BSc in Sociology

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Programme Code: UBSO2

Department: Sociology

For all first, second and third  year students in 2017/18.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the BA/BSc degrees (other than four-year BA/BSc degrees)

Paper

Course number and title

See note

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

Year 1

1

SO102

Statistics in Society

2

SO100

Social Theory

3

SO110

Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology 

4

Either PS102 Social Psychology or an approved Level 1 paper taught outside the Department or another paper taught outside the Department subject to the approval of your personal tutor and the Department Tutor. 

Year 2

5

SO221

Researching London: Methods for Social Research

6

SO201

Key Issues in Sociological Analysis

7

An approved Year 2 or 3 Sociology Option to the value of one full unit

8

Either an approved Year 2 or 3 Sociology Option to the value of one full unit or an approved paper from outside the Department

Year 3

9

SO302

The Sociological Dissertation

10

An approved Year 2 or 3 Sociology Option to the value of one full unit

11

An approved Year 2 or 3 Sociology Option to the value of one full unit

12

Either an approved Year 2 or 3 Sociology Option to the value of one full unit or an approved Year 2 or 3 paper taught outside the Department.

Notes

LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification.
 

Sociology Option List

SO203

Political Sociology

SO208

Gender and Society

SO210

Crime, Deviance and Control (cannot be taken with SA217, SA218 (not available 2017/18) or SA309)

SO211

Sociology of Health and Medicine (withdrawn 2017/18)

SO224

The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

SO230

Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (not available 2017/18)

SO231

Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (H)

SO232

Sociology of Health and Illness (H)

SO233

Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: The Rise of Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (H)

SO308

Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family

SO309

Atrocity and Justice (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO310

The Sociology of Elites (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO311

Law and Violence (H) (available to students in Year 3 only)

SO312

Work, Inequality and Society (H)

SO313

Material Culture and Everyday Life (H)

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