History and Sociology BA (Hons)

• A Sociology of 21st Century Britain
• The Early Modern World
• Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I

• Making the Familiar Strange
• The Making of the Modern World
• Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II

• Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
• Ideas of History

• Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
• Global History 1500-2000: Trade, Science, Environment and Empire

• Beyond the Vote: Citizenship and Participation in Sociology
• Health across the Lifecourse
• History Short Period: America in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: Britain in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: England in the 16th Century
• History Short Period: Europe in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: The Middle East and North Africa since 1908
• Migration and Integration (Aut)
• Race: Conflict and Change
• Sociology of Everyday Life
• The African American Experience

• Classical Sociological Theory
• Education and Inequality
• Power, Deviance and Othering
• Resistance Movements in Conflict & War
• Sociology of Childhood (Spr)
• Time and Place 1851: Science, Empire and Exhibitionism
• Time and Place 2008: The Spectacle of the Beijing Olympics
• Time and Place: 1796: Lithography and the Mass Produced Image
• Time and Place: 1831: Slave Revolts
• Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War
• Time and Place: 1938: Kristallnacht
• Time and Place: 1953: Monarchs and Murders
• Time and Place: 1968: Rivers of Blood

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Year 3 at sussex

• History Special Dissertation

• Contemporary Social Theory (Aut)
• Death of Socialism?
• Development, Human Rights & Security
• Identity and Interaction
• Postcolonial Europe?
• Sexualities / Intersections
• Sociology of Humans and Other Animals (Aut)
• Sociology Research Proposal
• Surveillance, Security and Control
• The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Aut)

• Special Subject: Britain and the Second World War
• Special Subject: Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain
• Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950
• Special Subject: The Century of the Gene
• Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement
• Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War

• Alternative Societies (Spr)
• Identity & Interaction
• Medicine and the Body
• Sexualities / Intersections
• Sociology of Fun
• Sociology Project
• Surveillance, Security and Control
• The Body: current controversies and debates