BSc Sociology and Education
This degree programme is an opportunity to study both Education and Sociology within an interdisciplinary social sciences context.
Our Education teaching is informed by our research in education and the latest developments in policy and practice, encompassing aspects of culture and identity, childhood and youth, gender and ethnicity, and social justice and inclusion.
Sociology is dedicated to the study of social life as found in groups, institutions and societies. It provides the critical tools for handling the analysis of all aspects of social conduct, from face-to-face interactions to how economic forces shape and are shaped by global society.
This course uses a wide range of approaches to help you learn the methods and ideas needed to develop a deep understanding of the social, historical, political, economic and developmental contexts of education and to make your own contribution to understanding and improving society.
This degree programme is an opportunity to study both Education and Sociology within an interdisciplinary social sciences context.
Our Education teaching is informed by our research in education and the latest developments in policy and practice, encompassing aspects of culture and identity, childhood and youth, gender and ethnicity, and social justice and inclusion.
Sociology is dedicated to the study of social life as found in groups, institutions and societies. It provides the critical tools for handling the analysis of all aspects of social conduct, from face-to-face interactions to how economic forces shape and are shaped by global society.
This course uses a wide range of approaches to help you learn the methods and ideas needed to develop a deep understanding of the social, historical, political, economic and developmental contexts of education and to make your own contribution to understanding and improving society.
Requirements
Modules
- Understanding and Solving Educational Problems
- An Introduction to Education
- Introduction to Social Science Research
- Key Ideas in Social Science
- Introduction to Sociology
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Social Research Methods
- Sociology of Education
- What Happens in Schools: Assessing Policy in Practice
- Children and Childhood
- Contemporary Inequalities
- Evaluating Social Practice, Policy and Innovation
- Focus Groups and Interviews
- Knowing the Social World - Online and Offline Surveys
- Gender Relations and Society
- Ethnography and Everyday Life
- Cymdeithas Gyfoes yng Nghymru / Contemporary Society in Wales
- Digital Social Research: Theory and Methods
- Race and Racism
- Damcaniaethu a Dadfeilio'r Gymdeithas Gyfalafol
- Social Theory
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
- Dissertation
- Analysing Social Change
- Radical Education
- Work and Skills in the 21st Century: an international perspective
- International and Comparative Social and Public Policy
- Equality and Social Justice in a Globalised World
- Power, Politics and Policy
- Sociology on the Move
- The Sociology of Stigma
- Environment and Human Health
- Reflections on Education: Theory into Practice
- Live Theory
- Decolonising the Social Sciences
- Comedy, Modernity & Social Theory
- Monsters and Mysteries
