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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Greenwich Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Study a sociology degree to make sense of society's most challenging issues. You'll emerge with the analytical skills to embark on careers that help to deliver solutions.Our BA Hons Sociology degree explores issues such as inequality and social change, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, crime and deviance, and social justice. The course provides a wide range of options in History, Politics and Media and Journalism, as well as the chance to widen your perspective by studying a language.You could also undertake a dissertation or work placement in your final year.By the end of your degree, you'll understand how to apply critical thought, research, communication, and teamwork to what you do. These transferable skills are sought after by many employers.Popular careers for our sociology graduates include youth and community work, HR and marketing, and positions within charitable organisations and local and national government.
This course examines the role of communities in shaping social experiences. In doing so, students will enhance their research methods skills through the analysis of texts which analyse each thematic area. Students will also undertake and secondary data research projects as part of their assessments. Through teaching and assessment they will become familiar with both quantitative and qualitative research methods as used by social researchers.
The aims of this course are to: Invite students to consider the realities of oppression, poverty, wealth and social exclusion, introducing them to theories of social justice from a range of social science perspectives: everyday inequalities, critical enquiries.
The objective of this course is to engage with different aspects of contemporary popular culture within British society and to apply (and explore) different sociological and cultural studies approaches within this context. Students will therefore explore a range of theoretical traditions and methodological approaches typically employed in relation to the study of culture, but will do so in relation to aspects of their own lived experience.
The aims of the course are to introduce students to a range of issues central to the social sciences, including debates concerning macro (large scale) vs micro (smaller scale) approaches to analysing society. The main focus is, however, on micro approaches, and more specifically theories and concepts of the self and subjectivity, the roles and impacts of social structures in shaping the self and experience, and how Sociological thinking in this area has developed over the past 100 years. In addition, students will develop an understanding of qualitative research methods, such as autobiography used by sociologists to understand the ?self?.
Provide an in-depth understanding of the main theorists and main schools of thought within Sociology.
Introduce students to a variety of sociological research methods.
Placement Year
The HPSS sandwich placement aims to help students synthesise knowledge and skills acquired during the first two years of the degree programme and apply them appropriately in a working environment under the supervision of an employer. It provides students with the opportunity to manage and enhance the development of their own personal skills, acquire and develop a range of skills such as communication skills, professional awareness, technological skills, employability skills, and have the opportunity to apply them in a work environment. It also aims to provide students with an opportunity to work supervised and unsupervised with an appreciation of work ethics.
This course explores the intersections between understandings of deviance and crime and the social constructions of gender and ?race?. It examines the cultural representations of the criminal and the victim, and the political and social repercussions of these.
Gain an in-depth understanding of theoretical frameworks related to gender ad sexuality and the ways in which they have been positioned within the social sciences.
112.0 Grades/points required
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