Our undergraduate courses allow you to customise your degree depending on your interests and career goals. Please see a full list of typical topics that are covered on our undergraduate courses.

Please note that any optional modules listed below are indicative and may vary slightly from year to year.

Year 1

• International Perspectives on Gender
• Sociology of Gender
• Life of Media: Past, Present and Future
• Researching Society and Culture
• Sociology of Race
• Class and Capitalism in the Neoliberal World
• Crime and Society
• History of Sociological Thought
• Criminology: Theories and Concepts
• Introduction to Social Analytics and Social Inequalities Research

Year 2

• Social Theory Of Law
• Commercial Cultures in Global Capitalism
• Political Sociology
• Designing and Conducting Social Research
• Practice and Interpretation of Quantitative Research
• Educational Inequalities
• Modern Social Theory
• Relationship and Family Change: Demographic and Sociological Perspectives
• Becoming Yourself: The Construction of the Self in Contemporary Western Societies
• Media, Audiences and Social Change
• Advanced theory in Criminology and Social Justice
• Gender, Race and Sexualities in the Criminal Justice System: Policy and Practice
• Surveillance and Security: Race, Gender, Class
• Disability, Inequality, and the Life Course
• Beyond the Binary: Trans-forming Gender
• Gender & Violence
• Environmental Sociology
• Multivariate Secondary Analysis of Social Data
• Policing and Society

Final year

• Dissertation
• Racism and Xenophobia
• Race, Resistance and Modernity
• Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Intellectuals
• Punishment, Justice and Control
• State Crime, Human Rights & Global Wrongs
• Applying Quantitative Methods to Social Research
• Experiments in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Determinants of Democracy: Analysing Emergence, Survival and Fall
• Transnational Media Ecologies
• Feminist Pedagogy Feminist Activism
• Postcolonial Theory and Politics
• Queering Sociology
• Sociology of End Times
• Social Data Science
• Sociology and Popular Writing (Warwick Journal of Sociology)
• The Sociology of Green Transformations