Sociology : BA Hons : L300

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Have you ever wanted to know the full story behind the important issues in our society? Are you interested in understanding more about gender inequalities in our societies and women’s experiences of everyday sexism? What can sociology teach us about disasters and when things go wrong with technology? How can we think sociologically about the future? How important is what we consume to our sense of identity and social relationships? How have the financial crisis and austerity measures impacted on people’s daily lives?

Here at Lancaster you can engage with these questions and have chance to ask your own by studying on our BA Sociology course. We help you to make the familiar strange, to ask critical questions, to understand a wide range of classic and contemporary sociological writing, and to develop skills that allow you to carry out independent research.

Since being established in 1969, Lancaster Sociology has developed an excellent reputation and today we are one of the best departments in the UK and the world. Both our staff and students contribute to important public discussions through lectures, blogs, media appearances and social media.

Our Department offers a range of opportunities to foster your personal and professional development. You can participate in field trips, placements, studying aboard, film screenings, public events, seminars, and major international conferences. All this makes for a vibrant and supportive atmosphere.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

With a degree in Sociology from Lancaster University, which is a Top 10 UK university and a top university globally, your career opportunities are exciting and diverse. They include working in the charitable sector, community engagement organisations, social enterprises, the caring professions, the civil service, research organisations, teaching, specialist recruitment, media and creative industries, human resources, and graduate trainee management.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Sociology
  • Social Media
  • Media
  • Sociological Imagination
  • Social Problems
  • Contemporary
  • Inequalities and Politics
  • Mass Media
  • Social Thought
  • Social Life

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • The Sociological Imagination

Optional

    • Contemporary Social Problems
    • Gender and Women's Studies: Identities, Inequalities and Politics
    • Transformations: From Mass Media to Social Media
Year 2

Core

    • Skills for researching social life
    • Understanding Social Thought

Optional

    • Bodies in Society
    • Climate Change and Society
    • Consumer Culture and Advertising
    • Critical Cultural Theory
    • Digital Cultures
    • Friendship, Intimacy and Society
    • Gender and Media
    • Gender, Sexuality and Society
    • Living with Capitalism: Work and Profit
    • Media and Visual Culture
    • Socio-Cultural Approaches to Advertising
    • Sociology of the Environment
    • Viral Video Production
Year 3

Core

    • Independent Dissertation Project

Optional

    • Classic Encounters
    • Disasters: Why do things go wrong?
    • Feminism and Social Change
    • Health, Life and Bodies
    • Living with Capitalism: Class, Distribution and Recognition
    • Media in a Global Age
    • Modernity and its Discontents
    • Nations and Migration
    • Newspapers, Journalism and Society
    • Social Media and Activism
    • Society and Drugs
    • Sociology goes to Hollywood
    • Sociology of the Future
    • Technologies and Practices of Everyday Life
    • Terror
    • Violence and Society

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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Overseas Fee - £15,680

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