Sociology (Single Honours)

Entry Requirements

• A Level: BBB/ ABC
• Subjects not included: General Studies and Critical Thinking
• International Baccalaureate: 32 points
• BTEC: DDM.   
• GSCE: English Language and Mathematics or Science at C or above
• Completion of Diploma 1 with 7 or above. 
• STPM Principal passes in a minimum of three subjects. Distinction comparable to A level grade A, Credit (higher) comparable to A level grade B and Credit (lower) comparable to A level grade C. Check A level requirements for your chosen course.

English Language Requirement

• IELTS: 6.0 (subtests 5.5) 
• Pearson, PTE: 59 (components 51)           
• Cambridge English First(foundations) and Advanced: 169 (subtests 162)

Curriculum

First year

Core modules:

• Classical Sociology
• Social Inequalities in the Contemporary World

Optional core modules:

• Researching British Society
• Mediated World
• Modernity and its Darkside
• Self and Society
• Understanding Culture

Elective modules:

• Understanding Crime
• Murder
• Criminal Justice: Process, Policy and Practice
• Punishment: Beyond the Popular Imagination

Second year

Core modules:

• Contemporary Social Theory
• Research Methods

Optional core modules:

• Cities, Culture and Society
• Witchcraft, Zombies, and Social Anxiety
• Cultures of Consumption
• Families and Household
• ‘Race’, Racism and Resistance
• Globalisation and its Discontents
• Analysing Culture

Elective modules:

• Crime and Justice in a Global Context
• Crime, Culture and Conflict

Third year

Core modules:

• Dissertation

Elective modules:

• Popular Culture and Crime
• Living with ‘Aliens’: Immigration, Crime and Social Control
• State Crimes and Crimes against Humanity