Sociology
BSc (Hons) Sociology BSc (Hons) Sociology and Cultural Studies BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology
What’s it about?
Sociology is the study of modern society. This includes looking at everything from fleeting moments of mundane social interaction, for example asking a stranger for directions in the street, to wide-scale global issues that affect our everyday lives, such as the impact of capitalism on the Western world and beyond. The discipline looks at how society is structured, how it functions, and what factors lead to its growth, development, regulation and change. As a science, sociology considers how the social reality in which we live each second of our everyday lives is available for examination and analysis, what methods we can use for investigating it, and what kind of statements we can ultimately make about it.
What will I learn?
Sociology This is a single honours programme. By studying on this programme you will learn about the main principles that shape social life and human behaviour. You will learn about key sociological theories that will allow you to understand, explain and even try to predict social activity and organisation. You will also learn essential research skills which will enable you to apply this knowledge and conduct scientific sociological investigation over the course of your studies and beyond.
Modules include: • Academic Skills and Practice • Social Divisions and Inequality • Researching Social Life • Thinking Sociologically • Modernity and its Discontents • Sociology of Work, Employment and Unemployment
• Visual Representation • Economic and Political Significance of Kinship
• Sociology of Organisations
Sociology and Cultural Studies This programme is a major/minor programme. You study sociology for two thirds of the programme and cultural studies for the remaining third. In addition to key sociological issues, the cultural studies element brings together the disciplines of English and sociology and reflects a shared interest in the relationship between society and culture.
Modules include: • Researching Social Life • Social Divisions and Inequality • Thinking Sociologically • Culture, Power and Identity • Female Gothic • African Texts • Cinema and Psychoanalysis • Sociology of Embodiment • Readings in Crime and Deviance
Sociology with Criminology This is a joint honours programme. By studying on the programme you will learn about the main principles that shape social life and human behaviour, with a particular focus on crime matters. You will learn about key sociological and criminological theories, and develop an understanding of social and criminalised behaviour. You will also learn essential research skills which will enable you to apply this knowledge and conduct scientific sociological and criminological investigation over the course of your studies and beyond.
Modules include: • Academic Skills and Practice • Social Divisions and Inequality • Researching Social Life • Thinking Sociologically • Criminal Justice Institutions • Ethnicity and Crime • Surveillance, Prisons and Social Control
How will I learn?
Teaching is delivered through a combination of lectures, workshops, seminars and structured independent study. There will be the possibility of a voluntary work placement during year 2 of your programme. In the final year of study there are opportunities for you to work independently on a dissertation or an enterprise project (work-based learning).
Can I get work experience?
In years 2 and 3 you have the option of taking modules that involve applying academic knowledge and skills to issues in everyday life. This may involve, for example, spending time in a local unit for children at risk of homelessness or acting as a mentor for young offenders. Students often use these modules as a way of exploring career interests or as a way of building the experience required for some careers.
We have links with European universities. Teaching is in English and all EU exchanges are supported by an Erasmus grant. We also have links with universities further afield, in the US and Australia.
Where can I get a job?
Our graduates enter a wide range of careers including commerce, management and administration, local government, and the police force. Others undertake postgraduate vocational training, for example in teaching, law, journalism or social work. Some go on to further academic study, obtain their PhDs and become professional sociologists/ criminologists.
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