Education
The Social Sciences Connect Programme enables social scientists across the University of Warwick to deliver teaching that takes an in-depth look at society, asking thought-provoking questions of major social significance, finding solutions that are practical and create positive impact and transformative change, while focusing on student experience.
We believe that education should be distinctive, research-driven, and impactful. That’s why we’re forging new opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration in teaching and learning, while also strengthening connections between teaching and research.
Through our Social Sciences Connect Programme, we are developing a suite of sector-leading courses, bringing disciplines together to address complex global and societal issues. We are fostering interdisciplinary expertise across departments to expand our undergraduate offerings. Additionally, we are introducing a range of postgraduate programmes that draw on both synergies with research, and shared intellectual interests in areas such as Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Data Science. Our teaching and learning experiences will be at the leading edge of access, employability, and internationalisation. This will include practitioner participation, with access to professional experience and international opportunities.
By blending Warwick’s entrepreneurial spirit with a commitment to social justice, we are providing student experiences that are inclusive, innovative, and sustainable. Our goal is to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to address the most pressing local, regional, national, and global challenges of our time.
Our new courses
Human, Social, and Political Sciences BA
The course aims to encourage a cross-cutting, multifaceted, and critical understanding of theoretical and methodological debates in social science research, by developing your theoretical and conceptual interdisciplinary knowledge and by enhancing your understanding of empirical research across disciplines. Studying this interdisciplinary programme, comprising insights from various social science perspectives, will enable you to make sense of a world undergoing unprecedented social change and uncertainty, and to work towards solutions for complex societal and global as well as local challenges.
Unique aspects of this programme will be interdisciplinary learning, hands-on research opportunities on contemporary challenges, and work placement opportunities. You will explore cross-cutting areas such as: social justice, race and ethnic identities, ethno-national conflicts, artificial intelligence, climate change, social and political movements, gender, social and political theory, violence, religion, research methods.
Social Sciences with Data Science BA
Social Sciences with Data Science combines social inquiry with data analytics. This course is multidisciplinary, including subjects such as Sociology and Economics, with options in Politics and International Studies and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, among others. It is driven by offering a comprehensive understanding how data can be obtained, managed, and analysed to better explain social, economic, and human processes in contemporary societies.
Key questions addressed include: How can data help to explain complex social and economic processes? What is good data, and how can it be collected? How can data be analysed and presented effectively?
The course encourages a critical understanding of the role of data in data driven societies, by developing your skills in data collection, analysis, and presentation across disciplines. Studying this multidisciplinary programme, focusing on data skills, will enable you to make sense of data and to work with data towards solving social and economic problems.
Economics and Management BSc
Our BSc in Economics and Management at the University of Warwick is a perfect blend of two interrelated disciplines that enhance and complement each other, creating a unique opportunity for you to prepare for a career in consultancy, policy analysis, business, finance, civil service or international management.
As well as enhancing your career potential, the course will enable you to develop as a critically reflective thinker, able to analyse and interpret business-related problems and devise creative and enterprising solutions that straddle multi-disciplinary boundaries.
Together Economics and Management provide a comprehensive insight into the economic principles and managerial strategies essential for navigating and succeeding within the broader economic landscape. You will also have the choice to undertake a work placement during your third year, giving you the opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge in a real work setting before returning to Warwick for your final year of studies.
AI and Society MASc
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies' new MASc in AI and Society is an innovative, interdisciplinary course designed to enable students to respond creatively and critically to the rapidly evolving challenges of a world transformed by technological developments and processes. AI has emerged as one of the fastest evolving technologies of the contemporary era that is having profound impact on science, industry, public politics, the environment and everyday life and is thus opening challenges that require a rounded understanding of technology and society to be addressed.
This MASc course offers an analytical and critical approach to AI, as well as a technical and practical grounding that enables students to interrogate and develop AI-based technologies. Our modules will include a focus on “doing AI”, e.g. through coding, building, testing AI as well as through engagement with governance and public policymaking in relation to AI and technological innovation in society.