Sociology (Joint Honours)

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What is joint honours?

With joint honours, you can study for an honours degree in two or even three subjects. Find out more about joint honours, including what subjects you can combine with this one.

Why choose this course?

This course can be combined with a range of other subjects, helping you to put yourself ahead in the job market by being more diverse to potential employers.
You'll have the chance to study and analyse issues of real importance in our complex, and often conflicting, modern social world.
You'll look at how religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender, and class affect our lives at home, in the workplace, in the street, in culture and the mass media.
There is the option to take a placement during this course allowing you to develop your knowledge of the workplace and to increase your employability.

About the course

Have you ever wondered:

why men and women get different rates of pay for doing the same job?
why racism exists?
why people kill and die for their religious beliefs?
where our ideas about sex, death, family, criminality and normality come from?
why music or sport or fashion or celebrity matter so much to us?

If so, you're already thinking like a sociologist. During this course, you'll find out the answers to these questions and look more closely at what makes our society tick and how societies can shape the people that live within them. You'll also gain skills in interviewing people and analysing facts and figures. This will help you to put a focus on your future career and develop the skills that employers look for.

You'll study the behaviour of people in groups and of the relationship between these groups. This balance of studying major issues of concern for society and linking this to different concepts and theories, allows you to develop important skills personally and socially.

We use a wide range of teaching methods to make the subject alive and to help you achieve your full potential from lectures and seminars to film and video. You'll be assessed in different ways so that you have a chance to show your individual strengths and abilities. You'll also be supported throughout your studies by our teaching team who are experienced, approachable and easily contacted.

By studying sociology as part of a joint honours, you can choose to take it as a major, joint or minor subject. If you study sociology as a major subject, you'll choose five or six modules at each stage. If you study it equally with another subject then you'll choose four modules at each stage. And if you study sociology as a minor subject, then you'll choose two or three modules at each stage.

Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...

Your career

Sean Silkstone, who now works for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC).

This course is based on the study of people in society, so the skills and knowledge you'll gain will be relevant to a wide range of careers. You'll also develop key research skills for understanding the lives of real people, which will open up a range of opportunities for you.

You could go into a career in health, education, social services or local government. You could also choose to work in leisure, public administration, tourism and heritage, or the media and cultural industries.

One of our recent graduates, Sean Silkstone now works for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) where he defends and protects sites from unauthorised access to nuclear material. Sean said: "The diverse nature of my course meant that I had the skills and experiences they were looking for." Read his full story here.

What our students say

"I enjoyed the course and it gave me the ability to go on and do post graduate research".

"I really appreciated the friendly and supportive learning environment."

How you'll learn

You'll be taught by academics who are leading national and international researchers in their specialist fields and passionate about their subject. They'll teach in a range of ways including lectures, seminars, individual tutorials, films and videos.

You'll be assessed in different ways but mainly by coursework.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012

UCAS code

Popular courses that can be combined with Sociology include:

Psychology
Film and Television Studies
Education Studies
Law
Popular Music Production
Human Resource Management
English
Criminology

Fees

This is a classroom based subject.

UK/EU students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £6,995 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £7,495 per year.

Part time:

You usually take 18 of these modules in total for your course

Modules from classroom based subjects will cost £875 per module.
Modules from resource intensive subjects will cost £935 per module.
Modules from specialist subjects will cost £1,000 per module.

International students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £9,700 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £9,975 per year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

More information about our fees for September 2012 and the support available