The Major / minor initiative launched last year has so far proved to be a great success, with over 70 first year students registering onto one of the 23 minor subjects.

As of 16 January 2014, 75 students have registered to take a minor throughout  the course of their degree. The most popular subjects are Psychology, Criminology, Applied Economics, History and Spanish.

The Major / minor initiative was launched in November 2013 to enable current first year students to graduate with a degree in both their main discipline and a minor subject. The minors are based in the Faculties of Humanities and Social and Human Sciences plus one inter-disciplinary minor, Sustainability, run by our award-winning academic Simon Kemp. Subjects on offer range from Archaeology and Creative Writing to Japanese and Social Policy.

In this, the first year of implementation, the minor subjects were open to students on eligible programmes in Humanities, Education, Geography, Social Sciences and Physics. Students were invited to open sessions in November during which they could ask questions and learn more about the minors scheme.

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