Sociology and Quantitative Methods

Year 1

• Researching Society and Culture
• Class and Capitalism in a Neoliberal World
• History of Sociological Thought
• Introduction to Social Analytics I
• Introduction to Social Analytics 2

Year 2

• Designing and Conducting Social Research
• Intermediate Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences 1
• Intermediate Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences 2

Year 3

• Numbers in the Workplace placement (between years 2 and 3)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences
• Dissertation

Selection of optional modules that current students are studying:International Perspectives on Gender; Crime and Society; Sociology of Health and Medicine; Social Movements and Political Action.

How will I learn?

You will normally take eight different modules in each year, which are taught via lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, group work and independent study.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed by a combination of essays, reports, podcasts, reflective writing and unseen exams. To support your assessment, you will submit class essays during the year and receive extensive feedback. In the final year, you write a 10,000-word dissertation on a sociological topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervision from staff. This prepares you for the needs of working life by consolidating core and transferable skills, and supports further academic study at MA and PhD level. Your final degree classification is based on your performance across the modules taken in your second and third years.