Sociology with Human Rights

Description

What holds societies together? Do people pull together because they have to or because they want to? What motivates so many people to migrate from their own societies to others? What have been the major achievements, setbacks, and challenges to the global human rights movement? How do domestic and international politics interact in ways that are important for the promotion and protection of human rights?
Our BA Sociology with Human Rights allows you to study both areas of sociology and human rights. Sociology is the study of the different kinds of social tensions, interactions and networks that make up everyday life. We ask why individuals, groups, cultures and peoples are the way they are and how they might be different. We provide you with the practical means to investigate such questions through a range of research design techniques. Our study of human rights draws on law, politics and social science and focuses on the definition, development, defence and abuse of rights around the world.
Your modules are taught by our Department of Sociology and the Human Rights Centre. The first year includes an introduction to human rights and foundational courses in sociology. The second year includes the modules Issues and Methods in Human Rights and Continuity and Controversy in Sociology which develop research techniques and continues on from your first year module. In your final year you take Human Rights Colloquium and Current Disputes in Sociology. You will also write a supervised dissertation which is a great opportunity to evidence the skills you have developed to future employers or prepare for postgraduate study.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

In your first year you have 90 credits of compulsory modules and 30 credits of optional modules. For BA Sociology with Human Rights your optional modules can be chosen from within our Department of Sociology in first year and also from our Centre for Human Rights in your second and third year. During your second year you will have 60 credits of compulsory modules and you will take a further 60 credits of optional modules. In your final year you will have 90 credits of compulsory and 30 credits of optional modules, although 30 credits must be taken in the form of a dissertation.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Foundations of Human Rights;
Sociology and the Modern World;
Researching Social Life I; and
one sociology option

Year 2

Issues and Methods in Human Rights;
Continuity and Controversy in Sociology; and
two sociology or human rights options

Year 3

Human Rights Colloquium;
Current Disputes in Sociology;
Sociology Project; and
one sociology or human rights option

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis).
• BTEC qualifications, in relevant disciplines, will be considered on an individual basis, depending on the units studied. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).

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 University of Essex.

Funding

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