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

Academic Year 2025/2026

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

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

Semester 1
GS17100

Introducing Sociological Research

GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

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
DA10520

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

FM10620

Studying Media

GS10220

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

or
DA10520

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

Semester 2
IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

or
GW12520

Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang

DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

PS11820

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (100 Credits)

Semester 1
GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS20620

Cementing Sociological Research

CD20220

Graduate Career and Professional Development

Semester 2
GS25020

Sociological Theory

GS21220

Sociological Research in the 'Field'

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

or
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

Year 3 Core (120 Credits)

During your placement your registration will be:

Semester 1
GSS0300

Work Placement

or
DAS0300

Lleoliad Gwaith

GSS0200

Work Placement

or
DAS0200

Lleoliad Gwaith

Semester 2
GSS0260

Work Placement

or
DAS0260

Lleoliad Gwaith

GSS0360

Work Placement

or
DAS0360

Lleoliad Gwaith

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Semester 1
GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

GS31200

Sociology Dissertation

or
DA31200

Traethawd Estynedig Cymdeithaseg

Semester 2
GS31240

Sociology Dissertation

or
DA31240

Traethawd Estynedig Cymdeithaseg

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
FM38320

Gender and the Media

GS36220

Landscape, Culture and Society in 20th Century Britain

DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

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

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