BA Sociology (with integrated year in Industry) [L303]

Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration 4 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

GS17100

Introducing Sociological Research

Semester 2
GS14220

Place and Identity

GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

GS17120

Introducing Sociological Research

Year 1 Options

Choose 40 credits (20 credits from each semester.) (20 credits may be taken from outside the department subject to approval and compatibility with timetabling.

Semester 1
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

DA10520

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

FM10620

Studying Media

GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10220

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

Semester 2
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

PS11820

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Year 2 Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
CD20220

Graduate Career and Professional Development

GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS20620

Cementing Sociological Research

Semester 2
GS21220

Sociological Research in the 'Field'

GS25020

Sociological Theory

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits from the following modules or from other modules offered in the university.

Semester 2
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

FM21920

Advertising

GS23020

Placing Politics

Year 3 Core (120 Credits)

During your placement your registration will be:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GSS0200

Work Placement
Module in Welsh▼

GSS0300

Work Placement
Module in Welsh▼

Semester 2
GSS0260

Work Placement
Module in Welsh▼

GSS0360

Work Placement
Module in Welsh▼

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS31200

Sociology Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼

GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

Semester 2
GS31240

Sociology Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits from the following. Up to 20 credits of the 60 may be taken from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the univeristy.

Semester 1
DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

FM38320

Gender and the Media

GS36220

Modern British Landscapes

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

Semester 2
GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS36820

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power