BSc Sociology
Course Overview
Our BSc Sociology degree empowers you to investigate the social dynamics and structures that shape modern life, from everyday interactions to global transformations. You will develop a critical lens to analyze contemporary issues and challenge assumptions about how societies function and change. The program offers increasing flexibility, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific interests in the second and third years.
Key Program Highlights
- Develop a critical understanding of social order, change, and stratification in contemporary societies.
- Gain the analytical tools to engage with and challenge ideas on current social issues.
- Flexible curriculum allows for specialization in areas of personal interest during the final two years.
- Build a strong foundation in core sociological theories and research methods in the first year.
- Focus on applying sociological approaches to understand recent shifts in British and global society.
Course Overview
Our BSc Sociology degree empowers you to investigate the social dynamics and structures that shape modern life, from everyday interactions to global transformations. You will develop a critical lens to analyze contemporary issues and challenge assumptions about how societies function and change. The program offers increasing flexibility, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific interests in the second and third years.
Key Program Highlights
- Develop a critical understanding of social order, change, and stratification in contemporary societies.
- Gain the analytical tools to engage with and challenge ideas on current social issues.
- Flexible curriculum allows for specialization in areas of personal interest during the final two years.
- Build a strong foundation in core sociological theories and research methods in the first year.
- Focus on applying sociological approaches to understand recent shifts in British and global society.
Requirements
Modules
- Contemporary Social Problems
- Thinking Sociologically
- Gender, Race, and Class: Social Differentiation and Stratification
- British Society
- Inequality
- Global Justice
- Introduction to Political Ideas
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Alternative Voices: Changing Perspectives of International Development
- Research Methods
- Sociological Theory
- Identity Politics
- Work Placement and Project
- Families and Society
- Learning Gender: Exploring the links between gender, education, and society
- Crime and the Media
- Global Philosophies
- Living Together: Social and Cultural Geographies
- The Media, Society, and Politics
- Global Historical Sociology
- Women, Crime, and Justice
- Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-war Britain
- Constructions of Childhood and Youth
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Dissertation in Sociology
- Global Justice
- Experiencing War
- Feminism and Political Theory
- Young People, Crime, and Justice
- Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe
- Marx, Durkheim, Weber
- Gender and Politics
- Spaces of Care and Wellbeing
- Prisons in Crisis
- Crimes of the Powerful
