Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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Students select 60 credit points of optional units in Social Policy from the following list, either three 20 credit point units or one 20 credit point option plus the 40 credit point dissertation SPOL30017. Students who wish to take the Social Policy Dissertation unit in the final year must have selected SOAD20004 Social Research Methods or SOCI20079 Investigating the Social in Year 2. | ||||
Dissertation (Social Policy) | SPOL30017 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 |
Migration: UK, EU and Global Policy Perspectives | SPOL30069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Drugs and Society | SPOL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Societal Change and the Transformation of Work | SPOL32025 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Gender based Violence | SPOL30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Cities and communities in the urban age | SPOL30062 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Climate Emergency | SPOL30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Leisure, Pleasure and Harm | SPOL30063 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Understanding ‘Terrorism’ | SPOL30065 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Disability in Society | SPOL30075 | 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 |
Theorising Social Welfare | SPOL20059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
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 either SOAD20004 Social Research Methods or SOCI20079 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 |
Public Opinion and Democracy | SOCI30072 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Religion and Politics in the West | SOCI30074 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
The Feminist Sociology of Food | SOCI30104 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
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-2 |
Risk, Danger and Disaster | SOCI30098 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Social Networks | SOCI30100 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
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.