46 University of Bath Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Social & Policy Sciences Why study Social & Policy Sciences at Bath?
Departmental reputation: with an excellent international reputation for the quality of its degree programmes and research, the Department of Social and Policy Sciences places great emphasis on high quality teaching.
Exciting environment: the Department was graded second in the country out of 67 other universities that entered the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. This means that our 300 undergraduates and thriving postgraduate community are taught by academics at the forefront of their field.
Flexibility: although our degrees allow students to specialise, they also allow considerable flexibility in order for students to develop their own intellectual interests, including units in Economics, Psychology, Politics, Management, Education and Modern Languages.
Options linked to departmental expertise: options offered by the Department include health, aging and death, childhood, the family, globalisation, European policy, social movements, work relations, corporate power, social justice, criminal justice, sexual violence, sexuality, racism and the body.
The Degree Programmes
Sociology: sociology is concerned with the study of society in all its aspects. It explores the relationships between individuals and society, and the powerful factors that shape everyday lives. It also examines the ways in which individuals try to change their lives.
Structure of the Social & Policy Sciences degrees
Social Policy Programme
Year 1
Sociology and Social Policy Programme
Social Sciences Sociology
Sociology with Human Resource Management
Social Problems and Social Policy; Introduction to Sociology; Principles and Uses of Social Science Plus options*
The Sociology of the Family
Social Justice
Social Policy and the State
Power and Policy
Year 2
Social Policy Evaluation
Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Methods Plus options*
Theoretical Issues in Sociology I
Social Justice
Social Policy and the State
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Power and Policy Social Research
Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Methods Plus options*
Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Methods Plus options*
Theoretical Issues in Sociology I
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Methods Plus options*
Theoretical Issues in Sociology I
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Human Resource Management
Employment Law
Understanding Industrial Behaviour
Employee Relations
Economic Sociology and Work Relationships
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
Plus options*
Year 3
European Social Policy
Health Policy and Politics
Final Year
Social Security Policy Dissertation Plus options*
Optional Placement
Theoretical Issues in Sociology II
European Social Policy
Dissertation Plus options*
Dissertation Plus options*
Theoretical Issues in Sociology II
Dissertation Plus options*
Compulsory Placement
Theoretical Issues in Sociology II
Human Resource Management II
Comparative Industrial Relations
Power and Commitment in Organisations
Strategies and Human Resource Management
Dissertation Plus options*
* Options in: Sociology, Social Policy, Management, Politics, Psychology, Economics, Education and Languages. Please see our Departmental website for full list of options.
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