Program Overview

How is the 4th industrial revolution going to affect the skills you'll need to get a graduate level job? Why has the COVID-19 pandemic seen more deaths amongst people from 'BAME' communities? How can communities organise more effectively to challenge social inequalities? What will the 'new normal' look like and how will this address the global environmental crisis?

Studying questions like these on the BA (Hons) Sociology degree will develop your digital sociological imagination and the critical and professional skills that lead on to a wide range of careers such as teaching, social research, journalism, social work, human resources, social policy and NGO management.

Your first two years on the degree will prepare you to conduct your own research project on a subject of your own choice supervised by one of your lecturers and you will also gain valuable work experience by doing a work placement in your final year.

The Sociology with Foundation Year course  is perfect if you want a degree in sociology, but don't meet the standard entry requirements.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

This three-year full-time degree course (or four years part-time) will connect you to the real-life issues that exist in the communities outside our walls.

You'll learn about the 4th industrial revolution and the globalisation of society. In this increasingly digital age, information, money, goods and services move freely across national boundaries. Issues about society are no longer confined to geographical location and the large-scale movement of people across borders is an issue affecting all parts of the world.

Your course will make sense of the impact of this digital revolution and globalisation on the world in general and modern Britain in particular, focusing on its relationship to class, gender, religion and nationalism. You'll also learn how to interpret data and how to conduct informed debate on social issues.

In your first year, you'll gain a thorough grounding in the subject by studying six core modules. In your second and third years, you'll be able to specialise in the subjects that interest you the most. These optional modules include ones on social change, the body, age and generation, cities, 'race', nationalisms, gender, surveillance, digital culture, and the media.

In your third year, you'll do a work placement module. You will build up your employability skills through a series of workshops focusing on mock interviews, job applications, networking, confidence and social media skills. You will then do a 12-day work placement and produce a critical review report at the end.  Afterwards, you will receive feedback from the work placements employers. All of this will help prepare you for the world of graduate level work when you finish.

You'll be taught by staff with relevant experience and practice to ensure you learn from real life experience and research. We offer dual delivery which combines traditional on-campus face-to-face teaching and online teaching simultaneously, allowing you to interact as if you were there in person. You can move smoothly between online and on campus teaching subject to your individual timetable (and health requirements). Students can interact and collaborate in person and online in any of these live-streamed sessions. Live-streamed sessions will also be recorded, so you can log in when you want, playback and watch from the comfort of your home and whilst on the go.