This section describes which Units you will take in which year of study. It indicates which units are mandatory and where you will be able to choose. The overall pass marks you will need to achieve in order to progress or achieve an award are shown. The full regulations concerning progression and completion are held in the University's Regulations and Code of Practice. Any particular aspects of your programme that are unusual will be highlighted. If any Units are must pass this will be shown below. The linked unit specifications detail any additional requirements.
What do the teaching blocks (TB) mean?
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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Students must select 20 credit points from the following units: | ||||
Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Select two units (40 credits) from the following units: *For those planning to undertake a dissertation in the final year, you must select either SOAD20004 or SOCI20079 in your second year of studies | ||||
Social Policy and Development | SPOL20050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Health Policy in a Global Context (SPS) | SPOL20061 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy | SPOL20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Punishment in Society | SPOL20052 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Social Care in Crisis | SPOL20047 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Social Research Methods | SOAD20004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Work and Work Placements: Social Policy | SPOL20042 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
Understanding Public Policy | SPOL20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Crime, Harm and Money | SPOL20064 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Harms of the Powerful | SPOL20034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
International Political Economy and Social Policy | SPOL20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Youth Policy and Social Welfare | SPOL22022 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Students must choose 20 credit points from the following units: | ||||
Conceptualising the Social | SOCI20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Investigating Society (Sociology) | SOCI20079 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Students must select 40 credit points from the following units: | ||||
Conceptualising the Social | SOCI20016 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Ethnicity and Racism | SOCI20017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Sociology of Health and Illness | SOCI20035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Sociology of Gender | SOCI20042 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Class and Social Divisions | SOCI20045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Environment and Society | SOCI20049 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
East Asian Societies: Alternative Modernities | SOCI20076 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Investigating Society (Sociology) | SOCI20079 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Principles of Quantitative Social Science | SOCI20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
What is a Society? | SOCI20075 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Art and Society | SOCI20087 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Conducting a Research Project using Secondary Data | POLI20001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Digital Society | SOCI20077 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Sociology of Childhood and Rights | SOCI20078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Students also have the option of taking a Teaching Block abroad as long as they meet all grade and other requirements set by SPAIS study abroad programme | ||||
Study Abroad (Term) | SPAI20030 | 60 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 |
Diploma of Higher Education | 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).
Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions of the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
For further information and a definition of must pass units and conditional progression please see the Glossary of Terms.