Sociology-BA

Students will develop a knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and fundamental issues within sociology.

• Introduction to Research
• Conceptualising Society

• Societies in Transition
• Candidates shall also study and be assessed in modules to the value of credits from open modules offered elsewhere in the School or by another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules to the value of credits offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study);

Students will build on and extend their sociological knowledge.

• Sociological Imaginations
• Social Research Methods.

• Self, Identity and Society
• Sociology of Social Exclusion
• Crime, Power and Social Inequalities
• Sport, Crime and Deviance
• Sports Development: Policies and Practices
• Modules to the value of credits from open modules offered by another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study)

Students will critically analyse and evaluate more complex issues in the discipline of sociology. Students will also undertake an in-depth, critical analysis of a chosen topic in sociology through their Dissertation.

• Dissertation

• Social Policy
• Sociology of Health and Medicine
• Drugs, Crime and Society
• Issues in Criminal Justice
• Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
• Sociology of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
• Cybercrime: Crime in the Information Age
• Urban Studies
• Rural Studies and Social Policy
• Sociology of Work and Professions
• SASS Community Placement
• Modules to the value of credits from those offered by another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study) or from open modules elsewhere within the School.

We are part of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme which encourages students to study for part of their course in a university of another EU country.

We currently have links with the universities of Helsinki in Finland and Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Students can also apply to the university-wide international exchange programme with universities in North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.