📖Program Curriculum
Year 1
Core Modules
Credits
Wellbeing in Society
20.00
This module explores the emergence of the wellbeing agenda. The significance of physical and mental health to experiences of wellbeing across the life-course and for diverse social groups will be discussed. It also examine the importance of community diversity and appraising how policy and service interventions impact on health and wellbeing.
Sociology of Health
20.00
On this module you’ll explore the social construction of health and illness in contemporary society. It introduces the theory of sociology of the body mental health and the role of both the professions and the relationship between health and society. It explores the anthropology of health and relate this to notions of illness across cultures.
Making Sense of Society
20.00
This module has two strands the first introduces you to issues in contemporary British (and other) societies. You’ll explore debates relating to society identity and diverse social groups. The second strand is the ‘Academic Skills’ programme which introduces you to the use of academic evidence and integrity as well as other key academic skills.
Policy and Society
20.00
On this module you’ll examine the scope of policy and the policy-making process. You’ll discuss what is meant by a ‘social problem’ by examining political ideologies and the shifting relationship between state and citizen. We’ll explore policy issues and how research is used to produce evidence to influence governments and other agencies.
Media Communication and Society
20.00
This module introduces you to the key debates issues and relevance of the character role and impact of all forms of media in contemporary societies. You’ll explore the many ways in which media infiltrates and shapes our social worlds giving you a working understanding of the social science of the many-sided facets of media. As most workplaces...
Opportunity Modules
You must choose 2 x 10 credit Level 4 Opportunity modules from the Opportunity module catalogue.
Year 2
Core Modules
Credits
Employability and Professional Development
20.00
On this module we’ll support your work-related learning activities and encourage you to reflect on your development as future graduate employees. You’ll apply learning from your degree to practice and set goals for your development as future professionals. You’ll be supported in setting goals and developing plans for your work- related activities.
Contemporary Social Research
20.00
This module builds your knowledge of research methods. You’ll examine key concepts from social research and discuss the important contribution of research to your discipline area. You’ll be introduced to research issues and gain a foundation for the understanding of research methods required for your dissertation and career development.
Ethical Issues in Social Science
20.00
This module allows you to analyse ethical issues within the social sciences and apply ethical principles to moral dilemmas. It draws on every-day experiences and case studies to explore contemporary problems conflicts and tensions for individuals agencies and practitioners in optimising individuals’ autonomy alongside the needs of wider society.
Optional Modules
Credits
Social Diversity: Race Gender and Sexuality
20.00
This module explores the concepts significance and lived realities of social diversity in contemporary societies. It draws on everyday experiences of social diversity. The module makes sense of these by critically engaging with academic work on discrimination late modernity feminisms social harm and multi-culturalism/integration and identity.
Work Welfare and Policy
20.00
This module examines the changing nature of work and employment the changing character and aims of welfare provision and the way both remain involved in the production of individual and social welfare in different contexts. This entails examining social and organisational structures relevant to work and employment in contemporary society.
Human Rights and Global Development
20.00
The module explores the main systems for the protection of human rights allowing you to develop sound knowledge and understanding of the linkages between human rights and development from a historical theoretical and practical perspective. You’ll develop knowledge of relevant concepts and principles underpinning human rights frameworks.
Opportunity Modules
In addition you must choose 2 x 10 credit Level 5 Opportunity modules from the Opportunity module catalogue.
Year 3
Core Modules
Credits
Dissertation
40.00
This module provides a supportive framework for undertaking an independent extended research study. You’ll choose which type and methodology of research to follow in this project such as a literature-based project; an empirical project using various methods; or an applied dissertation. The bulk of teaching involves individual supervision sessions....
Global Health
20.00
We’ll examine health wellbeing and environment issues applying theoretical perspectives from medical anthropology epidemiology globalisation and risk and relate these to socio-cultural determinants of health and impact of global demographic changes. You’ll gain skills to make a difference in the search for equity and global justice in health.
Optional Modules
Credits
Disability Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
20.00
This module critically examines the issue of vulnerability in relation to the criminal justice system. It focuses on issues pertaining to disability and mental health both in the context of offenders and victims. You’ll develop a critical analytical approach by applying relevant concepts to contemporary practices to aid understanding.
Ageing through the life course
20.00
This module explores the significance of how people age through the life course in contemporary societies from childhood to old age. Through the lens of age and ageing as a social construct you’ll explore societal impacts on people’s experiences of age and ageing as well as on ways in which wellbeing can be achieved through the life course.
Body Culture and Society
20.00
The module examines the social and cultural construction of the body in contemporary society and lived experiences of embodied agents. It draws on insights from the sociology of the body and conceptual frameworks that foreground the body in order to deepen understanding of health and illness and their social determinants and to situate this withi...
Leadership and Teamwork
20.00
