Skip to main content
Panoramic collage of university campus architecture

BA(Hons) Education and Sociology

Keele University, United Kingdom
See University Details Apply with BHE UNI
Save

Course Overview

Our graduates have the skills to enter occupations in a variety of fields. This can include careers in educational institutions, politics, 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 local government. Some of our graduates choose to pursue further academic study. If you are thinking about working abroad after graduation, there may be the opportunity for you to gain an enhanced degree title that includes a foreign language competency - such as BA (Hons) in Education and Sociology with competency in German. Also, if you choose an International Year abroad, you can graduate with an enhanced degree title.

General Eligibility

A LEVEL REQUIREMENTS

  • BBC

GCSE REQUIREMENTS

  • English at C (or 4)

BTEC

  • DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Understanding Learning

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Social inequalities in the contemporary world

  • Classical Sociology

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Childhood, Policy and Education

  • Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling

  • Social inequalities in the contemporary world

  • Too Poor to Learn: Poverty, Education and Social Policy

  • Modern Democracies

  • Classical Sociology

  • Investigating Social Issues

  • Social and Political Theory

  • Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures

  • The Anthropological Imagination

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Education Matters: Contemporary Issues and Debates in Education

  • Research Strategies and Methods in Education

  • Contemporary Social Theory

  • Research Methods

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Play, Power and Pedagogy

  • British Government and Politics

  • Globalisation and its Discontents

  • Special Education: introduction to theory and practice

  • COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

  • Education placement

  • Work, Identities and Skills

  • Families and Households: Diversity and Change

  • Producing Sociological Knowledge

  • The Magic of Modernity

3 Year 3

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Inclusive Education

  • Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood

  • Moving People: Migration, emotion, identity

  • Independent Research Project - ISP

  • Race, Politics and Education

  • Education, Work and Identity

  • Higher Education: policy and the student experience

  • Consuming Nature

  • Celebrity

  • Dissertation - ISP

  • Visual Pleasures: From Carnival to Disney

  • Home: belonging, locality and material culture

  • Gender, Power and Representation

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component or equivalent.

Similar Courses

Other programmes you might be interested in.

Undergraduate

BA (Hons) EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES

University of East London · £9,250, £13,320
Undergraduate

BA Language and/with History of Art with Foundation

Birkbeck University of London · £ 6935, £10710
Undergraduate

BA (Hons) Primary Early Years Education with QTS

Edge Hill University · Home full-time: £9,250, International full-time: £15,500

Ready to get started?

For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

Contact Us
Call
WhatsApp
Email