BA English and Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level, including 6 in English at Higher Level and 5 points in Mathematics at Standard Level
About this course
BA in English and Sociology, a degree spanning sociology and English literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete a final-year project. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as Reading Between the Lines, Literature, Culture and Critique, Formations of Coloniality and Modernity, and Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory. The second year builds core competencies with Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture, Body Language: Literature and Embodiment, Central Problems in Sociology, and Sociology and Social Policy Research methods. Optional modules allow students to explore diverse areas such as Crime, Law and Regulation, Disability Studies: An Introduction, American Words, American Worlds, and The Sociology of Gender. The final year centres on the compulsory Final Year Project alongside specialised optional modules like Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI, Global African Writing, Sociology of Consumerism, and Protest and Social Movements.
Modules
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Formations of Coloniality and Modernity
- Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory
- Understanding and Researching Contemporary Society
- Identities and Inequalities
- Modern Fictions in English
- Race, Writing, Decolonization
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Central Problems in Sociology
- Sociology and Social Policy Research methods
- Crime, Law and Regulation
- Disability Studies: An Introduction
- Sociology of Culture
- The Sociology of Religion
- The Sociology of Gender
- Crime, Race and Ethnicity
- Debates in Childhood & Youth
- Sociology and the Climate Crisis
- Social and Public Policy beyond the University
- Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe
- Renaissance Literature
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660-1830
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- American Words, American Worlds
- Contemporary Literature
- Final Year Project
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media
- Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI
- Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
- Global African Writing
- Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Language of the Media
- Postcolonial London
- Refugee Narratives
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Shakespeare
- Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir
- Quantitative Social Research
- Disability and Development
- Research Skills for your Dissertation
- State Crime and Immorality
- Contemporary Children, Young People and Families
- Global Terrorism and Violence
- The Social Life of Data
- Gender, Technologies and the Body
- Sociology of Consumerism
- Protest and Social Movements
- Ethnicity and Popular Culture