Applied Ethics | 0.5 | PHIL1016 |
Term 1 |
| PHIL2038 | Topics in Greek Philosophy | 0.5 | PHIL1016Recommended for students also studying History subjects |
Term 2 |
| PHIL2040 | Marxism | 0.5 | PHIL1016 Recommended for students also studying Sociology and Politics subjects |
Term 1 |
| PHIL2044 | Political | 0.5 | PHIL1016 Recommended for students also studying Sociology and Politics subjects |
Term 2 |
| POLS6001A/B | Introduction to British Politics | 0.5 |
Term 1 or Term 2 |
|
| POLS6004 | Changing Britain's Constitution | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| POLS6006A/B | Politics of the European Union | 0.5 | Term 1 or Term 2 | |
| POLS6007A | International Development |
0.5 |
Term 1 | |
| POLS6008 | Gender and Politics | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| POLS6009 | Global Environmental Politics | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| SCAN2225 | Nordic Politics and Society | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| SEEF2003 | Finland: Environment, Society and Culture | 1.0 | Terms 1 & 2 | |
| SEEE2008 | Vampires, Society and Culture | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| SESS2005 | Topics in Microeconomics | 0.5 | SESS1003 |
Term 2 |
| SESS2006 | European Macroeconomics | 0.5 | SESS1004 |
Term 1 |
| SESS2010 | Applied Econometrics | 0.5 | STAT6102 + SESS1003 or SESS1004 |
Term 1 |
| SESS2001 | Emerging Market Economies in Russia and Eastern Europe | 1.0 | SESS1003 & SESS1004 | Terms 1 & 2 |
| SESS3006 | Political Economy of European Integration | 1.0 | SESS1003 or SESS1004 | Not running in 2013/14 |
| SESS3001 | Growth and Convergence with reference to Russia and CEE | 0.5 | SESS2006 |
Term 2 |
| SESS3007 | Health Economics and Policy | 0.5 | SESS1003 |
Term 2 |
| SESS2102 | Politics & Society in Central & Eastern Europe | 1.0 | POLS6011 or SESS1202 or SESS1203 | Terms 1 & 2 |
| SESS2103 | Russian Politics and Society | 1.0 | POLS6011 or SESS1202 or SESS1203 | Terms 1 & 2 |
| SESS2105 | Democracy and Democratization | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| SESS3006 | Politics of EU Integration | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying IR and Politics subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
Year 3
| Code | Title | Units | Notes and prerequisite |
Taught |
| ANTH3028 | Gender, Language and Culture | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| ANTH3030 | Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race | 0.5 | Introduction to Social Anthropology I |
Term 1 |
| ANTH3053 | Temporality, Consciousness and Everyday Life | 0.5 | Introduction to Social Anthropology I + Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology | Not running in 2013/14 |
| ARCL3*** | Archaeology of Specific Regions | 0.5 | ||
| ARCL3047 |
Archaeological Law and Project Management |
0.5 | Public Archaeology. Recommended for students also studying Law subjects. |
Term 1 |
| ARCL3059 | The Archaeology of Chiefdoms | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Sociology, Philosophy and Politics subjects |
Term 1 |
| ARCL3060 | Ancient Societies of Amazonia | 0.5 | Current issues in archaeological theory. Recommended for students taking Sociology. |
Term 1 |
| ARCL3075 | Understanding Complex Societies | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| CIHD3001 | Global Health Policy | 0.5 or 1 |
Term 1 or Terms 1 & 2 |
|
| CIHD3002 | Health, Poverty and Development | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| CIHD3003 |
Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| CIHD3004 |
Global Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| CIHD3005 | Global Maternal & Child Health | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| CIHD3006 |
Anthropological Perspectives on Global Health |
0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| ECON3009 | Economics of Law | 0.5 | SESS2005 |
Term 2 |
| ECON7001 | Economics of Labour | 0.5 | SESS2005, SESS2010 | Not running in 2013/14 |
| ECON7003 | Money and Banking | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| ECON7004 | Economics of Industrial Relations | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| ECON7007 | Environmental Economics | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| ESPS7202 | Problems of Social Explanation | 1 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| ESPS7401 | War and Peace | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| GEOG3022 | Gendered Geographies | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| GEOG3025 | Cities and Modernity | 0.5 | ‘Methods in Human Geography’. |
Term 1 |
| GEOG3048 | Migration and Transnationalism | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Sociology subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| GEOG3059 | Popular Culture and Geopolitics | 0.5 | Political Geography and Geopolitics |
Term 2 |
| GEOG3060 | Scales of Inequality | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Economics and Sociology subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| GERMG020 | German Culture, Politics and Identity | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| HIST**** | History of Ideas and Conceptual History | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Sociology, Philosophy and Politics subjects | |
| HIST**** | History of Specific Regions | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Geography and IR subjects | |
| HIST**** | History of Ancient World | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Archaeology subjects | |
| ITAL4102 | Nation, Culture and Society in Italy, 1860-1915 | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| LAWS2004 | Jurisprudence | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying Philosophy subjects |
Term 1 |
| LAWS2009 |
EU Law and Human Rights |
1.0 | Recommended for students also studying IR, Politics and Philosophy subjects | Terms 1 & 2 |
| LAWS6102 | Environmental Law | 1.0 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| LAWS6304 | History of English Law | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying History subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| LAWS6342 | Criminology | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying Sociology subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| LAWS6701 | Roman Law | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying History subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| LAWS6702 | Public International Law | 1.0 | Recommended for students also studying IR and Politics subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| PHIL3031 | Global Justice & Health | 0.5 |
Term 2 |
|
| PHIL3033 | Philosophy of Maths | 0.5 |
Term 1 |
|
| PHIL3040 | Adorno: Art and Politics | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying Politics subjects |
Term 1 |
| PHIL3044 | Kant | 0.5 | Recommended for students also studying IR and Politics subjects | Not running in 2013/14 |
| SCAN 2225 | Nordic Politics and Society | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| SCAN2221 | The Nordic Welfare States | 0.5 | Not running in 2013/14 | |
| SESS3002 | International Trade | 0.5 | SESS1003 & SESS1004 |
Term 1 |
| SESS3005 | Topics in Financial Management | 0.5 | SESS2005 |
Term 1 |
| SESS3101 | Comparative Politics | 1.0 | Terms 1 & 2 | |
| SESS3102 | Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy | 1.0 | Terms 1 & 2 | |
| SESS3103 | European Security | 1.0 | Terms 1 & 2 |

