Social Policy and Sociology BA with Year Abroad

Modules in the first year

Core modules are:

• Introduction to Social Policy
• Social Problems and Social Policy: Social Science in Action Part 1
• Social Problems and Social Policy: Social Science in Action Part 2
• Introduction to Social Divisions
• The Sociological Imagination
• Social Research I Part 1
• Social Research I Part 2
• Crime and Society

Core modules are:

• Policy Analysis
• Social Research 2
• Modern Sociological Theory

You must choose one of the following modules:

• 'Sociology of Race' and Ethnicity - A Global Perspective
• Gender and Sexuality
• Poverty, Class and Inequality

Chose a further 40 credits from the following:

• Comparative Social Politics
• Gender and Sexuality
• 'Sociology of Race' and Ethnicity - A Global Perspective
• Managing Health and Social Care
• Punishment in Global Context
• Changing Behaviours: a history
• Terror, Threat and Security
• Contemporary Issues in Housing
• Self and Society
• Media and Society
• Global Societies

Our Social Policy, Criminology and Policy, Politics and Economics degrees offer a year abroad option. If selecting this option, your degree will follow the same programme as the standard BA in terms of Years 1 and 2. However, your third year will be spent abroad at a university in the EU or elsewhere in the world. After completing your year abroad, you will return for your fourth and final year to the same BA degree programme. You will be required to choose from a range of modules provided by the host institution and which must be agreed by the exchange tutor. These modules should be equivalent to 120 credits.

There are a wide range of countries and universities from which you can choose. As well as a range of European universities, you may also choose from a range of current institutional partners worldwide. These include countries in which a variety of languages are spoken, including universities at which courses are taught in English.

In recent years, students in the department have taken their year abroad in Australia, Canada, Denmark and the United States, among others.

• Dissertation (Social Policy and Sociology)
• Contemporary Social Theory

Social Policy

You can choose from the following optional modules:

• Quantitative Data Analysis I
• Quantitative Data Analysis I
• From Beveridge to May: The Political History of the Welfare State From the Second World War to the Present Day
• Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
• New Migration and Super-Diversity
• Divided Publics?
• Sociology of Personal Life
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Crime and the City
• Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
• Technology & Society
• Sociology of Film
• `Freedom?, Control and Critique
• Political Sociology
• Sociology of Success and Fame

Please note: The modules listed on the website for this programme are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this programme are for students starting in 2020. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to compulsory modules; in this event we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.