Sociology and International Development 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
If you want to understand the challenges of reducing poverty and inequality in societies across the world, this course is for you.
Our faculty influence debates on topics such as gender inequalities, health care, human rights and the environment.
Outside the classroom, you gain hands-on experience through:
research projects
international work placements
sessions with expert development speakers.
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About this course
Recent Department of Sociology graduates have gone on to jobs including:
project development, FareShare Sussex
account executive, FFT Aspire
analyst, British Arab Commercial Bank.
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
- Human Rights
- Conflict
- Politics
- Sociology
- International
- Sociology Project
- Sociology of Fun
- Sexualities
- Intersections
- Rural Livelihoods
- Medicine
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- A Sociology of 21st Century Britain
- Colonialism and After
- Global Development Paradigms, Policy and Politics
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
- Global Development Challenges and Innovation
- Key Thinkers in Development
- Making the Familiar Strange
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
Autumn teaching
- Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
- Economic Perspectives on Development
- Social Change, Culture and Development
- 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
- Research Skills for Development
- Sociology of Everyday Life
- Classical Sociological Theory
- Development and the State
- Education and Inequality
- Environmental Perspectives on Development
- Finance for Development
- Gender and Development: Theory, Concepts and Issues
- Health, Poverty and Inequality
- International Education and Development
- Power, Deviance and Othering
- Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
- 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
- Anthropology of Migration
- Contemporary Issues in the Global Political Economy
- Contemporary Issues in the Global Political Economy
- Contemporary Social Theory (Aut)
- Death of Socialism?
- Development Tools and Skills
- Development Work Experience
- Development, Human Rights & Security
- Disasters, Environment and Development
- Environment, Ecology and Development
- Ethnographies of Aid
- Geographies of Violence and Conflict
- Identity and Interaction
- Marxism and International Relations
- Mercenaries, Gangs and Terrorists: Private Security in International Politics
- Migration and Global Development
- Postcolonial Europe?
- Religions in Global Politics
- Sex and Death in Global Politics
- Sexualities / Intersections
- Sociology of Humans and Other Animals (Aut)
- Sociology Research Proposal
- Surveillance, Security and Control
- The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Aut)
- The Global Politics of Health
- The Politics of International Trade
- Wealth, Inequality and Development
- International Development Thesis
- Alternative Societies (Spr)
- Capitalism and Geopolitics
- Critical Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
- Decolonial Movements
- Development and Geopolitics in East Asia: in-depth Analysis
- Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Global Approaches to Peace
- Human Rights
- Identity & Interaction
- Medicine and the Body
- Rural Livelihoods in the Global South
- Rural Livelihoods in the Global South
- Sexualities / Intersections
- Sociology of Fun
- Sociology Project
- Surveillance, Security and Control
- The Body: current controversies and debates
- The Reign of Rights in Global Politics
- The United States in the World
Additional information
Sociology and International Development BA (Hons)