Course Overview
Are you interested in how the world works? Does your future career involve making a difference to people and the world around you? Explore how people achieve or are given, social status and whether gender, class, or ethnicity impacts the opportunities available to us. Examine how even our personalities, values, and outlook are shaped by the cultures we belong to, and investigate the role of the media in promoting the ideologies of the powerful. Develop a deeper understanding of issues like social justice, poverty, discrimination, migration, crime and punishment, developmental psychology, celebrity culture, and the social consequences of the climate crisis. Finally, you will be encouraged to find and follow your own passion for the subject by undertaking independent research, and then discovering how social change can come about through collective action and activism.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS 96-112 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels BBC – CCC
- BTEC/ Cambridge Technical DMM – MMM
- Access to HE Diploma Pass with at least 12 Distinctions and 15 Merits.
- GCSEs C or higher in English Language.
- IB 26-28 points
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5
Careers
This BA (Hons) Sociology degree prepares you for a range of careers. You could work in a range of industries including welfare, education, social research, and the government. You will develop your research skills during the course so you could work as a researcher in a large company or the Civil Service. Many students also go on to postgraduate studies and become independent researchers.
- Advice worker
- Community development worker
- Teaching
- Police officer
- Youth worker
- Probation officer
- Social Research
- Investigator
Course Content
- Why Sociology Matters I and II
- What is Going on? Making Sense of the 21st Century
- Social Identities and Inequalities I and II
- Ageing and the Life Course
- Explaining Society
- Crime and Society
- Being Human: Emotions and Behaviour in Social Life
- Sex, Sexualities and Society
- Analysing Social Problems
- Culture, Media and Society
- Criminology Classics and Controversies
- Making a Difference 1: Community Project (Group Placement Project)
- Research Methods
- Health and Wellbeing
- Making a Difference 2: Preparation for Professional Careers
- Aggression, Violence and Abuse: a Sociological Perspective
- A Dangerous World? Risk, Anxiety and the Media
- Music, TV and Film in a Changing World
- Independent Project (Sociology Dissertation)