BA Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: BCC-BBC IB: We are happy to accept IB qualifications which achieve the required number of UCAS Tariff points.
About this course
BA (Hons) Sociology combines the study of power, society and everyday life with core research skills. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking and Social & Cultural Analysis. A 60-hour work placement is completed during the course, and a 40-credit dissertation serves as the final-year capstone.
Modules
- Sociology of the Everyday
- Introduction to Social Policy and Welfare
- Power in Society
- Introduction to Sociology and Social Theory
- Critical Issues in Sociology
- Exploring the Social World
- Language 1
- Becoming a Social Researcher
- Doing Social Research
- States, Conflict and Political Violence
- Self-Directed Study
- Digital Detectives
- Youth Studies: Key Concepts and Issues
- Children, Food and Sustainability
- Children’s Cultural Worlds
- Representations of Childhood and Popular Culture
- Youth Offending: Critical Perspectives
- Crime, Harms, Law and Justice
- Crime, Media and Criminology
- Work-based learning and Employability
- Dissertation
- Sociology of the Body and the Emotions
- Global Capitalism and its Discontents
- Childhood and Sexuality
- Critical Autism Studies
- Critical Migration Studies
- Issues of Professional Practice
- Work-based learning and Employability 2
- A Century of Crime and Its Contexts: Circa 1840-1940
- State Crime
- Justice, Rights and the State
- Gender and Power
- Global Antisemitism and Islamophobia
- Global and National Activist Movements
- A Is For Activism