BSc Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Science in Sociology, a sociology degree centred on the study of social structures, institutions, and human interaction. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students can choose to study abroad for a semester at a partner university in Brazil, Canada, or China, take a minor subject alongside their main degree, or study modules from other areas such as languages or international relations. The first year introduces foundational concepts through modules such as Key Thinkers and Big Ideas: Foundations in Social Theory, Understanding the Social World, and Simple Liars, Damned Liars and Experts: the use of empirical research in social science. The second year develops methodological and theoretical skills via Introduction to Social Data Analytics, Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques, and Theorizing The Social World, alongside optional topics covering children, gender, and economic geography. The final year centres on independent research through the Dissertation and Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation, supported by optional modules spanning global terrorism, penology, and migration. Optional modules across later stages allow specialisation in areas like criminology, education policy, and global transformations.
Modules
- Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System
- Historical Perspectives: Deviance, Conflict, Censure and Control
- Inequalities in Everyday Worlds
- Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology
- Key Thinkers and Big Ideas: Foundations in Social Theory
- Simple Liars, Damned Liars and Experts: the use of empirical research in social science
- Understanding the Social World
- What's the problem? Debating responses to Contemporary Social Challenges
- Introduction to Social Data Analytics
- Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques
- Theorizing The Social World
- What's the Solution? How to Become an Agent for Change in Public Policy
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Comparative Youth Justice
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts
- Criminological Psychology
- Economic Geography
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Everyday Cultures: Identity, Technology and Nature
- Gender and Society
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Geographies of Wellbeing, Inequality and Place
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Social Stratification, Divisions and Resilience
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Victims or Perpetrators? Social and Psychological Perspectives on Older People and Crime
- Dissertation
- Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation
- Applied Social Quantitative Analysis
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Comparative Youth Justice
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Employability: Successful futures in Sociology and Criminology
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Gender and Society
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Geographies of Nature: food, animals and other nonhuman life
- Geographies of Social Justice, Welfare and Rights
- Global Terrorism and Political Violence
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Migration and Development
- Penology
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Sexuality and Intimacy
- Social Stratification, Division and Resilience
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Victims or Perpetrators? Social and Psychological Perspectives on Older People and Crime
- Violent and Sexual Offenders