Overview

About the programme

Sociology/Education is a combined equal degree programme that is specifically designed to appeal to students who have an interest in both the field of education and the disicpline of sociology.

The programme explores the field of education from a sociological perspective. In addition, you will be introduced to a wide range of competing theoretical perspectives and academic disciplines applied to study of education.

Employment after your degree

The degree programme is designed to appeal to students who wish to prepare for a variety of career options. Those options could include entry to an early years or primary teaching training course, educational research, adult education, journalism, the Civil Service, publishing, and many others. The Department works closely with the University Careers Service.

The degree programme is not a teacher training course. Students who wish to teach in primary or secondary schools or adult education will need to take a postgraduate teacher training course (PGCE).

Applying with UCAS

When applying for this programme, use course code LX33.

Standard offer

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

Year one

Year one

Course structure

• Introducing Sociology: Cultivating a Sociological Imagination
  30 credits
• Sociological Theory
  30 credits
• Two education modules
  30 credits each

Education module options

For information on the education module options, refer to the programme details in Department of Education

Year two

Year two

Course structure

• Social Research Methods
  30 credits
• One sociology module option
  30 credits
• Two education modules
  30 credits each

Sociology module options

Students may choose one module 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

Education module options

For information on the education module options, refer to the programme details in Department of Education

Year three

Year three

Course structure

• Dissertation (Sociology/Education)
  40 credits
• Autumn term
  • One sociology module option
    20 credits
  • One education module option
    20 credits
• Spring term
  • One sociology module option
    20 credits
  • One education module option
    20 credits

Sociology module options

Students may choose two sociology 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

Education module options

For information on the education module options, refer to the programme details in Department of Education