B.Sc. Social Policy and Sociology

Bachelor's degree

In Cardiff

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Cardiff (Wales)

Sociology and Social Policy BScEcon (Joint Honours) gives students the opportunity to study wider society, combining with an element of social and governmental policy. The School of Social Sciences is an internationally recognised centre of high quality teaching and research, with one half of all its research rated as either world-leading or internationally excellent in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Students will enjoy superb teaching and staff-student relationships, whilst harbouring vital transferable skills for a global economy.

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Cardiff
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Cyncoed Campus, Cyncoed Rd, CF23 6XD

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Subjects

  • Sociology
  • Social Science
  • Social Policy
  • Teaching
  • Joint
  • Global
  • Skills and Training
  • School

Course programme

Course Content First Year Modules

Year One introduces the pivotal ideas and approaches of the discipline. Single Honours Sociology students, and those doing a BScEcon Sociology Joint with another subject currently take compulsory modules.

  • Sociology, Society and Social Change: this covers a range of key topics such as work, class and gender, as well as addressing global developments in contemporary societies.
  • Key Ideas in Social Science traces the origins of social scientific theories and introduces the work of key thinkers in a range of social science disciplines.
  • Introduction to Social Science Research introduces the principles and skills that underpin social science research.

Remaining modules comprise introductions to a selection of social science disciplines, including criminology, education, social and developmental psychology, and social policy.

Second Year Modules

Single Honours students currently take certain core modules (marked with an asterisk) which consolidate their understanding of the discipline’s theories and methodology. They complete their programme by choosing modules from a varied list which offers them many opportunities to Develop specialised knowledge and expertise

  • Cultural Sociology
  • Ethnography and Everyday Life
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
  • Gender Relations and Society
  • Inequality and the Division of Labour
  • Migration, 'Race' and Ethnic Relations
  • Social Research Methods
  • Social Theory
  • Working Knowledge: Analysing & Experiencing Employment (With Placement)
Final Year Sociology Modules

The final year modules are informed by cutting edge research-based teaching and they reflect the sociological strengths within the school. Most sociology students will complete a dissertation in a special field of interest and all sociology students (single and joint) currently take at least at least three modules from this list:

  • Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine
  • Globalisation and Social Change
  • New Frontiers in Sociology
  • Metropolis: Urban Life and Consumer Culture
  • Power, Culture and Identity
  • Digital Sociology

B.Sc. Social Policy and Sociology

Price on request