BSc Sociology

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
Are you passionate about social inequality and social justice? Are you fascinated by the structure of the society around us and the diversity in life experiences faced by people of different races, genders, social classes, ages and sexualities?
This course focuses on social inequalities, social relations, social institutions, and social transformations, allowing students to explore identity, representations, power and interaction in contemporary societies. Choose a degree in Sociology at the University of Southampton and start your journey to a career that makes a difference. This programme contains modules on; Race and Ethnicity, Children and Society, Migration and Environment and Society and provides graduates with all the tools needed to become highly skilled social scientists. Our graduates establish careers within business, industry, Government and the voluntary sector, including the NHS, Education, Social Work, Management, Counselling and Human Resources.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Criminology
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • Sociology
  • Innovation
  • University
  • Project
  • Social Change

Course programme

Year 1

Our first year programme is designed to provide a broad introduction to the study of sociology, including a focus on everyday lives & the sociological imagination, global social change over the past century, social theory and research methods.

Optional Modules

In addition to the compulsory modules below you must chose 2 modules in Semester 1 and 1 module in Semester 2 . 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.

In addition to this, our Curriculum Innovation Programme offers our students the chance to take optional modules outside their core disciplines across all three years of study.

Visit the Curriculum Innovation modules for this course

Semester OneCore [?]

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

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

Compulsory

SOCI1003Credit[?]

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

: 15

Social Problems and Social Policy

Optional

ANTH1001Credit[?]

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

: 15

Exploring Other Cultures

CRIM1003Credit[?]

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

: 15

Introduction to Criminology

CRIM1004Credit[?]

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

: 15

Criminal Justice Studies

SOCI1015Credit[?]

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

: 15

Human Rights, Wellbeing and Politics

Year 2

In your second year you will take three 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. In addition, you will have the opportunity to take five optional modules from a list, three 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, Education, Geography.

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

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

ANTH2002Credit[?]

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

: 15

Culture, Communication and Cognition

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

CRIM2004Credit[?]

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

: 15

Criminological Psychology

SOCI2003Credit[?]

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

: 15

Gender & Society

SOCI2035Credit[?]

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

: 15

Children and Society

SOCI2017Credit[?]

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

: 15

Class Structure and Social Inequality

CRIM2006Credit[?]

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

: 15

Criminology: Policy & Practice

Year 3

In year three you will study different societies from a comparative perspective. You will also conduct your individual research project in a double-module dissertation. In addition, you will be asked to chose five modules from a wide range of options, most of which will be taught in student-led seminars.

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

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

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

SOCI3002Credit[?]

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

: 15

Comparing Welfare States - Evolution, Politics & Impact

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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