Sociology with Psychology (with Foundation Year) - BSc(Hons)

Foundation year (Year zero)

You will study the following modules:

• Academic Skills for Social Sciences
• Exploring the Social World and the Problems of Crime
• From Plato to Nato
• People and Social Science

You will study the Foundation year alongside students from our other Social Science courses, and so you may be able to transfer to a course in one of these areas at the end of the Foundation year.

The normal expectation is that you must pass all Year 0 modules before progressing to Year one.

Year one

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• Foundations in Social Theory
• Sociological Practice
• Introduction to Psychology
• Research Design and Analysis 1
• Critical Thinking.

At the end of Year one, you choose whether to major in Sociology or to major in Psychology and continue with Sociology as a minor subject (see course entry for Psychology with Sociology for full details). If you continue with Sociology as your major subject you will study:

Year two

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• Social Inequalities and Diversity
• Social Transformations
• Nature and Use of Research
• Developing Self and Society
• One optional module from the list below:

Optional modules

• Mind, Brain and Development
• Identities in Psychology

Final year

• Social Sciences Project and Placement module
• Two optional modules from the list below:

Optional modules

• Stop, Look, Listen: A Sociology of Culture
• Protest, Policing and Public Order
• Childhood Disorder and Disordered Childhood
• Psychoanalysis, Society and the Irrational
• Digital Media and Society
• Representations of Crime and Deviance
• Bodies, Technology and Society
• The Sociology of Madness and Mental Disorders
• Religion and Society
• Politics and Society in the Global Age
• Family Problems - Problem Families: Psycho-Social Perspectives on Family and Community Life

Plus select optional modules for the list below according to credit requirements:

• Advanced Developmental Psychology
• Anomalous Experiences and Mental Health
• Appearance and Embodiment
• Applied Developmental Psychology
• Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Counselling and Psychotherapy Theory & Research
• Developing Self and Society
• Health Psychology in Practice
• Psychology and Social Justice
• Psychology and the Arts
• Psychology in the Community
• The Arts and Mental Health
• Working with difference in counselling and psychotherapy
• Atypical Development
• Gender, Sexualities and Society
• Human Sexuality
• Methods in Neuroscience
• Psychological Approaches in Mental Health
• Consciousness
• Psychology of Work, Business and Organisations
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychology of Addiction

This structure is for the full-time course delivery only. For part-time delivery, the same modules will be studied. However, the structure will differ.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.

We use a variety of traditional and non-traditional methods of teaching from formal lectures, seminars and workshops to one-to-one tutorials and ICT based learning technologies. It is of significant benefit to the quality of teaching that seminar numbers are kept to a maximum of twenty students.

Practical work is carried out in specialist laboratories for Psychology and Psychophysiology. All students have access to computing facilities with statistical and specialist software.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

UWE guarantees at least 12 contact hours of teaching and related academic activities.

Sociology

Forms of assessment are varied and seek to develop numerous academic and practical skills. Assessment includes essays, seminar presentations, timed assignments, group and individual projects, literature reviews, and computer-based assessment. We are moving towards 'seen' examinations as we believe that by providing you with the questions in advance we are eliminating 'luck' in the assessment process about which questions will come up and also enabling you to engage more deeply with the material and so improve your performance.

Psychology

The course makes use of a variety of assessment methods. On average, the weighting of coursework and controlled assessment is around 50%, although this varies from module to module. Coursework includes: essays, journal article and book reviews, research reports, literature review, computer based tests, personal reflective journal. Controlled assessment includes unseen and seen examinations, timed assignments, group and individual presentations.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.