Politics and Sociology

Description

Politics and political events dominate domestic and international news and impact on our day-to-day lives, as well as shaping the future. Our BA Politics and Sociology explores major areas of political science, including political systems, political behaviour and political ideas. Sociology analyses the different kinds of social tensions, interactions and networks that make up everyday life. It asks why individuals, groups, cultures and people are the way they are and how they might be different. These two disciplines offered here by two of the UKs leading social science departments - combine well together. Both pose broad questions about the world and offer practical research skills to help you to investigate these questions.

Detailed Course Facts

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

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first and second-year you will have 90 credits of compulsory modules 30 credits of optional modules. For BA Sociology and Politics your first-year optional modules can be chosen from within our Faculty of Social Science and Faculty of Humanities and Comparative Studies. Your second and third-year modules can be chosen from our Department of Sociology and our Department of Government. There is a great deal of choice for these modules. In your final year you will have 30 credits of compulsory modules and 90 credits of optional modules.
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

Introduction to Politics;
Sociology and the Modern World; ; and
one social science option or one humanities option

Year 2

Introduction to Political Theory;
Continuity and Controversy in Sociology;
Researching Social Life 2 or Political Analysis; and
one politics or sociology option

Year 3

Current Disputes in Sociology;
one politics option;
one politics or sociology option; and
either a project in politics or a project in sociology or one politics or sociology option

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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

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

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.