BA (Hons) Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
BA (Hons) Sociology
Explore what unites and divides us, how we make sense of our relationships, and understand our place in the world around us. On Goldsmiths innovative BA Sociology programme, youll look at contemporary global events as you explore issues of social inequality, culture, power, and identity.
Overview
The first year of the degree gets you thinking sociologically and critically, and introduces the ways in which sociological knowledge of societies has been shaped by disputes about theories and methods. First year modules address problems that have interested sociologists in their attempts to account for the world we live in. You will start to understand how the meaning derived from sociological investigations operates in cultural processes, and look at the methods that have been developed by sociologists to produce sociological knowledge.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1 compulsory modules
- Critical Readings: the Emergence of the Sociological Imagination 1A
- Researching Society and Culture 1A
- Modern Knowledge, Modern Power
- Culture and Society
- Researching Society and Culture 1B
- Critical Readings: the Emergence of the Sociological Imagination 1B
Year 2 compulsory modules
- Central Issues in Sociological Analysis
- The Making of the Modern World
- Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
- Sociology of Culture and Communication
- Researching Society and Culture 2A
- Researching Society and Culture
Year 2 option modules
- Sex, Drugs & Technology
- Leisure, Culture and Society
- Space, Place & Power
- Art and Society
- Organisations and Society
- Culture, Representation and Difference
- London
- Marxism
- The Body: Social Theory and Social Practice
- Social Change and Political Action
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Migration in Context
Year 3 compulsory modules
- Identity and Contemporary Social Theory
- Confronting the climate crisis
Year 3 Sociology modules
- Race, Racism and Social Theory
- Global Development and Underdevelopment
- Sociology of Visuality
- Childhood Matters: Society, Theory and Culture
- Making Data Matter
- Sociologies of Emerging Worlds
- Privacy, Surveillance and Security
- Philosophy, Politics and Alterity
- Subjectivity, Health and Medicine
- Philosophy and Power: The Philosopher and the Colonies
- Migration, Gender and Social Reproduction
- Thinking Animals
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Sociologists enter careers that centre on the challenges and demands that members of a society face. This could be jobs in social services, education, criminal justice, welfare services, government, the voluntary sector, management, the creative industries, marketing and policy.
Over the last three years, some of the graduate level careers for Goldsmiths Sociology graduates have been:
- Events co-ordinator
- Grants officer
- Housing and welfare officer
- Learning support worker
- Local Government graduate trainee
- Marketing Manager
- Personnel manager and officer
- Public relations officer
- Researcher
- Social and youth worker
- Sustainability officer
English Language Requirements
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