BA Sociology with Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB To include.... IB: 6,5,5 at Higher Level with a minimum of 32 points overall.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma, Diploma and Subsidiary Diploma are all considered.. T Level: all subjects considered; Standard offer: Distinction overall with A in the Core Component.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with Year Abroad, a sociology degree focused on the study of social structures and institutions. Core topics include Social & Cultural Analysis, Research Methods, and Data Analysis. The course includes a dedicated year abroad taken between the second and final years. The first year covers core themes through Discovering Social Problems, The Sociological Imagination, and Social Research I. The second year builds theoretical and methodological grounding through Modern Sociological Theory and Social Research II, alongside optional topics such as Gender and Sexuality and Media and Society. The third year is spent studying abroad. The final year involves an independent Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation and advanced options like Mental Health and Society and Quantitative Data Analysis.
Modules
- Discovering Social Problems
- Sociology of Everyday Life
- The Sociological Imagination
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Introduction to Social Divisions
- Social Research I
- Modern Sociological Theory
- Social Research II
- Race and Racism
- Gender and Sexuality
- Poverty, Class and Inequality
- Media and Society
- Prisons, Punishment and Penality
- Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- Education, Policy and Social Justice
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Social Psychology
- Youth, Crime and Justice
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Year Abroad
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation
- Mental Health and Society
- Selling the Self? Sex, Gender and Consumer Culture
- Technology & Society
- Power, Control and Resistance
- Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
- Sociology of Success and Spectacle
- Crime and the City
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Policing Migration: victims, villains and global border regimes
- Professional Development
- Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
- Children as Citizens
- Quantitative Data Analysis