Sociology

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 13 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:1388 Duration:36 months

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Description

This degree is designed for highly motivated students with a keen interest in all aspects of human behaviour and society. It provides rigorous training in a range of methodologies and research skills appropriate to sociology.
The course is concerned with developing theories that explain the changing nature of social behaviour in our own and other societies. The kinds of question with which we are concerned are: ‘What is society?’ ‘How and why is it changing?’ ‘What are the opportunities for future change and development?’
The earliest sociologists tried to understand the major issues of their time – poverty, unemployment, social conflict, and the social and economic consequences of rapid and profound industrial and economic change. Sociologists today continue to examine how such social issues are redefined by contemporary processes of individualisation, globalisation and the rapid growth of new forms of communication.
Within this broad framework, a central theme of Sociology at Brunel is the study of the development of social change and transformations. Among the more specific interests of Brunel sociologists are, for example, the public sphere, social theory, celebrity culture, the influence of the media, media regulation, urban spaces, crime and addiction, multiculturalism and comedy cultures. These various interests strongly reflect the options available in the third level of the course.

The focus of study is upon all aspects of human behaviour: its personal, social and cultural dimensions. We have a strong research reputation that enhances all our undergraduate teaching, with particular expertise in areas such as: neuropsychology; psychoanalysis; developmental psychology; social psychology; contemporary social structure and social change; the role of science and the media; ethnicity and kinship; and power, inequality and prejudice in modern societies. All of our academic staff are actively engaged in research and many have international reputations in their field.

We provide a stimulating introduction to the social sciences by teaching a broad base of cross-disciplinary modules in the first year. Thereafter, you specialise increasingly in your particular disciplines.

Our courses will help you to develop specific skills in the practical methods associated with your discipline, including ethnographic fieldwork. A full range of laboratory and technical facilities is used in the teaching of experimental psychology, video production, psychophysics and the use of information technology.

Aims

You will develop specific skills in the practical methods associated with sociology and will explore in-depth the major issues and approaches within this and related disciplines. This is a broad-based degree which enables students to specialise in areas which particularly fascinate them.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 13000 Year (Non-EEA)
UK/EU students: £9,000 full-time; £1,000 placement year Start date September 2015 Duration:3-year full-time; 4-year thin-sandwich Credits (ECTS) 360 ECTS
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

This course provides a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the theories, methods and findings of sociology and social theory, and offers opportunities for specialisation in particular areas, such as health and illness, deviance, social theory, the media and culture, race and ethnicity, and the sociology of urban spaces.

Level 1

Level 1 will introduce you to the main themes in the social sciences.
Typical modules:

  • Introduction to Sociology

  • Globalisation

  • Introduction to Social and Cultural Research

  • Media, Culture and Society

  • Introduction to Social Enquiry

  • Individual and Social Processes

Level 2

At Level 2, you will take modules in sociological theory and methods and contemporary social institutions. You can also follow modules chosen from the other social sciences.

Typical modules:

  • Social Divisions

  • Sociology of Everyday Life: Issues in Contemporary Culture

  • Research in Practice

  • Work and Society

Plus two options from:

  • Ethnography of the Contemporary World

  • Media Genres and Society

  • History and Theory of Social Anthropology

  • British Ethnic Minorities

Level 3

At Level 3, you can choose from a variety of options including celebrities, representation and power, new media, media discourses and media audiences.
Typical modules:

  • City Lives: Bodies, Spaces and Interaction

  • Television Studies

  • Comedy, Culture and the Media

  • Understanding Audiences

  • Crime, Deviance and Addiction

  • Health and the New Politics of Protest

  • Sociology of Health and Illness

  • The Age of New Media

  • Multiculturalism

  • Popular Music and Popular Culture

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 580 TOEFL iBT® test : 92

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

take an IELTS test.

Requirements

  • GCE A-level BBB

  • BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDD in a related subject.

  • BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in a related subject with an A-Level at grade B.

  • BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-Levels grade BB.

  • International Baccalaureate Diploma 32 points.

  • Access to Higher EducationDiploma Complete and pass a related subject Access course with 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2 with Merits in all units.

GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.

Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSE’s.

English Language Requirements

  • IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)

  • Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)

  • BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.

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