Sociology

Overview

Discover our range of Sociology modules for 2019-20.

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The range of modules offered may change each academic year.

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Further information

For further information about this subject, including any pre-requisites, visit the Sociology subject page.

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Stage 1

Find out about Sociology modules for Stage 1.

Students study either 40 or 60 credits from the list below in Stage 1.

Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.

Module Code	Module Title	Credit Value	Semester
SOC1027	Comparing Cultures (Recommended module if unable to take SOC1030)	20	1
SOC1029	Doing Sociology	20	1
SOC1030	The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to the Discipline (Recommended module)	20	1
SOC1031	Knowing in Sociology: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Epistemology	20	2
SOC1032	Politics and Society	20	2
SOC1033	Understanding Everyday Life (Capped at 125) (Involves one fieldtrip)	20	2

Stage 2

Find out about Sociology modules for Stage 2.

Students would study either 40, 60 or 80 credits from the list below in Stage 2.

Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.

Module Code	Module Title	Credit Value	Semester
SOC2056	Sociology of Health and Illness	20	2
SOC2058	Understanding Social Change and Transformation	20	1
SOC2067	Consumer Cultures: An Anthropological Perspective	20	1
SOC2069	Researching Social Life 1 (Co-requisite SOC2070)	20	1
SOC2070	Researching Social Life 2 (Co-requisite SOC2069) (Pre-requisite for SOC3097 dissertation in Sociology)	20	2
SOC2071	The Sociology of Childhood	20	2
SOC2084	Social Invention of Central Europe	20	1
SOC2085	Refugees and Displacement: Borders, Camps, and Asylum	20	2
SOC2086	Post-disciplinary Criminology: Hermeneutics, Poststructuralism and Cultural Theory	20	1
SOC2087	Identity and Difference in Multicultural Britain	20	2

Stage 3

Find out about Sociology modules for Stage 3.

Students study either 40, 60 or 80 credits from the list below in Stage 3.

Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.

Module Code	Module Title	Credit Value	Semester
SOC3077	Making People: Anthropology of Belonging, Life and Death	20	2
SOC3078	Dreamworlds: Society and the utopian imagination	20	2
SOC3084	Tools of Hope & Despair. Making Sense of Uncertainty & Expectation in Society	20	1
SOC3090	Investigating the Body: Sociological Debates about the Social, Legal and Creative Management of the Human Body	20	1
SOC3091	CSI Newcastle: The Sociology of the Forensic Sciences	20	1
SOC3092	Moral Dilemmas, Judgements and Debates: The Anthropology of Rights and Wrongs	20	1
SOC3096	Educational Inequalities in a Global Age	20	2
SOC3097	Dissertation in Sociology (Pre-requisite SOC2070)	40	1&2
SOC3098	Community and Conflict in the Countryside	20	2
SOC3099	Sociology of Race and Ethnicity	20	2