Sociology BA Honours (L300)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• SOC1030 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to the Discipline
• SOC1031 Knowing in Sociology: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Epistemology
• SOC1027 Comparing Cultures
• SOC1029 Doing Sociology
• SOC1033 Understanding Everyday Life

You also take a further 20 credits, which may be the module below, or from other subjects within the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology or other areas of the University:

• SOC1032 Politics and Society

• SOC2058 Understanding Social Change and Transformation
• SOC2069 Researching Social Life I
• SOC2070 Researching Social Life II

You choose three optional modules from the following list:

• SOC2038 Conceptualising Gender
• SOC2056 The Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOC2067 Consumer Cultures: An Anthropological Perspective
• SOC2071 The Sociology of Childhood
• SOC2082 Politics of the Arts
• SOC2085 Refugees and Displacement: Borders, Camps and Asylum
• SOC2086 Crime, Culture and Society
• NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students

Other optional modules may also be available.

• SOC3073 Exploring Social Complexity
• SOC3097 Dissertation

You take 60 credits of the following optional modules:

• SOC3045 Regulating Sexuality
• SOC3077 Making People: Anthropology of Belonging, Life and Death
• SOC3078 Dreamworlds: Society and the Utopian Imagination
• SOC3085 Student Exchange
• SOC3089 Memory, Identity and Nation-building in Eastern Europe: The View from Anthropology
• SOC3090 Investigating the Body: Sociological Debates about the Social, Legal and Creative Management of the Human Body:
• SOC3091 CSI Newcastle: The Sociology of the Forensic Sciences
• SOC3092: Moral Dilemmas, Judgements and Debates: The Anthropology of Rights and Wrongs

Other optional modules may also be available.

Studying sociology equips you with skills such as critical thinking, the ability to analyse complex data and conduct social research, as well as communication, organisation and problem-solving skills, which are relevant to many different work environments.

Throughout your degree you will be encouraged to develop a diverse portfolio of knowledge and skills, and engage with issues and debates directly relevant to careers in many fields. Employers recognise that sociology graduates have independent research skills and often have an interest in working with people, and this is reflected in the types of jobs sociology graduates do.

Previous Newcastle University Sociology graduates can be found working across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Areas of employment include:

• the Civil Service
• education
• social work
• HR
• PR and marketing

Some graduates will continue to postgraduate level studies. Popular choices include Master's-level Sociology and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education.

Find out more about the career options for Sociology from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.