We offer a small suite of options, with 3 or 4 modules to choose from each year of your undergraduate degree. 

Year 1 modules

  • Activism and the Anatomy of Change: Explore how ordinary people drive social and political change by analysing movements, activists, and strategies - and proposing new ideas yourselves.

  • Global Challenges: Sustainable Innovation: Work in teams to explore major issues facing the world today, understand them and innovate to improve them.

  • The Science of User Experience: Explore the nature of human experience, and why it is so necessary to understand the science behind experience in order to innovate, influence, or create lasting change in the world.

Year 2 modules

  • Global Village: Innovation Challenge: Research sustainable development issues within a specific community and design a solution for a real-world humanitarian problem.
  • Global Village: Visual Arts Challenge: Research sustainable development issues within a specific community and create an art exhibit inspired by that community.
  • My World: Be Happy: Explore the concept of happiness and design and test a variety of measures to improve happiness in your own life

Year 3 & 4 modules

  • Sustainability in Practice: Use real-world volunteering experiences to reflect on critical theories of social and environmental sustainability and propose new ideas for change.
  • My Life, My Future: Explore who you are and want to be as a person, using critical and cultural theory to understand your place in the world.
  • People, Cultures and Creating Change: Explore how understanding yourself and others can increase your impact as a Change Maker.
  • Change Makers Independent Project: Follow up your own interests in a global issue, such as human sustainable development or environmental stewardship, with an extended independent project of your own design.

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Feedback from Change Makers Students:

"Taking the module was really fun, the classes were very relaxed and due to the nature of the module everyone was like-minded so it was quite easy to openly talk about very involved and heavy ideas regarding the critical theories - it was a safe space and felt inclusive. Breaking up the sessions into theory vs practical/reflective task was an interesting way to lighten the load of the heavier topics whilst also reinforcing our ability to reflect in preparation for the final project."
"I was worried that I'd be too nervous to talk openly about my own life with the class but because it was such an accepting space, after acclimating, it was quite easy to talk about more personal topics, especially when it came to starting the final project since that's a very easy gateway into starting a conversation about what people are working on and sharing your own progress." (Orcan: My Life, My Future)