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Design your own bespoke degree in our flexible programme

Combined Honours in Social Sciences provides flexibility and choice across Durham’s breadth of world-renowned research-led education, allowing you to create a bespoke, academically ambitious degree programme suited to your individual interests, strengths and career plans.

We are committed to building a sense of belonging in the department.  All first-year students are matched with a peer mentor from second or final year, creating small micro communities within the cohort of students studying similar combinations of subjects.  We have a dynamic student society, academic opportunities such as internships or conference presentations which we support our students to participate in.

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What Is Combined Honours in Social Sciences?

Combined Honours in Social Sciences allows you to create your own bespoke programme suited to your individual interests, strengths and career plans. You can choose to study up to 4 subjects within Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

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Why choose Combined Honours?

You can combine modules from top-ranking departments in unusual ways, perhaps focusing on a particular area of interest from a number of disciplinary perspectives.

We support your studies with a range of workshops tailored specifically to the needs of Combined Honours students, with sessions on employability, CV writing and disciplinary differences in academic writing to ensure that you are equipped for success.

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Are you interested in doing a Combined Honours dissertation?

Combined Honours in Social Sciences (CHSS) Director Megan Bruce tells us about the new CHSS Dissertation module which saw the first final year CHSS students take it up this academic year!
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Exploring water scarcity in Israel, Palestine and Jordan: A summer of solo exploration.

Third year Politics, History and Arabic student Jemima Oakey tells us about her summer placement with EcoPeace!
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Combined Honours in Social Sciences

Durham University

Arthur Holmes Building

Lower Mountjoy

South Road

Durham

DH1 3LE

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 191 334 1016

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