BA (Hons) Media and Sociology with Foundation Year
Bachelor's degree
In Wolverhampton
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South & City College Birmingham
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King's College London
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Bachelor's degree
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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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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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Course programme
Module: 3HU005
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to the concept of multiculturalism and national identity. It uses texts from a range of humanities based sources but focuses on the philosophical concepts of self and other and traces media reactions to the notion of multiculturalism and identity in the UK, especially in the contemporary era.
Module: 3GK012
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.
Module: 3GK013
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.
Module: 3GK014
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.
Module: 4SL009
Credits: 20
Period: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 3
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: 3
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
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Additional information
BA (Hons) Media and Sociology with Foundation Year
-
South & City College Birmingham
A Level West Midlands / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
West Lothian College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of the Highlands and Islands
Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000 -
King's College London
Master Distance Learning£ 16,800 -
Learn by Cam
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Distance Education Dept. - Islamic College for Adv. Studies
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request
See all