BA Sociology (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points overall with 15 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in Sociology (Placement Year), a sociology degree centred on social structures, power dynamics, and human societies. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, Policy Analysis, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes a dedicated work-based learning placement year in the third year, allowing students to gain professional experience in a graduate-level role. The first year introduces foundational concepts through core modules such as Thinking Sociologically, Researching Society: Principles and Practices, Framing Social Issues, and Public Sociology: Understanding and Creating Social Change. The second year builds research capabilities through Global Social Theory: Connecting Sociologies, Research in Action: Methods for Investigating the Social World, and Designing Sociological Research. Following the third-year placement, the final year focuses on advanced academic inquiry and culminates in the Sociology Independent Project alongside Advanced Sociological Theories and Applications.
Modules
- Thinking Sociologically
- Researching Society: Principles and Practices
- Framing Social Issues
- Public Sociology: Understanding and Creating Social Change
- Contemporary Social Issues 1: Power, Inequality and Everyday Life
- Contemporary Social Issues 2: Social Issues in a Changing World
- Explaining Criminology
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- Crime and Popular Culture
- A Brief History of Crime and Criminology
- British Cinema
- Foundations of Language
- English across Space and Time
- English in Use
- Language in Mind and Society
- Understanding Media and Culture
- Media, Power and Identity
- Transformations in Digital Media
- Screens and Selves
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Policy Lab
- Political Theory for a Troubled World
- British Politics: Political Ideas in Action
- Ethics: How Should I Live?
- Global Religions and Society
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- History of Philosophy: Resistance and Inclusion
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- Political Philosophy: How Should we Live Together?
- Global Social Theory: Connecting Sociologies
- Research in Action: Methods for Investigating the Social World
- Designing Sociological Research
- Race, Racism and Inequality
- Transnational Debates on Gender and Society
- Welfare States: Poverty, Policy and Politics
- Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture
- Youth Justice
- Organised Crime
- Cybercrime and Cybercriminality
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Digital Cultures
- Visual Cultures
- Classic Hollywood Genres
- Film Theory and Aesthetics
- Film, Gender, Race and Ideology
- Discourse Studies
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Theories of Power and the State
- Democracy, Dictatorship and Everything in Between
- Who Governs Britain? Policy, Politics and Political Change
- Global Superpowers
- Politics of the Global South
- Global Religions, Women and Gender
- Applied Philosophy: Decisions that Change the World
- Language, Communication and Knowledge
- Mind, World and Science
- Work Based Learning Year
- Advanced Sociological Theories and Applications
- Sociology Independent Project
- Environment and Society: Crisis, Justice and Change
- Health, Bodies and Social Reproduction
- Migration, Inequalities and Societies
- Green Criminology
- Gendered Harm and Justice
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Hate Crime
- Crimes and Harms of the Powerful
- Crime and Media
- Global Film Genres
- Film Industries, Practices and Movements
- Film Circulation, Exhibition and Audiences
- The Making of Media and AI Futures
- Media Industries
- Audiences, Fans and Participatory Cultures
- Mediating the Body
- Environment and Development
- Democracy Under Pressure
- Critical Political Theory
- Policymaking in the Real World
- Parliamentary Studies
- The Politics of Crises and the Future of Governance
- Russia and China
- Politics of Latin America and Africa
- Politics of the Middle East and Asia Pacific
- The Politics of Borders and Migration
- Philosophy and Popular Culture
- Philosophy For Times of Global Crisis
- State and Religion