BA History and Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology and History, combining sociological theory with historical analysis across three years of full-time undergraduate study. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can choose from a range of optional modules covering historical periods, social change, and cultural themes.
Modules
- 21st Century Sociology
- The Early Modern World
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
- Making the Familiar Strange
- The Making of the Modern World
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
- Designing Social Research
- Historical Consultancy
- Engaged Public History
- A Sociology of Generations and Social Change? From Passive to Active Generations
- Citizenship, Activism and Resistance
- Connections and Currents in the Early Modern Atlantic
- Digital Societies
- Drugs, Crime and Deviant Leisure
- Freedom and Power in the American Century
- Into the Lions Den: An Exploration (A)
- Migration and Integration (Aut)
- Sociology of Emotions and Mental Health
- The Climate Crisis, Criminology & the Justice System
- The People's Century? Britain after 1914
- 1661: Slavery in English America
- 1776: The Enlightenment
- 1857: Indian Rebellion
- 1899: Apex Empires, Savage Wars
- 1942: Holocaust
- 1948: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- 1953: Monarchs and Murders
- 1959 Havana: Revolution in Latin America
- 1968: Rivers of Blood
- 1984: Thatcher's Britain (Observing the 1980s)
- 2015: Fortress Europe and the Migration Crisis
- Class, Culture & Conflict: A View from The Inside
- Classical Sociological Theory
- Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
- Education and Inequality
- Precarity and the Politics of Work (Spr)
- Social Research Methods: Analysing Quantitative Data
- The Alchemy of Race and Racism (Spring)
- The Sociology of Human Rights
- History Dissertation
- Sociology Project
- (Im)mobilities and the Criminal Justice System
- Britain and the Second World War
- City on a Hill: Faith and the American Project
- Class, Power and the State (Aut)
- Coloniality, Racism and Inequality
- Debating Democracy in the Long 19th Century
- Digital Activism and Citizenship in Datafied Societies
- Freedom Now! The African-American Freedom Struggle After 1945
- Genocide
- Guns, Germs and Mai Tais: Culture and Imperialism in the Pacific
- Identity and Interaction
- Migration, Identity, and Home
- Palestine from Balfour to Nakba
- Post-Rave Britain, 1988 - present
- Producing History
- Queer Archives
- Sexualities / Intimacies / Intersections (Aut)
- Sociology of Family, Reproduction & Care (Aut)
- Technology and the Human
- The Death Penalty
- The French Empire and Its Aftermath
- The Global First World War
- The United States in the Middle East, 1917-Present
- Witches and Witch-Hunts
- Beauty, Fashion and History
- British Childhood, Past and Present
- Capitalism, Growth, and Ecological Crisis
- DIY History
- Emotions
- Inequalities Across the Divides
- Life Writing and Life Histories
- Migrant Ecologies
- Objects and History
- Resistance
- Riots, Strikes, Revolts
- Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Spr)
- The Body (Spr)
- Transcendence, Devotion and Desire