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
• Researching Society and Culture
• Sociology of Race
• Sociology of Education
• Class and Capitalism in a Neoliberal Word 
• Crime and Society
• History of Sociological Thought
• Criminology: Theories and Concepts
• Introduction to Social Analytics in Social Inequalities Research
• Borders, Migration and the State

Year 2

• Social Theory of Law
• 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
• War, Memory and Society
• Media, Audiences and Social Change
• Gender, Race and Sexualities in the Criminal Justice System: Policy and Practice
• Surveillance and Security: Race, Gender, Class
• Gender & Violence
• Powerful Feelings
• Environmental Sociology
• Policing and Society
• Youth, Crime and Criminal Justice
• Mobility in the Digital Age
• Contention, Conflict, and Climate Change

Final year

• Dissertation
• Racisms and Antiracisms
• Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Intellectuals
• Punishment, Justice and Control
• State Crime, Human Rights and Global Wrongs 
• Numbers in the Workplace (Placement)
• Sociology of Film, Film as Sociology
• Drugs, Crime & Society
• Employer Project for Social Sciences
• Work Placement
• The Social Life of Things
• Postcolonial Theory and Politics
• Queering Sociology 
• Sociology of End Times
• Social Data Science
• Transnational Media Ecologies
• Indigenous and Global South Feminisms
• Sociology and Popular Writing (Warwick Journal of Sociology)
• Decolonising Ecology: Race, Coloniality and the Climate Crisis