Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BSc (Hons)
Our Combined Degree programmes offer you the
opportunity to combine two subjects - enabling
Sociology
you to study a greater breadth of subjects to suit
your interests, broaden your vocational skills and
enhance your career prospects.
Combined Degree
Location
Southwark
Duration
3 years (full-time excluding placements)
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description construction of social identities within
Start date
Studying sociology is both stimulating the context of global social change.
September
and engaging as the focus of it
Course contact
is human societies, cultures, and Career opportunities
Dr Shaminder Takhar
behaviour. Sociology can help us The skills and knowledge that you
takhars@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5748
(AHS)
see the society in which we live in a will gain studying with sociology as
How to apply
(AHS)
different light, why global changes are a combined degree are valued highly
Via UCAS
happening rapidly, and the nature and by various employers. There is a wide
Typical offer
sources of power inequalities. range of careers open to sociology
5 GCSEs including Maths and English at Grade C
graduates with some going into
or above and 160 UCAS Tariff Points
Throughout the course you will study a traditional professions such as teaching,
Course units
wide variety of topics that will help you social work and administration. Others
Year One
explore and develop an understanding have gone into research related work,
– From Poverty to Social Exclusion
of cultural diversity and there will be public relations, advertising, retail,
– Issues in Contemporary Sociology
– The Sociological Imagination
the opportunity to study the history of management, and media related work.
– Approaches to Social Policy
sociological thought, processes of social Some students do voluntary or paid
Year Two
change and development. The degree work in their own time in order to
Compulsory
– Making the Modern
also provides opportunity to explore assess suitability of career choice.
– Social Research Skills I
issues around construction of social
– Social Theory and Modernity
identity based on sexuality, race, gender, Additional notes
– Social Research Skills II
Options
religion, class and other contemporary Sociology as a combined degree is part
– Gender Difference and Equality:
social issues. You will also learn social of the Social and Policy Studies Scheme.
Historical and Contemporary Debates
research methods as a core component The undergraduate social and policy
– Poverty and Development
– Politics and Protest
of this degree, providing key skills for studies courses at LSBU are organised
– Sociology of Race, Ethnicity and Racism
your dissertation into a scheme in which students share
Year Three
a common Year One before going on
Compulsory
– Post-modernity and Social Change
This degree programme aims to develop to specialise in one of a wide choice of
– Making Identities
your understanding of classical and subject areas. The common Year One
– Researching Culture and Society
contemporary sociological theory and it of the scheme includes units such as:
Options
– European Media
will provide you with the analytical tools issues in contemporary sociology, and
– Crime, Criminology and Modernity
and research skills, to enable a critical the sociological imagination. These units
– Race, Culture and Identity
evaluation of contemporary society. provide the key building blocks for more
– Gender, Crime and Justice
– International Protection of Human Rights
The degree will also develop your specialist study at Levels Two and Three.
– Youth, Crime and Delinquency
understanding of social differentiation
and diversity across cultures and the
For full information on Combined Degrees
at LSBU, see page 260.
Combinations offered with Sociology
Major/Minor UCAS Code Combination code
Sociology with Film Studies L3P3 SocWFS
Sociology with English L3Q3 SocWE
Sociology with Law L3M1 SocWL
Sociology with Media Studies L3PH SocWMS
Sociology with Psychology L3C8 SocWPs
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