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BA Sociology with Media Studies

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Sociology with Media Studies BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
LP30
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in Sociology and Film Studies, combining interdisciplinary analysis of social structures and media cultures. Core topics include Research Methods. Modules explore 21st Century Sociology, Digital Societies, Media and the Real, and Social Research Methods: Analysing Quantitative Data. The programme includes optional practical experience through links with the UK's media industries.

Modules

  • 21st Century Sociology
  • Critical Reading and Writing for Sociologists
  • Foundations of Media and Digital Culture
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
  • Digital Technology, Media and Society
  • Gendering the Life Course
  • Making the Familiar Strange
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
  • Designing Social Research
  • Media, Memory, History
  • Media and the Real
  • A Sociology of Generations and Social Change? From Passive to Active Generations
  • Citizenship, Activism and Resistance
  • Digital Societies
  • Drugs, Crime and Deviant Leisure
  • Into the Lions Den: An Exploration (A)
  • Migration and Integration (Aut)
  • Sociology of Emotions and Mental Health
  • The Climate Crisis, Criminology & the Justice System
  • 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
  • Sociology Project
  • New Media Histories
  • Utopian Cultural Politics and New Horizons
  • (Im)mobilities and the Criminal Justice System
  • Class, Power and the State (Aut)
  • Coloniality, Racism and Inequality
  • Digital Activism and Citizenship in Datafied Societies
  • Identity and Interaction
  • Migration, Identity, and Home
  • Sexualities / Intimacies / Intersections (Aut)
  • Sociology of Family, Reproduction & Care (Aut)
  • The Death Penalty
  • Capitalism, Growth, and Ecological Crisis
  • Inequalities Across the Divides
  • Riots, Strikes, Revolts
  • Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Spr)
  • The Body (Spr)
  • Transcendence, Devotion and Desire