Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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Students select 3 optional units in Social Policy from the following list, or one option plus the dissertation SPOL30017. | ||||
Dissertation (Social Policy) | SPOL30017 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Migration Policy in the UK and European Union | SPOL30030 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Comparative Social Policy in a Globalizing World | SPOL30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Social Policy and the European Union | SPOL30051 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Health Policy in a Global Context | SPOL30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Punishment in Society | SPOL30052 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Personal Welfare Services | SPOL30053 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Youth Justice | SPOL32006 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Children in a Global Context | SPOL32008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Gender based Violence | SPOL30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The State of Welfare | SPOL30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Students who were abroad in the second year and so did not take all mandatory second year units, must include appropriately from: | ||||
Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Students must choose 60 credit points from the following units. Please note that students cannot take more than 40 credits of independent study (dissertation units or extended essays). To take the Sociology Dissertation you must have taken `Investigating the Social' in your second year: | ||||
Dissertation | SOCI30050 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
The Sociology of Popular Music | SOCI30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Perspectives on Power | SOCI30062 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Cultural Representation | SOCI30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Public Opinion and Democracy | SOCI30072 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Religion and Politics in the West | SOCI30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Belief in Contemporary Society | SOCI30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Feminist Politics of Food | SOCI30079 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Nations and Nationalism | SOCI30082 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Gender and Migration | SOCI30091 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Modern Slavery: Issues and Debates | SOCI30097 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Risk, Danger and Disaster | SOCI30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Consumption, Consumer Culture and Sustainability | SOCI30103 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Social Policy and Sociology (BSc) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.