BA Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 32 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Sociology, exploring social life and human behaviour over three years of full-time study. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course culminates in an undergraduate research dissertation on a sociological topic chosen by the student.
Modules
- Rethinking Society
- The Sociological Imagination
- Introducing Social Policy
- Digital Society
- Introducing Criminology
- Comparative Politics
- Philosophy and The Good Life
- Visualising the Social World
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- Crime and Society
- The Power of Social Theory
- Social Inequalities and Diversity
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Quantitative Research Skills
- Welfare in Theory and Practice
- Northern Ireland: Identities, Ideologies & Futures
- Questions for an Ageing World
- Theory Counts
- Understanding Gender and Migration
- Race, racism and Colonialism
- Level 2 Sociology Careers and Placement Preparation Module
- Research Project and Dissertation
- Issues in Contemporary Irish Society
- Disability and Society
- Modern Families: Intimate and Personal Relationships
- Religion: Death or Revival?
- Emotion, Power, and Politics: The Political Sociology of Emotions, Trump, Brexit, and Populism
- Social Identity: Differences and Inequalities
- Modelling the Social World
- The cultural politics of memory in a global perspective
- The sociology of protest and revolution
- Sociology Placement