BA Sociology [L30F]

Academic Year
2025/2026
Campus
Aberystwyth
Single Honours
scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time)
4 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

Part 1 Rules

Year 1

Core (100 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Introduction to Social Science

GS09720

20

Semester 1

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS01120

20

Semester 1

How to be a Student 1

GS09520

20

Semester 1

How to be a Student 2

GS09320

20

Semester 2

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

GS09620

20

Semester 2

Options (20 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

GS09820

20

Semester 2

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS00820

20

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2

Core (80 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Thinking Sociologically

GS15120

20

Semester 1

Introducing Sociological Research

GS17100

0

Semester 1

Introducing Sociological Research

GS17120

20

Semester 2

Place and Identity

GS14220

20

Semester 2

Key Concepts in Sociology

GS16120

20

Semester 2

Options (20 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Studying Media

FM10620

20

Semester 1

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

GS10220

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 1

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

DA10000

0

Semester 1

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10000

Module in Welsh

0

Semester 1

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

DA10520

20

Semester 1

Globalization and Global Development

IP12520

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

DA10020

20

Semester 2

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10020

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

PS11820

20

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 3

Core (80 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Genders and Sexualities

GS20220

20

Semester 1

Cementing Sociological Research

GS20620

20

Semester 1

Sociological Research in the 'Field'

GS21220

20

Semester 2

Sociological Theory

GS25020

20

Semester 2

Options (40 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Placing Culture

GS22920

20

Semester 1

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

IQ23920

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 1

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

IQ23920

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 1

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

DA20820

20

Semester 1

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

GQ23920

20

Semester 1

Placing Politics

GS23020

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

DA23020

20

Semester 2

Advertising

FM21920

20

Semester 2

Final Year

Core (60 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Sociology Dissertation

GS31200

Module in Welsh

0

Semester 1

Everyday Social Worlds

GS33320

20

Semester 1

Sociology Dissertation

GS31240

Module in Welsh

40

Semester 2

Options (40 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

DA32220

20

Semester 1

Gender and the Media

FM38320

20

Semester 1

Landscape, Culture and Society in 20th Century Britain

GS36220

20

Semester 1

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

GS37520

20

Semester 1

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS36820

20

Semester 2

The psychosocial century

GS30020

20

Semester 2

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power

GS37920

20

Semester 2

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