BA (Hons) Sociology and History with Foundation Year

Module: 3GK015

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

You will have the opportunity to study and understand contemporary social issues from different disciplinary perspectives. You will engage with current academic debates about a range of social issues and debate and discuss ideas about the social world that will challenge and extend your thinking. The module will provide an exciting basis for your future study of the Social Sciences.

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: 4PO005

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to explore some of the ways in which women in the past have challenged their subordination, both by demanding& nbsp;their inclusion in public, political and professional life and& nbsp;through involvement in movements for wider social and political reform. The module will include case study material from Britain and across the British Empire& nbsp;-& nbsp;including India and the Caribbean - to showcase historic campaigns& nbsp;including women& #39;s opposition to slavery, the struggle for women& #39;s higher education,& nbsp;the reform of sexual conduct& nbsp;and the fight for women& #39;s suffrage.

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: 4HS003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module examines the foundations of modern British society through a focus on the broad period of industrial development and social change c1700-c1819 (the year the Monarchy was presented with an heir apparent). Especial emphasis will be given to the impact of industrialisation, British imperialism and urbanisation on the world of work, politics, culture and the household.

Module: 4SL010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will familiarise students with the complex relationship between the media and the manufacture of deviance resulting in social stigma. It focuses upon media representations of 'deviance', criminality and the construction of social stigma. The module provides students with an understanding of the role of the media in the creation of moral panics and examines the influence of these representations on popular opinion, social policies and legal decision-making.

Module: 4HS001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module introduces you to the study and practice of history (and if you are studying for a degree in a cognate field, the practice of academic work). Different approaches to the subject, historiographical and methodological issues will be studied in order to familiarise you with the pathway learning outcomes, derived from the QAA History benchmarking statement, which will underpin your studies. A key focus of the module will be the development of subject and key skills that will enable you to cope with more advanced work in the subject.

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: 5SL007

Credits: 20

Period: 3

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.

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