BSc Sociology and Social Policy

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
Are you fascinated by social change and how it might be brought about? Do you want to play a part in this process by developing an expertise on how social institutions (governments, NGOs) seek to advance human welfare at national and global level? A degree in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton provides you with a big step towards this goal.
The course focuses on social institutions, social inequalities and social transformations. It allows students to explore how inequalities of power within society shape social outcomes and what steps might be taken to transform this situation. With a range of highly accessible modules, the BSc Sociology and Social Policy degree prepares graduates for a career in a range of sectors, from NGOs to government to teaching. You will leave this course as a highly skilled social scientist with an acute awareness of national and global social issues and how they might be addressed.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Criminology
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • Social Policy
  • Sociology
  • Global
  • University
  • Project
  • Social Change

Course programme

Year 1

Our first year programme will introduce you to the study of Sociology and Social Policy, including a focus on everyday lives & the sociological imagination, social problems & social policy global social change over the past century, social theory and research methods.

In addition to this, our Curriculum Innovation Programme offers our students the chance to take optional modules outside their core disciplines. This allows you to personalise your education, to develop new skills and knowledge for your future.

Semester One

In semester one you will also choose two optional modules. Your available optional modules can be sociology and social policy modules, but they may come from disciplines across the university for example anthropology, criminology, demography, economics, politics and international relations, social statistics modern languages, law, psychology, physics, history etc.

Core [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

SOCI1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Understanding Everyday Life

SOCI1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Social Problems and Social Policy

SOCI1015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Human Rights, Wellbeing and Politics

Optional

ARCH1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Human Origins

CRIM1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Criminology

PAIR1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to International Relations

ECON1009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Economics For Non-Economists

DEMO1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Population and Society

Semester TwoCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

SOCI1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Transformations of The Modern World

SOCI1014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Foundations in Social and Anthropological Theory

STAT1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Quantitative Methods

Year 2

In your second year you will take four compulsory modules. In these you will study in detail qualitative and quantitative methods in order to be well prepared for your final year when you will conduct your own research as part of your dissertation. You will also study social theory and the post-war history of the British welfare state. In addition, you will have the opportunity to take four optional modules from a list, two in the first semester, and two in the second. These will come from a broad range of social science disciplines: Sociology and Social Policy, Anthropology, Criminology, Politics, Education, Geography.

Semester OneCompulsory

SOCI2031Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Social Theory

STAT2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Research Methods in The Social Sciences

Optional

CRIM2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Perspectives in Criminology

CRIM2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Crime and Criminal Justice: Historical Perspective

GEOG2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Geographies of Wellbeing

SOCI2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Gender & Society

SOCI2017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Class Structure and Social Inequality

SOCI2035Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Children and Society

CRIM2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Criminological Psychology

SOCI2033Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Environment, Development and Society

Year 3

In year three you will study different societies from a comparative perspective – how and why have they become modern and industrialised, what social problems emerged and how did countries develop different social policies to address them? You will also conduct your individual research project in a double-module dissertation. In addition, you will be asked to chose four modules from a wide range of options, most of which will be taught in student-led seminars.

Semester OneCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

SOCI3033Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation

Compulsory

SOCI3001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Comparative Sociology

SOCI3002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Comparing Welfare States - Evolution, Politics & Impact

Optional

In addition to a range of options (examples below), students are required to take a paired grouping from Collective Action & Social Change/Project: Collective Action & Social Change or Focusing on Families/Project: Focusing on Families.

ANTH3002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Sexuality and Intimacy

ANTH3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Anthropology, Film and Representations of the Other

CRIM3001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Penology

CRIM3002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control

CRIM3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Global Crime and Justice

CRIM3012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Youth, Crime and Society

CRIM3014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Deserving and Undeserving: Victims and Scroungers in Criminology and Social Policy

SOCI3073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Cyber Lives? New Technologies and Social Change

SOCI3083Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Class Structure and Social Inequality

SOCI3084Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Environment, Development and Society

SOCI3086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Children and Society

SOCI3087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Migration in a Globalising World

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