Overview

Our joint honours course allows students to pursue their own areas of interest within Education Studies and Sociology whilst also providing them with a solid foundation in the discipline and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for their future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable students to gradually develop their knowledge and skills and to become autonomous, effective and independent learners.

Education Studies is the academic study of education comprising a multi-disciplinary range of modules in history, psychology, philosophy, sociology and educational research. Sociology is a wide-ranging subject concerned with analysing social relationships and social institutions and the ways in which they shape people’s lives.

Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.

Learning and assessment

In your first year, you’ll explore child and adolescent development. You’ll learn about children’s rights and early childhood policy. You’ll explore social processes such as gender socialisation, urbanisation and education from competing theoretical perspectives.

In your second year, you’ll analyse alternative educational provisions. You’ll learn about emotional development and explore inclusive learning environments. You’ll learn about racism through the lens of housing, policing, migration and you’ll analyse different aspects of global social change and its varying consequences.

In your final year, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what you care about most, including your dissertation. You’ll examine the experiences of marginalised or excluded children. You might scrutinise the perceived links between youth culture and deviance. Or you might examine the social impact of emergent technologies or international labour migration.