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Education and Sociology
Key Information
Why study this course?

Education and Sociology provide the perfect combination if you are
interested in the connections between education and the societies in
which we live.  
If you choose this combination, you will study educational topics such
as the nature of learning, the history of education, and educational
policies and practices that aim to promote inclusion and social cohesion.
Our Sociology programme will provide you with a grounding in the
core concerns of the discipline, develop your skills in social research,
and enable you to explore a range of contemporary social issues.
In the Education strand, you will explore changes in policy and practice,
as well as the effects of factors such as class, race and gender on
educational success. The Sociology strand explores how we live as
individuals and as members of communities in a world characterised by
rapid social, economic and cultural change. The combination of degree
subjects offers you the opportunity to apply your learning to some of the
most important challenges facing society today.

Indicative modules

First year
• Understanding Learning
• Education in Britain: Past,
Present, Future
• Classical Sociology
• Social Inequalities in the
Contemporary World
Second year
• Education Matters:
Contemporary Issues
and Debates in Education
• Research Strategies and
Methods in Education
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Research Methods in Sociology
Third year
• Education Dissertation
(Independent research project)
• Sociology Dissertation
• Education, Work and Identity
• Higher Education: Policy
and the Student Experience
• Moving people: Migration,
Emotion and Identity
• Sociology of Parenting
and Early Childhood

• Race, Politics and Education
• Education for Global Citizenship
• The Making of Professionals:
Education, Health and
Social Work
• Celebrity
• Sex, Death Desire:
Psychoanalysis
in Social Context
• Streets, Skyscrapers, and Slums:
The City in Social, Cultural,
and Historical Context

Course type
Dual honours

For information on dual
honours combinations please
visit www.keele. ac.uk/
ugcourses

Course duration
Three years

Indicative entry
requirements
BBB or ABC

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

What will this mean
for my future?

When you graduate, as well as
the opportunity to pursue further
academic study you might choose
to do a PGCE and become a
teacher. Students who have
studied these disciplines have
entered a wide variety of careers
including local government, media
and communications, sales and
marketing, banking, and the
legal profession.

For more course information please visit

keele.ac.uk/ugcourses

Maria Indjeian Diaz
Education and Sociology,
First year

I love the way the modules have
subjects that cover many domains;
for example, an education module
may include art, history and
politics. It is a privilege to be able
to learn a subject from so many
perspectives and at the same
time be able to link, compare
and contrast all of them.
Smart minds choose Keele

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