BSc Sociology (Digital Media)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, with digital media as a specialist focus. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Design & Creative Practice. The final year centres on a dissertation or major research project, and an optional one-year work placement can be taken between the second and third years.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- Digital Culture
- Global Communication
- Media Genres
- Researching Your World
- Sociology of Everyday Life: Issues in Contemporary Culture
- Colonialism, Migration and Global Racism
- Gangs, Street Culture and Crime
- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism
- Media Law, Ethics and Regulation
- Popular Culture and Creative Industries
- Understanding Cities and Inequalities
- Advanced Research Skills for Social and Political Sciences
- Dissertation
- Major Final Project
- 21st Century Media Bodies
- AI for Journalists, Campaigners and Activists
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- Cities, Culture and Social Change
- Digital Media, Social Movements and Change
- Global Migration
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Making the Modern World System
- Media Production as Activism
- Politics and Digital Cultures
- Political and Strategic Communication
- Political Satire and Comedy
- Working in the Creative and Cultural Industries