Sociology and Cultural Studies BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

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

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • A Sociology of 21st Century Britain
  • Practising Cultural Studies
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
Spring teaching
  • Culture Across Space and Time
  • Culture and the Everyday
  • Making the Familiar Strange
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
  • Theory Taste and Trash A
Spring teaching
  • Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
Options

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
Spring teaching
  • 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 or Placement

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

Options

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
Spring teaching
  • 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

International students Fee :  £16,750 per year

Sociology and Cultural Studies BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.