B.A. Politics and Sociology (Hons)

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• SOC1032 Politics and Society

• POL1045 Truth, Lies and Politics

Optional modules

You choose two Sociology modules from the list below:

• SOC1027 Comparing Cultures

• SOC1030 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to the Discipline

• SOC1031 Knowing in Sociology: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Epistemology

• SOC1033 Understanding Everyday Life

You choose two Politics modules from this list:

• POL1017 Governing Under Pressure: The Politics of the UK and EU

• POL1032 Introduction to International Politics

• POL1046 Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century

• POL1047 Power, Participation and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives

• POL1048 Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

You take the following compulsory module:

• SOC2069 Researching Social Life I

If you plan to do a sociology dissertation in your final year you also take the following:

• SOC2070 Researching Social Life II

Optional modules

You take three modules from the list below.

• POL2012 Politics of the Middle East

• POL2022 Government and Politics of the USA

• POL2034 The Politics and Policy of the European Union

• POL2078 Critical International Politics

• POL2082 Political Violence and the Modern State

• POL2087 Contemporary Russian Politics

• POL2088 The Politics of Africa

• POL2091 The Politics of Happiness

• POL2092 Party Politics: Quantitative Analysis of Parties, Systems and Voter Choice

• POL2093 Politics, Participation and Citizenship in the Digital Age

• POL2094 The United Nations: An Introduction to International Organisation and Global Governance

You take two modules from the list below (unless you have selected SOC2070 above, in which case you take one module from the list below):

• SOC2038 Conceptualising Gender

• SOC2056 The Sociology of Health and Illness

• SOC2058 Understanding Social Change and Transformation

• SOC2067 Consumer Culture: 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

You may substitute 20 credits of Politics modules or 20 credits of Sociology modules (with approval of the degree programme director) for the following:

• NCL2007 Career Development

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

You choose one of the following dissertation modules:

• POL3046 Dissertation in Politics

• SOC3097 Dissertation in Sociology

Optional modules

If you are doing your dissertation in sociology you'll take 60 credits from the list below.

If you are doing your dissertation in politics you'll take 20 credits from the list below.

• POL3059 Democracy and the Constitution

• POL3077 Global Poverty and Global Politics

• POL3078 Britain and the European Union

• POL3079 The Government and Politics of Italy

• POL3092 Political Parties and Elections in the UK

• POL3098 War, Genocide, Terror: Understanding Organised Violence

• POL3099 Power, Security and Protest in the Middle East

• POL3100 History of World Political Thought

• POL3104 The Fall and Rise of China

• POL3106 Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies

• POL3108 Politics of the Far Right in Europe

• POL3109 Gender, Campaigns and Media

• POL3110 International Organisation and Diplomacy

• POL3111 UK Parliamentary Studies

• POL3112 Revitalising British Democracy

If you are doing your dissertation in sociology you'll take 20 credits from the list below.

If you are doing your dissertation in politics you'll take 60 credits from the list below.

• SOC3045 Regulating Sexuality

• SOC3073 Exploring Social Complexity

• 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

• SOC3090 Investigating the Body

• SOC3091 CSI Newcastle: The Sociology of the Forensic Sciences

• SOC3092 Moral Dilemmas, Judgements and Debates: The Anthropology of Rights and Wrongs