Welcome to the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
We have the largest number of undergraduate students at the faculty and manage the University Foundation Year and Combined Honours Programme.
The department consists of a number of subject teams currently working in the academic areas of Abuse Studies, Applied Social Studies, Childhood and Youth Studies, Crime Studies, Cultural Studies, English, Film and Television Studies, Geography, Health Studies, Justice and the Environment, Outdoor Studies, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology. You can come and study these subjects with us in a variety of ways on full time and part time undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.
All of these subject areas are offered within the undergraduate B.A./BSc Combined Honours Degree Programme, where you will normally study 2 subjects alongside each other – for example Abuse Studies and Childhood and Youth Studies; Crime Studies and Film and TV Studies; Pyschology and Sociology.
The Department also offers the following undergraduate degree programmes:
- BA (Hons) Abuse Studies
- BA (Hons) Analytical and Applied Philosophy
- BA (Hons) Childhood and Youth Studies
- BA (Hons) English
- BA (Hons) Studies in Film
- BA (Hons) Film, Television and Cultural Studies
- BSc (Hons) Outdoor Studies
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, Philosophy and Self
- BSc (Hons) Psychology of Sport and Exercise (BPS accredited)
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Postgraduate opportunities
Because of the multidisciplinarity of our academic portfolio we are in a unique position to offer a range of opportunities for postgraduate research from taught MA provision to M/Phil-PhD.
All of our academic staff are engaged in teaching within the department and all of our teaching is informed by our academic research and scholarly activities.
Other opportunities – more than just a degree…
The Department has strong regional, national and international links which provide our students with a wealth of opportunities and options (European Exchange Programmes). We have excellent links too with many of our local employers, agencies, schools and communities. Some of our students take the opportunity to work within the community as part of their studies in the private or public sector or join voluntary groups. In some of our undergraduate degree programmes these opportunities are actually part of the course – in particular, Outdoor Studies –with field trips and placements – national and international; Abuse Studies –where students work and study within the community and in Film and Television Studies - students have the opportunity right from year one to work with the British Youth Film Academy, which is located with us in the department, to make and distribute a film. Visit our Subject Pages to see the range of opportunities offered.