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Except for the language courses, this programme is only taught in Dutch.
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In order to obtain the degree of Bachelor of Social and Economic Sciences the student
- should be enrolled for the programme in question under a diploma contract or under an exam contract to obtain a diploma
- should have taken all the exams that the programme encompasses
- should previously have registered for the programme with the examination board.
- should have acquired at least 180 ECTS-credits
The programme consists of 180 ECTS-credits.
In a model academic year, the student takes between 54 and 66 ECTS-credits.
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diploma of secondary education or equivalent on the basis of the stipulations of the institution's access procedure or a diploma of higher education of one cycle with a complete learning programme or a diploma of higher education of social promotion
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The general training objectives of the bachelor’s programme of Social and Economic Sciences are aimed at getting the student to:
Master general competences:
It is important that the mutidisciplinary focus of the bachelor’s programme of Social and Economic Sciences does not lead to skills linked to specific professional funtions. On the contrary, the multidisciplinary character of the programme should provide a competitive advantage in a professional environment that requires a combination of different perspectives such as for instance the domain of policy making. In this domain the determination of policy theory, strategy and instruments (or a mix of these) and of the policy organisation considers sociological, economic, legal and governance aspects. Moreover policy is getting more and more a multi-actors policy and co-responsibility, horizontal collaboration and interactive decision making become more important. In the social domain there is a demand for bridge builders who can comprehensively integrate insights from different disciplines for policy makers and the general public.
The bachelor should have a number of important academic skills such as logical thinking, analytical thinking, the ability to argue, the ability to critically deal with a variety of traditional and modern sources (e.g. scientific literature, research reports, policy documents, databases, etc.) and resolving unstructured problems into manageable research questions.
The bachelor is characterized by an open intellectual attitude, by the necessary interest in social developments and by receptiveness for insights from other disciplines. The bachelor is oriented towards insights into the causes, consequences and the mutual relations of important economic and social developments in modern societies. He/she is familiar with the Flemish, Belgian, European and global social context and is able to identify economic and social problems that manifest themselves in it and can take a critical stand about them.
The bachelor is able to recognise the ethical dimension of social problems – and in particular social and economic problems – and reflect upon them. This requires an independent, constructive critical attitude.
Master general scientific competences:
The programme wants to teach reasoning in the different disciplines rather than encyclopeadic knowledge. This means understanding paradighms and being able to apply them to social and economic problems that manifest themselves.
A lot of attention is given to methodological training, i.e. learning to handle econometric models, statistical techniques of analysis and methods of quantitative and qualitative research.
The bachelor should also be able to easily apply the acquired scientific insights and academic skills in any organisation. He/she should be able to critically evaluate the results of scientific research and translate these into practical policy recommendations. Based on his/her multidisciplinary training, the bachelor is well placed to estimate, consider and judge the social and economic consequences of policy decisions.
The bachelor should of course have the necessary communicative skills in Dutch to be able to work together with others. The focus is on skills to function in a multidisciplinary cooperation set up.
The bachelor should also have the skills to master two economically important foreign languages (English, French, German or Spanish) both orally and in writing.
The bachelor should be able to report the results of academic research at academic level. He/she should also be able to communicate orally about scientific research and to translate it for the policy and the public forum.
Get scientific-disciplinary basic knowledge
The bachelor gets a scientifically founded interdisciplinary training in social and economic sciences. This programme wants to provide students with insights in the current scientific economic and social knowledge needed to identify social and economic problems. The programme is strongly supported by scientific research.
The bachelor’s programme of social and economic sciences offers a broad (but not a superficial) basic training. Typical for the programme is the strong focus on general training where the attention goes mainly to social and economic analyses. This programme also wants to provide a study of law, philosophy and ethics, history, psychology and methodology in the general training of the bachelorstudent. A lot of attention goes to the policy and the functioning of different economic and social institutions.
This knowledge in the area of social and economic sciences contains:
Basic insights in economics and sociology, which means that the bachelor has knowledge of the main basic concepts and paradighms in sociology and economics. Different than in monodisciplinary programmes the bachelor should have an eye for diversity, contradictions and complementarity of sociological and economic perspectives.
The interdisciplinary skills of the bachelor are shown in the competence to formulate a question from one discipline in a question relevant to other disciplines (not just analytically but also in function of scientific communication with the specialisms). It is important to have the knowledge of integrating concepts and research methods and to be able to handle these analytically.
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Further studies with direct access
Master of Environmental Science, Political Communication, Sociology, Comparative and European Politics, Social and Economic Sciences, Culture Management, Communication Studies, Complementary Studies in Business Economics, International Business Economics and Management
Further studies with conditional access
Master of Applied Economic Sciences: Business Administration, Applied Economic Sciences: Economic Policy, Applied Economic Sciences: Business Engineering, Applied Economic Sciences: Business Engineering in Management Information Systems, Organisational Management, Culture Management, Applied Economic Sciences: Economic Policy, Multilingual Professional Communication, Nutrition and Rural Development, Urban and Regional Development
Erasmus Mundus: International Master of Science in Rural Development
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A student’s final result is a weighted average of the exam results the student has obtained for all the programme components of his/her training programme. In calculating the final result, the credits corresponding to the various programme components are used for weighting the results obtained for those components.
The final result is expressed as an integer out of 100.
A student whose final result is less than 50 out of 100 can never be declared successful.
A student is successful for the Bachelor’s programme if he/she has obtained credits for all the programme components in his/her training programme.
The examination board can declare a student who has not obtained credits for all the programme components successful if it can substantiate why it believes that the objectives of the programme have been achieved.
For more information see the Education and Examination regulation.
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