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148 | Criminology, Education and Sociology
Education and Sociology
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, health, activism and protest, social media, globalisation, and
urban life. 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'.
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
• Health and Society
• City, Culture, Society
• 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
KEY INFORMATION
UCAS Code - LX33
Foundation Year
Yes
Indicative entry
requirements
Combined Honours
A level: BCC-CCC
BTEC: DMM-MMM
Course duration
3 years 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