BSc Sociology with Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: CCD IB: 24 points
About this course
BSc in Sociology. Core topics include Research Methods and Global & Comparative Perspective. The first year addresses social difference, stratification, and changes in British society, with later years offering a range of specialist topics. A year-long placement with an external organisation is included, and a three-year alternative without placement is also available.
Modules
- Contemporary Social Problems
- Thinking Sociologically
- Gender, Race, and Class: Social Differentiation and Stratification
- British Society
- Inequality
- Global Justice
- Introduction to Political Ideas
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Alternative Voices: Changing Perspectives of International Development
- Optional choices from the University-wide catalogue.
- Research Methods
- Sociological Theory
- Identity Politics
- Work Placement and Project
- Families and Society
- Learning Gender: Exploring the links between gender, education, and society
- Crime and the Media
- Global Philosophies
- Living Together: Social and Cultural Geographies
- The Media, Society, and Politics
- Global Historical Sociology
- Women, Crime, and Justice
- Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-war Britain
- Constructions of Childhood and Youth
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Optional choices from the University-wide catalogue.
- Professional Placement
- Dissertation in Sociology
- Global Justice
- Experiencing War
- Feminism and Political Theory
- Young People, Crime, and Justice
- Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe
- Marx, Durkheim, Weber
- Gender and Politics
- Spaces of Care and Wellbeing
- Prisons in Crisis
- Crimes of the Powerful