Congratulations on your offer to study Social Sciences!

This is where your journey as a King's Social Science student starts.

Welcome to your on demand offer holder hub – where you can access the information and insight you need, whenever you need it. From your course overview to taster lectures to videos from current students – it's all here!

Don’t forget you can contact your unibuddy at any time with questions you might have:

• Katrina, Social Sciences BA
• Meghan, Social Sciences BA
• Danielle, Social Sciences BA

* Although this page was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check our website or contact us directly for the very latest information.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Social Sciences courses.
• Go through our resources where we hear from our students and teaching staff about studying Social Sciences at King's. 
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current Social Sciences students unibuddy.
• Join us in-person for the Undergraduate Offer Holder Event on Strand Campus on Saturday 12 April 2025. More details to come!

Understanding your offer

I've received an offer - what next?

You might have received one of two types of offer.

• Unconditional Offer: An offer made without any prerequisites or requirements that must be fulfilled.
• Conditional Offer: An offer granted on the condition that specific criteria or requirements are met before you can secure your place on the selected course.

Step 1

Read your offer letter carefully. If there is anything you don't understand or want to question, please contact the Admissions Office through your King's Apply account.

You then need to decide whether or not you wish to accept the offer from King's. The UCAS system allows you to respond to an offer in three ways:

• Firm acceptance

• Insurance acceptance

• Decline

For a detailed explanation of these responses, and deadlines to respond, see UCAS guidance.

In your UCAS Hub account you will be able to see the deadline for responding to your offer.

Step 2

If you decide to accept an offer from King's, in the spring and summer you will receive details of offer-holder webpages and events to help you make your decisions and prepare for your start at King’s.

You can continue to contact the Admissions Office with any queries though King's Apply.

Tuition fees and funding

More information about fees can be found on our fees and funding pages.

International

If you are an international student, you can find more information about Visas and support here.

For more information, visit our advice pages.

About your course

If you are looking for more information about your course, you can find this on the main Social Sciences BA page.

Module lists

Module lists for the next academic year can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' Section of the page. You can use the drop down to select the year that you would like to see the required and optional modules for.

Assessment information

If you want to know more about how your course is assessed, this can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' section of the course page.

Study Abroad

Find out more about our study abroad options here

• • Study Abroad

Course Overview: Introduction to the Social Sciences 

Watch our videos below to learn more about our Social Sciences courses.

Social Sciences BA Offer Holder event - Watch our recent event where staff and students answered your questions.

Chat to our programme director Clare Coultas

Hear from our graduates!

We spoke to some of our graduates from the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy about their experience and their plans for after graduation. Take a look at the video below and hear about their time at King's.

Want to find out more about what it's like to be a Social Science student?

Chat to our students on Unibuddy:

• Katrina, Social Sciences BA
• Meghan, Social Sciences BA
• Danielle, Social Sciences BA

Join Stefi as she takes us along for a day in her life as a Social Sciences BA student at King's.

Watch our online taster sessions to get a feel for what it's like to study Social Sciences here at King's. Our first video includes both a brief summary of the programme and a brief lecture entitled ‘Social mobility, inequality and the good society’. Additionally, we have an Activism and Democracy taster lecture with Dr Farhan Samanani. 

Colourism is an important issue to tackle, and thanks to Dr Aisha Phoenix’s research with Dr Nadia Craddock, the UK has made more academic progress on this in the past decade.

In this episode of King’s Conversations we deconstruct the lesser-publicised issue of colourism, skin shade prejudice, the significant impact of colourism on physical and mental wellbeing, and what steps can be taken to change societal attitudes.

Chat to our team about the course.