BSc Sociology with Politics and International Studies
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Politics and International Relations, studied part-time over six years. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a minor in Politics and International Studies and provides research methods training across quantitative and qualitative approaches. Students complete a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Introduction to Government and Public Policy
- Political Ideologies
- Introduction to Sociology
- The Sociological Imagination
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Contemporary Culture & Social Change
- Power and Politics in the UK and Ireland
- International Relations
- Populism
- Political Thought: Text and Context
- British Politics: Race, Class, and Policy
- Classical sociological theory
- Quantitative research methods
- Contemporary Ireland
- The Politics of Ireland since Partition
- Contemporary European Politics
- The Comparative Politics of Democracy and Dictatorship
- Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Memory and the Nation
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- The Politics of Identity
- Methodology, Ethics and Politics of Research
- Contemporary sociological theory
- Global Inequalities:Issues and Challenges
- Dissertation
- Conflict Transformation and Peace
- Media, Culture and Society
- Sociology of Education
- Professional Placement
- Sport in Society