Course Content
Year 1
Modules in this year include:
- Class, Inequality and the Lifecourse – 20 credits
- Developing Your Sociological Imagination – 40 credits
- Observing Society – 20 credits
- Research Design and Analysis – 20 credits
- Theorising Social Life – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Doing Sociological Research – 20 credits
- Modernity and Globalisation – 20 credits
- Risk and Society – 20 credits
- Work, Employment and Society – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Challenging Global Inequality – 20 credits
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues – 20 credits
- Emotions and Social Life – 20 credits
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice – 20 credits
- Family, Career and Generation – 20 credits
- Food, Culture, and Society – 20 credits
- Gender and Sexuality – 20 credits
- Gender and the Media – 20 credits
- Health, Wellbeing, and Happiness – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture – 20 credits
- Media, Culture and National Identity – 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis And the Everyday – 20 credits
- Race and Racism – 20 credits
- Screen Media – 20 credits
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent – 20 credits
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity – 20 credits
- Sociology of Religion – 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life – 20 credits
- The Body: Sociological Perspectives – 20 credits
- The Sociology of Education – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Optional modules in this year include:
- Dissertation (Sociology) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Celebrity and Society – 20 credits
- Challenging Global Inequality – 20 credits
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues – 20 credits
- Emotions and Social Life – 20 credits
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice – 20 credits
- Family, Career and Generation – 20 credits
- Food, Culture and Society – 20 credits
- Gender and Sexuality – 20 credits
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Media Fan Cultures – 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis And the Everyday – 20 credits
- News, War and Peace – 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
- Race and Racism – 20 credits
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent – 20 credits
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity – 20 credits
- Sociology of Religion – 20 credits
- Studying Comedy – 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life – 20 credits
