BA (Hons) Media and Sociology

University of Wolverhampton

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    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Wolverhampton

This course offers you the chance to analyse and understand the complexities of society and culture, in their historical and contemporary context. During your studies, you will learn about those concepts, theories and methods essential to what we call a 'sociological imagination', and enable your understanding of the inter-relationships between media and culture.

Using traditional and enhanced electronic forms of learning, you will develop your skills for gathering evidence and applying theories to a range of cultural and sociological issues. In the process, you will be encouraged to share ideas and be intellectually enterprising. You will also have the opportunity to do volunteer work in the local community an experience that allows you to apply the skills you have acquired in the classroom to a range of social, cultural and media-based settings, deepens your appreciation of civic responsibility and enhances your opportunities for employment.

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Wolverhampton (West Midlands)
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Wulfruna Street, WV1 1LY

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About this course

Your first year provides an introduction to the study and practice of Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies. You will learn key concepts used in these disciplines and apply them to the study of current institutional arrangements, media forms and cultural practices. You will study, for example, the nature of the 'Sociological Imagination', and 'Media, Culture and Society'. Culture is understood in its widest sense as anything that produces or reproduces meaning. Consequently, you will study a wide range of media and cultural phenomena from soap operas and social network sites to fashion and food. You will also have the opportunity to study an interdisciplinary module, such as 'Popular culture' or the 'Holocaust'. You may also study a language, or volunteer in the community.

In Year 2, your programme explores key theoretical debates and methodological approaches within each of the disciplines, In Sociology, you will also have the opportunity to study, for example, theoretical debates within the discipline, the processes of 'Making Gender', and 'Family Diversity'. From Media and Cultural Studies, you can take modules on 'Contemporary British Culture' and 'Investigating Culture'. You can also study an interdisciplinary module on 'Human Security' or 'Body, Sexuality and Identity' and may continue your interest in a language, or volunteer work.

Year 3 allows you to tailor you studies around topics that interest you. In Sociology, you can select modules on, for example, 'Gender and Development in Non-Western societies', 'Global Education', and 'Work'. In Media and Cultural Studies, you can select modules on, for example 'Gender Issues' and 'Consumer Culture'. Students will also undertake either an individually designed research project with your own academic supervisor - or engage in a community-based work placement.

Why not check out what our students got up to for their final projects at our annual Degree Show 2019

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Sociology

Course programme

Module: 4SL009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module gives students an introduction to classical sociological theory. The module considers the purpose of sociological theory (theoretical thinking), the Enlightenment and the rise of sociological theory. The emphasis in both teaching sessions and assessments is that sociological theory is not only of historical interest, but illuminates the world in the second decade of the twenty first century. Put simply, classical theory helps explain the present.


Module: 4MZ009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major concepts in the study of media, communication and culture. The module explores how concepts can be applied to enable and enhance understanding of media, communications and culture in a global, digital age.


Module: 4MZ001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the ways in which media, culture and society interact. The module will investigate the context of media production and consumption, as well as identifying the ways in which media texts construct meaning.


Module: 4HU002

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to introduce students to key theoretical and methodological issues through an exploration of popular culture. The module explores the relationship between popular cultural forms and identity, and how culture can be perceived as both an expression of and resistance to dominant norms


Module: 4FI006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.


Module: 4SL005

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The Sociological Imagination introduces students to the foundational principles and concepts of sociology. It explores the key distinction between 'common sense' and 'sociological sense' in relation to selected aspects of Contemporary British society.


Module: 5MZ014

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to enable students to understand and to apply a variety of analytical methodologies in a theoretically and empirically informed manner.


Module: 5HU003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will focus on the centrality of the body in negotiations of identity and difference. It will develop an understanding of the gendered nature of bodily experience, the intersubjective constitution of sexuality and the historicity of sexuality.


Module: 5SL007

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces social science students to quantitative research methods. There are three aspects to the module. First, are introduced to quantitative methods: history, philosophy of science and ethics. Second students undertake a subject appropriate research project involving the formulation of a hypothesis, the writing of survey questions and the testing of the data obtained through the questionnaire. Three, students construct a project proposal in preparation for final year dissertation work.


Module: 5SL005

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will explore a selection of twentieth and twenty first century theoretical perspectives.& nbsp; In this way, it builds on the work of the classical theorists considered in the compulsory level 4 module, 4SL007.& nbsp; In order to impart some continuity and coherence into the subject matter, attention will be paid to the emphasis of the theorists on structure and agency in society.& nbsp; Rather than treating the subject matter as an abstract body of knowledge, the module will seek to emphasize and the students will be assessed in how social theory can explain contemporary societies.


Module: 5MZ027

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

‘Lifestyle’ has become a key concept in media studies. Not only is it a key marker of identity (we may, for example, ‘choose’ a lifestyle to suit our personality) but lifestyles and lifestyle-related issues now comprise a substantial part of media content – from lifestyle magazines through to ‘makeover’ and ‘reality’ TV shows covering such diverse topics as health, fashion, food, relationships, hygiene, antiques, home ownership, gardening, and travel. This module also considers the impact of ‘celebrity’ on perceptions of lifestyle, as celebrity lives and lifestyles are increasingly held up as models for our own lives.


Module: 5SL001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

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This course offers you the chance to analyse and understand the complexities of society and culture, in their historical and contemporary context.

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