Overview

About the programme

This joint degree consists of courses and options taken from the Economics single subject degree and from Sociology.

Employment after your degree

Career prospects for Economics/Sociology graduates are good. The analytical, empirical, and interpretative skills developed here are highly valuable in many careers. As a result our graduates go on to a wide variety of occupations.

Recent graduates have gone on to careers in accountancy, banking, business, finance, law, the media, personnel, social work and teaching, amongst many other career destinations.

Applying with UCAS

When applying for this programme, use course code LL13.

Standard offer

The standard offer for this programme is AAB at A Level.

Year one

Year one

Course structure

• Introducing Sociology: Cultivating a Sociological Imagination
  30 credits
• Sociological Theory
  30 credits
• Two economics module options
  30 credits each

Economics module options

For information on the economics module options, refer to the Department of Economics.

Year two

Year two

Course structure

• Social Research Methods, or one sociology module option
  30 credits
• One sociology module option
  30 credits
• Two economics module options
  30 credits each

Sociology module options

Students may choose one or two modules from the following:

• Crime, Culture and Social Change
• Contemporary Political Sociology
• Gender, Sexuality and Diversity
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Popular Culture, Media and Society
• Social Interaction and Conversation Analysis

Economics module options

For information on the economics module options, refer to the Department of Economics.

Year three

Year three

Course structure

• Dissertation (in either Sociology or Economics)
  40 credits
• Autumn term
  • One sociology module option
    20 credits
  • One economics module option
    20 credits
• Spring term
  • One sociology module option
    20 credits
  • One economics module option
    20 credits

Sociology module options

Students may choose two 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

Economics module options

For information on the economics module options, refer to the Department of Economics.