Bachelor of Social Sciences

• Have you always wondered what makes us so susceptible to social media news?
• Do you ask yourself why young people are taking to the streets en masse against climate change today?
• Do you worry about how society should deal with growing diversity?
• Do you want to think about how citizens can regain confidence in the political system?

Then you are definitely in the right place at our Faculty School! 

In our brand new Bachelor's program in Social Sciences, you will immerse yourself in the fascinating, complex and ever-changing relationship between people and society. You focus on three important cornerstones of our contemporary and future society: digitalization, diversity and democracy. You make the difference as a social scientist!

The Faculty School for Social Sciences wants to educate students who are fascinated by the societal challenges or 'grand challenges' of our contemporary and future society and who can make a difference themselves. The students not only acquire the scientific knowledge that is necessary to understand these challenges and opportunities, but also critically and actively deal with them. Three challenges are central: digitalisation, diversity and democracy. The broad region around the university is the living lab in which we identify and analyze these challenges and look for creative solutions and answers.

Thanks to the case-oriented teaching model, students actively work with the subject matter. Concepts, theories and methods are presented on the basis of concrete, realistic and current cases. By interacting with each other, students develop all kinds of competences that will come in handy in their professional lives.

Education at the Faculty School of Social Sciences is fed by the research group Research for Digitalisation, Diversity and Democracy (R4D). The research group conducts interdisciplinary research on themes related to digitalisation, diversity and democracy.