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BA Sociology

Newcastle University

Institution
Newcastle University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Sociology
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
L300
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA Honours in Sociology. Core topics include research methods. The programme concludes with a final-year dissertation in sociology and offers a student exchange opportunity. A range of optional modules in later years allows focus on specialist areas including crime, health, policing, and social inequalities.

Modules

  • Comparing Cultures: An Introduction to Anthropology
  • The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to the Discipline
  • Knowing in Sociology: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Epistemology
  • Understanding Everyday Life
  • Investigating Inequalities and Crime
  • Politics and Society
  • Theorising Social Worlds
  • Researching Social Life
  • This is How We Do It: Sociology Research Design and Proposal
  • Being Human: debates, questions and conversations in anthropology
  • Climate and Society
  • Sociology of Crime: Social Control in Neoliberal Societies
  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Refugees and Displacement: Borders, Camps, and Asylum
  • Dissertation in Sociology
  • Being Human: debates, questions and conversations in anthropology
  • Climate and Society
  • Regulating Sexuality
  • Critical Approaches to Policing and Security
  • States of Mind: Sociology and Mental Health
  • Digital People, Digital Worlds
  • Student Exchange
  • Investigating the Body
  • Racism and Society