BASS Sociology and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including at least one of the following A-Level subjects (preference will be given to applicants studying two of these subjects): Accounting; Economics; Finance; Business Studies; Development Studies; Government and Politics; Economic and Social History; Mathematics; Anthropology; Sociology; Philosophy; Religious Studies; English Language; English Literature; Geography; Psychology; Classical Civilisation; History; Archaeology; Communication Studies; Environmental Studies; World Development; Biology; Chemistry; Physics; Modern Languages
About this course
BASS in Sociology and Philosophy, focusing on the study of society and philosophical inquiry. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students can undertake a study abroad period for a semester.
Modules
- Critical Thinking
- Engaging With Social Research
- Crime and Society
- Criminological Research Methods
- Foundations of Criminal Justice
- Psychology, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Making Sense of Criminological Data
- An Introduction to Development Studies
- Microeconomics 1
- Macroeconomics 1
- Criminal Law (Humanities)
- Introduction to Ethics
- Studying Philosophy
- History of Philosophy
- Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Making Sense of Politics
- British Politics: Power and the State
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Introduction to International Politics
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Power and Culture: Inequality in Everyday Life
- Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective
- Key Ideas in Social Anthropology
- Intro to Ethnographic Reading
- Regional Studies of Culture: 1
- Regional Studies of Culture: 2
- Introduction to Business Anthropology: Consumers, Companies and Culture
- Digital Sociology
- Environment and Society
- Inequalities in Contemporary British Society
- Contested Foundations of Social Thought
- Contemporary Social Thought
- Global Social Challenges
- Getting Personal: Intimacy and Connectedness in Everyday Life
- Understanding Social Media
- Measuring Inequalities (Unequal Societies)
- Applied Statistics for Social Scientists
- Policing and the Police
- Explaining Crime and Deviance
- Modelling Criminological Data
- Understanding Punishment
- Criminology and Criminal Justice in Action
- Understanding Violence and Social Disorder
- Islamic Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Race
- Formal Logic
- Ethics
- 20th Century Analytical Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- Existentialism
- Hegel and Marx
- Politics by Numbers
- Security Studies
- Questions About International Politics
- Politics & Society in Britain Since 1940: From Blitz to Brexit
- Arguing About Politics: Political Theory in the World
- The Politics of Globalisation
- The Politics of Development
- Gender and Politics in Comparative Perspective
- The Politics of Policy Making
- Ideals of Social Justice
- How to Conduct Politics Research
- Injustice and Resistance
- Environmental Politics
- Comparative West European Politics
- Asia-Pacific Security
- Anthropology of Kinship, Gender and Sex
- Anthropology of Religion
- Political and Economic Anthropology
- The Ethnographer's Craft
- Materiality and Representation
- The Human and the Digital
- Social Network Analysis
- Qualitative Research Design & Methods
- Sustainability, Consumption & Global Responsibilities
- Global Migration
- Social Change in China
- Decolonising Sociology
- Social Class and Inequality in Britain
- Families, Relationships and Everyday Life
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- Racism and Ethnicity in the UK
- The Survey Method in Social Research
- Essentials of survey design and analysis
- Applied Statistics for Social Scientists
- Introduction to Population Development & Social Change
- Drugs and Society
- Comparative Criminology
- Journeys out of Offending
- Victims, Crime and Justice
- Understanding and Responding to Organised Crime
- Criminology and Mass Violence
- White-Collar and Corporate Crime
- Crime Mapping: an introduction to GIS and spatial analysis
- The Criminal Psychopath
- Dissertation Semester 1
- Dissertation Semester 2
- Dissertation (40 credit)
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Environmental Philosophy
- Philosophy of Action
- Phenomenology
- Advanced Topics in Aesthetics
- Language & Oppression
- The Politics of the European Union
- Morality and Markets
- The Politics and Philosophy of Nationalism
- Elections and Voters in Britain
- Liberalism and Empire
- Dimensions of Peace and Conflict: Disciplinary and Regional Approaches
- Political Morality and Dirty Hands
- Chinese Politics
- Public Policy Problems
- Gender, War & Militarism
- Africa & Global Politics
- War Memories and Reconciliation in East Asia
- Intimate Geopolitics of Global China
- Understanding Political Choice in Britain
- Knowledge Production in Peace-building: Practices and Processes
- Global Capitalism, Crisis and Revolt
- Contemporary Parliamentary Studies and the British Political Tradition
- Postcolonial Politics
- The International Political Economy of Trade
- Sex, Bodies and Money: Feminist, Queer and Intersectional Political Economy
- United States Foreign Policy: Dominance and Decline in a Complex World
- Race, Ethnicity, Migration
- Ukraine Rises: Democracy, Protest, Identity and War in Comparative Perspective
- Capitalism and Sexuality
- Decolonising Human Rights
- Global Politics of LGBTQ+ Rights
- Development, Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America
- Can Democracy Work?
- Chinese Political Economy in the Reform Era
- The Anthropology of Health and Wellbeing
- The Good Life: An Anthropology of Ethics
- Migrants, Borders and Im/mobilities
- Screening Culture
- Anthropology of Vision, Senses and Memory
- Food and Eating: The Cultural Body
- Extra-Terrestrial Anthropology
- Climate Anthropology
- Sociology of Life and Death
- Sociology of Human Animal Relations
- Cities and Urban Life
- Forced Migration
- Racism and Resistance in Education
- A Sense of Inequality
- Connections matter: Sociological Applications of Social Networks
- Power and Protest
- Social Thought from the Global South
- Art and Society
- Dissertation (20 credits)
- Dissertation B (40 credits)
- Theory & Method in Demography
- Network Analysis
- Answering Social Research Questions with Statistical Models
- Data Science Modelling
- Quantitative Text Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Causal Inference for Policies, Interventions and Experiments