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E D U C AT I O N A N D S O C I O L O G Y
BA (Hons)
Why study this course?
Education and Sociology provide the perfect combination if you are interested in the
connections between education and societies. This research-led and interdisciplinary
degree will enable you to explore the key social issues facing contemporary societies
and to reflect on the role of education in our lives and futures.
By taking this combined programme, you will study educational practices
and processes from a variety of perspectives. You will define, describe and
work with key concepts such as equality of opportunity, class, gender,
marketization and social exclusion. You will learn to relate contemporary
education policy to wider processes of global, economic, cultural and social
changes and have opportunities to observe how these processes affect
teaching practice by doing placements.
The compulsory sociology modules will provide you with a grounding
in the key areas of the discipline: inequalities, social theory, and research
methods. Our programme also covers a wide range of topics including
families, activism and protest, social media, globalisation, and belief systems.
Studying Sociology will enable you to think independently, critically, and
imaginatively about the issues that shape our everyday lives and our
futures.
What will this mean for my future?
Our graduates have the skills to enter occupations in a variety of fields. This
can include careers in educational institutions, politics, the civil service or
business. You might seek to develop a career in the creative industries, social
care, the health sector, advertising and marketing, the charity sector, youth
services, and the local government. Some of our graduates choose to pursue
further academic study.
If you are thinking about working abroad after graduation, you can gain an
enhanced degree title that includes a foreign language competency - such
as 'BA (Hons) in Education and Sociology with competency in German' by
studying one of our foreign languages. Also, if you choose an International
Year abroad, you can also graduate with an enhanced degree title, for
example, 'BA (Hons) in Education and Sociology with International Year'.
UCAS Code - LX33
Foundation Year
Yes
Indicative Entry
Requirements
Combined Honours
A level: BCC-CCC
BTEC: DMM-MMM
Indicative Modules
First Year
• Back to the Future: Issues in the
History of Schooling
• Too Poor to Learn: Poverty, Education
and Social Policy
• Social Inequalities in the
Contemporary World
• Classical Sociology
• Investigating Social Issues
• The Anthropological Imagination
Second Year
• Education Matters: Contemporary
Issues and Debates in Education
• Play, Power and Pedagogy
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Social Movements
• Witchcraft, Zombies and Social
Anxiety
• Cultures of Consumption
Third Year
• Dissertation in Education or Sociology
• Educating for Global Citizenship
• The Making of Professionals
• Education, Work and Identity
• Sociology of Parenting and Early
Childhood
• Celebrity
Course Duration
3 or 4 years with an
international year
Study abroad
Yes
International Year
Yes
Learn a Language
Yes
For further information on entry requirements please visit keele.ac.uk/entryrequirements