FASS Showcase - Exploring the Social and the Global

Room opens @ 1pm - Event Starts @ 1:30pm

This event will showcase FASS curriculum and aims to engage students by encouraging them to explore the themes and topics being discussed in an interactive way. 

This session will introduce to you what the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies stands for, how we approach the interconnections between research and teaching, and how we support our growing number of students. The eight Disciplines in the School include Development, Economics, Geography, Philosophy, Politics and International Studies, Religious Studies, Social Policy and Criminology, and Sociology. We have thriving undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum in all these disciplines. Collectively, we are well-equipped to tackle a wide range of global challenges, whether it’s environment and sustainability, migration and mobilities, peace and conflict, rich-poor gap, transnational organised crime, or global ethics. Each of the SSGS disciplines can contribute their own perspective to these challenges, collectively offering something that is more than the sum of the parts. As a relatively new and growing School, we are very keen to make sure that the research strengths that our academics bring directly inform the exciting and cutting-edge curriculum we offer.

This session is designed to introduce a brand new module beginning presentation in 21J, DD215 Social Research: Crime, Justice and Society. We will provide an overview of DD215 before discussing why it is an important and interesting module for students to study. In short, DD215 considers how researchers strive to better understand and make sense of the social world, as well as how they attempt to improve the societies in which we live. Studying DD215, students will not only advance their understanding of social research, but also find out about why gender, race and social class – key module themes – occupy a central position in so much social research. 

Further information coming soon.

This session will give you a taster of the new module DD218 Understanding Digital Societies. We will look at how society and digital technologies influence each other through the example of how migrants use digital technologies to build transnational networks.

This session introduces new postgraduate curriculum in Global Development. DD871 considers key challenges that shape processes of global change affecting us all, and which help us in understanding and addressing key development issues like environmental sustainability, migration, and technological innovation. We will reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it to think through the challenges of conflict, justice, governance and transformation. Exploring and debating these challenges provokes important questions about global development and our positioning within it.

In this session we will be speaking with Will Brown and Eddie Wastnidge who are chairing the production of a new Masters in International Relations. We’ll be exploring the big questions that the new qualification seeks to address, looking at the content covered and discussing why now is a great time to be studying IR at postgraduate level. 

In this session, we will present an overview of some new Economics qualifications: the diploma and MSc in Economics 

Academic research is interwoven throughout your learning experience – it’s what makes your modules exciting and relevant to the contemporary world. Learn more about how we integrate research into the teaching and why a research-led approach is essential to learning as a university-level student.

To raise students’ awareness of the range of careers that they could pursue with a criminology degree and how the OU’s Careers and Employability Services can support them with their career planning.