BA Sociology
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 112 A level: BBC T Level: Merit BTEC: DMM GCSE: GCSE Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above) or equivalent qualification Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15, Merit: 24, Pass: 6 English language: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)
About this course
BA (Hons) Sociology, examining how societies are structured, change over time, and respond to inequality. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students may undertake an optional industry placement after the second year, and the final year includes an Independent Study research project alongside a work-experience placement module.
Modules
- Applied Professional Practice
- Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Thinking Sociologically
- Patterns of Inequality
- Making Modern Britain
- Media, Culture and Society
- ​​Investigating Society: Truth, Ethics and Justice​
- Capitalism, Culture and Class: Social Theory in Classical Modernity
- Researching Society 3: Statistics in Social Research
- Globalisation and Social Change
- Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
- Effecting Change
- Qualitative Research: Methods, Ethics and Application
- Independent Study
- Sociology in the World 2: Life After Graduation
- Youth Justice
- Working with Young Offenders
- Digital Futures and the Global Networked Society
- World in Conflict: War, Terrorism and Societies
- The Sociology of Politics and Protest
- Gender and Inequality in the Global Age
- Health, Illness and Social Justice
- Populism, Extremism & Violence
- Kittens, Cupcakes, and Capitalism: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century