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BA (Hons) Sociology (L300)

The standard offer for L300 is BBB at A Level.

The admissions tutor for this course is Dr David Beer sociology-admissions@york.ac.uk.

Overview

The Department of Sociology at York is today recognised as one of the leading teaching and research centres for the discipline in the United Kingdom. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise we were ranked joint first, with the majority of our research judged to be either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. This excellence in research directs our teaching throughout our undergraduate programme. It does not matter if you have not studied sociology before as the first year of this programme is made up of foundational modules that are designed to cover the core methodological and theoretical skills needed to think sociologically. The second and third years then offer students a wide-range of optional modules that are taught by members of the Department who are producing cutting-edge research in these fields.

Course structure BA (Hons) Sociology

Year 1
Introducing Sociology: Cultivating a Sociological Imagination (30 Credits, Compulsory)
Sociological Theory (30 Credits, Compulsory)
Sociology of Crime and Deviance (30 Credits, Compulsory)
Social Psychology (30 Credits, Compulsory)
Year 2
Social Research Methods (30 Credits, Compulsory)
Option from Table A (30 Credits)
Option from Table A (30 Credits)
Option from Table A (30 Credits)
Year 3
Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term
Option from Table B   (20 Credits)	Option from Table B   (20 Credits)
Option from Table B (20 Credits)	Option from Table B (20 Credits)
Dissertation (Sociology) (40 Credits, Compulsory)

Optional modules

In the second and third years of the degree, students may choose from a selection of optional modules in sociology:

Table A Options In the second year, Sociology students may choose three modules from the following:
Crime, Culture and Social Change	Power, Governance and Society
Gender, Sexuality and Diversity	Sociology of Health and Illness
Popular Culture, Media and Society	Social Interaction and Conversation Analysis

 

Table B Options In the third year, Sociology students may choose four modules from the following (10-12 of these options will be available each year):
Analysing Doctor-Patient Interactions	Social Construction of Human Behaviour
Body, Identity and Society	Social Research Methods II
Cities and Social Theory	Sociology of Art
Complexity and Society	Sociology of Celebrity
Consumer Culture and Criminal Identities	Sociology of Food
Humans and Other Animals	Sociology of Music
Language and Social Institutions	Sociology of Reproduction
Paranormal in Society	Sociology of Risk and Surveillance
Researching Human Interaction	The Wire as Social Science Fiction
Science as Culture	Youth Identities

Employment after your degree

Students graduating with a BA (Hons) Sociology degree will be trained to apply for the range of posts including management, administration, human resources, housing, media, retail, public policy, education, the health professions, and the social services.

Last Updated: September 21, 2009 | sociology@york.ac.uk

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