Sociology and Cultural Studies BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
Explore the links between the media, culture and society, and develop the skills to analyse cultural products such as the mass media.
You can choose from a range of modules to suit your interests – from identity to globalisation and culture. And to support your career development, you benefit from opportunities to work on research projects.
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About this course
Recent Department of Sociology graduates have started jobs as:
digital media executive, McCann Manchester
project developer, Fareshare Sussex
event and marketing assistant, The Brighton & Hove Triathlon.
You should also have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (or A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
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Subjects
- Sociology
- Cultural Studies
- Media
- Familiar Strange
- Social research
- Theory Taste
- Lifecourse
- Migration
- Sociological Theory
- Representation
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- A Sociology of 21st Century Britain
- Practising Cultural Studies
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
- Culture Across Space and Time
- Culture and the Everyday
- Making the Familiar Strange
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
Autumn teaching
- Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
- Theory Taste and Trash A
- Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
Autumn teaching
- Beyond the Vote: Citizenship and Participation in Sociology
- Health across the Lifecourse
- Migration and Integration (Aut)
- Race: Conflict and Change
- Sociology of Everyday Life
- Classical Sociological Theory
- Culture and Representation
- Culture and Representation
- Culture, Race and Ethnicity
- Education and Inequality
- Gender, Space and Culture
- Power, Deviance and Othering
- Resistance Movements in Conflict & War
- Sociology of Childhood (Spr)
Study abroad (optional)
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
Placement (optional)A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for.
Year 3 at sussex
Autumn teaching
- Consuming Passions
- Contemporary Social Theory (Aut)
- Death of Socialism?
- Development, Human Rights & Security
- Documentary, Reality TV and 'Real Lives'
- Identity and Interaction
- Postcolonial Europe?
- Public Relations
- Sexualities / Intersections
- Sociology of Humans and Other Animals (Aut)
- Sociology Research Proposal
- Surveillance, Security and Control
- The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Aut)
- The Film Festival Circuit
- Alternative Societies (Spr)
- Comedy and Cultural Belonging
- Digital Industries and Internet Cultures
- Everyday Life and Technology
- Identity & Interaction
- Landscape, Nature and Representation
- Media, Publics and Protest
- Medicine and the Body
- Performing the Urban: postcolonial perspectives
- Race, Ethnicity and Identity
- Sexualities / Intersections
- Sociology of Fun
- Sociology Project
- Surveillance, Security and Control
- The Body: current controversies and debates
Additional information
Sociology and Cultural Studies BA (Hons)