Study Schemes

BA  Sociology [L30F]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

GS09720

Introduction to Social Science

Semester 2
GS09320

How to be a Student 2

GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 1  Options

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 2  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

GS17100

Introducing Sociological Research

Semester 2
GS14220

Place and Identity

GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

GS17120

Introducing Sociological Research

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits (20 credits from each semester). (20 credits may be taken from outside the department subject to approval and compatibility with timetabling.

Semester 1
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

DA10520

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

FM10620

Studying Media

GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10220

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

Semester 2
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

PS11820

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Part 2 Rules

Year 3  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS20620

Cementing Sociological Research

Semester 2
GS21220

Sociological Research in the 'Field'

GS25020

Sociological Theory

Year 3  Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

GS22920

Placing Culture

IQ23920

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

Semester 2
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

FM21920

Advertising

GS23020

Placing Politics

Final Year  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS31200

Sociology Dissertation

or
DA31200

Traethawd Estynedig Cymdeithaseg

GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

Semester 2
GS31240

Sociology Dissertation

or
DA31240

Traethawd Estynedig Cymdeithaseg

Final Year  Options

Choose 60 credits from the following. Up to 20 credits of the 60 may be taken from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the univeristy.

Semester 1
DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

FM38320

Gender and the Media

GS36220

Modern British Landscapes

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

Semester 2
GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS36820

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary