BSc Sociology
Entry requirements
GCSE: GCSE English language/literature and mathematics at grade C/grade 4 or above. Level 2 equivalencies will also be accepted. You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements as well as one of the requirements listed below. UCAS tariff: 104 UCAS points A level: 104 UCAS points T level: Merit BTEC: DMM Foundation Degree: Applicants will be considered for entry into year 1. Scottish Highers: 104 UCAS points Irish Leaving Certificate: 104 UCAS points IB: 30-31 points. Access to HE: 104 UCAS points from 45 credits at Level 3 Diploma In Foundation Studies (Sociology): Overall pass.
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, exploring social life and human connections. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The curriculum covers policing, human rights, and social justice alongside quantitative and qualitative research training, culminating in a final-year independent dissertation.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges in Crime and Society
- Criminal Justice and Human Rights
- Culture, Power and Deviance
- Social Divisions and Inequality
- Social Justice in Action
- Thinking Sociologically
- Research Problems and Methods: Making it count
- Research Problems and Methods: Qualitatively better
- Understanding the Social World
- Critical Perspectives on Policing
- Critical Victimology
- Environmental Justice
- Globalisation, Society and Crime
- Human Rights, Genocide and Resistance
- Internet, Risk and Security
- Policing and Social Control
- Violence in Society
- Dissertation
- Work: Practice and Reflection
- Bodies: Biology to Blushing
- Crime, Society and Racialisation
- Critical Approaches to (Counter) Terrorism
- Critical Perspectives on Policing
- Critical Victimology
- Digital Society
- Environmental Justice
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Human Rights, Genocide and Resistance
- Identities and Interactions
- Internet, Risk and Security
- Migration and Socio-Legal Dynamics
- Prisons and Punishment: Responses to Crime
- Probation and Rehabilitation
- Violence in Society
- The Criminal Justice Process
- Precarity and Insecure Lives