Sociology Undergraduate Modules 2023-24

The module details in this section are only applicable to students who will be studying them between September 2023 and August 2024.

If you wish to look at details for a module you studied in an earlier academic year please see undergraduate modules for other academic years.

If you intend to study one of these modules from September 2024 or later, you may refer to these descriptors as a guide; but please be aware that details they contain – including (but not limited to) reading lists, duration and assessments – may change for your academic year.

Note

The module list for Level One is currently incomplete; this will be finalised in August 2023.
The next compiled module list for the September 2024 - August 2025 academic year will be published here in March 2024 (exact date to be confirmed).

Information for Inbound Exchange Students

Please note that inbound study abroad students studying in Exeter/Penryn for one semester only can only choose from modules that are running in either Term 1 or Term 2. You are not able to choose modules that run in Terms '1 and 2' as these modules run for the full year.

Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SOC1003	Imagining Social Worlds: Texts	15	1
SOC1019	Contemporary Society: Themes and Perspectives	15	1
SOC1020	Contemporary Society: Field and Case Studies	15	2
SOC1028	Media and Society	15	2
SOC1039	Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance	15	1
SOC1040	Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology	15	2
SOC1045	Introduction to Criminal Justice	15	2
SOC1047	Imagining Social Worlds: Qualitative Research	15	2
SOC1048	Social Analysis I	15	1
SOC1049	Social Analysis II	15	2

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)

Q Step and College Modules at Level One

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI1002	Programming for the Social Sciences	30
SSI1004	Social Problems	15
SSI1005	Introduction to Social Data	15	1
SSI1006	Data Analysis in Social Science 1	15	2

Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SOC2004	Into the Field	15	2
SOC2005	Theoretical Sociology	30	1 and 2
SOC2009	Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives	15	2
SOC2024	Power and Domination	15	1
SOC2025	Current Themes in the Sociology of Sport	15	1
SOC2030	Sociology of Art and Culture	15	2
SOC2034	Gender and Society 1	15	2
SOC2035	International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology	15	2
SOC2036	International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime	15	1
SOC2037	Pharmaceutical Cultures	15	2
SOC2038	On Violence	15	1
SOC2039	Sociology of Family and Gender	15	2
SOC2046A	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
SOC2050	Knowing the Social World	15	1
SOC2052	Environments in Public	15	1
SOC2062	How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions	15	2
SOC2063	Policy Analysis in Criminology	15	1
SOC2064	Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	1
SOC2068	Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation	15	1
SOC2069	Crimes of the Powerful	15	1
SOC2085	Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control	15	1
SOC2086	Addiction	30	1 and 2
SOC2087	Disability and Society	15	2
SOC2088	Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society	15	2
SOC2096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
SOC2097	Environment and Society	15	1
SOC2098	Sociology of Imprisonment	15	1
SOC2101	Police and Policing	15	2
SOC2103	Senses and Society	15	2
SOC2104	Victimology	15	1
SOC2107	Culture and Wellbeing	15	2
SOC2110	Consumption and Society	15	1
SOC2114	Anthropology of the State	15	2
SOC2116	Sociology and Demography of Religion	15	1
SOC2121	Cybercrime	15	1
SOC2122	Digital Society	15	1
SOC2126	Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice	15	2
SOC2127	Philosophy and Sociology of Race	15	1
SOC2129	Climate Change in Global and Local Perspectives	15	1
SOC2130	When Things Fall Apart: Social Infrastructures	15	2
SOC2131	Social Media, Disinformation, and Authoritarianism	15	1
SOC2133	The Anthropology of Prisons	15	2
SOC2134	Emotions, the Body, and the Social	15	1
SOC2135	Forensic Cultures	15	1
SOC2136	Deprivation of liberty: Imprisonment and beyond	15	2

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SPA2001	Debates, Issues and Practices	15	1
SPA2005	Asking the Right Question: Surveys in the Social Sciences	15	2
SPA2006	Understanding Social Inequalities	15	1

Q Step and College Modules at Level Two

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI2001	Learning from Work Experience in Social Sciences	15	1 and 2
SSI2004	Research Design in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI2005	Data Analysis in Social Science 2	15	1
SSI2006	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI2007	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	2
SSI2008	Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences	15	2

Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SOC3002	On Violence	15	1
SOC3013	Gender and Society 1	15	2
SOC3030	Sociology of Art and Culture	15	2
SOC3034	International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology	15	2
SOC3035	Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives	15	2
SOC3036	International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime	15	1
SOC3040	Dissertation	30	1 and 2
SOC3046A	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
SOC3080	Pharmaceutical Cultures	15	2
SOC3085	Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control	15	1
SOC3086	Addiction	30	1 and 2
SOC3087	Disability and Society	15	2
SOC3088	Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society	15	2
SOC3096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
SOC3097	Environment and Society	15	1
SOC3098	Sociology of Imprisonment	15	1
SOC3101	Police and Policing	15	2
SOC3103	Senses and Society	15	2
SOC3104	Victimology	15	1
SOC3107	Culture and Wellbeing	15	2
SOC3108	Sociology of Family and Gender	15	2
SOC3110	Consumption and Society	15	1
SOC3114	Anthropology of the State	15	2
SOC3117	Environments in Public	15	1
SOC3118	Sociology and Demography of Religion	15	1
SOC3120	How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions	15	2
SOC3121	Policy Analysis in Criminology	15	1
SOC3122	Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	1
SOC3126	Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation	15	1
SOC3127	Crimes of the Powerful	15	1
SOC3129	Cybercrime	15	1
SOC3130	Digital Society	15	1
SOC3134	Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice	15	2
SOC3135	Philosophy and Sociology of Race	15	1
SOC3137	Climate Change in Global and Local Perspectives	15	1
SOC3138	When Things Fall Apart: Social Infrastructures	15	2
SOC3139	Social Media, Disinformation, and Authoritarianism	15	1
SOC3141	The Anthropology of Prisons	15	2
SOC3142	Emotions, the Body, and the Social	15	1
SOC3143	Forensic Cultures	15	1
SOC3144	Security, Society, and Algorithms	15	2
SOC3145	Deprivation of liberty: Imprisonment and beyond	15	2
SOC3146	Forensics in Policing	15	2
SOC3147	Power and Domination	15	1

Interdisciplinary Modules at Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SPA3001	Debates, Issues and Practices	15	1
SPA3003	Data Justice and Surveillance Capitalism	15	1

Q Step and College Modules at Level Three

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)
SSI3002	Immigration in Western Societies	15	1
SSI3003	Data Analysis in Social Science 3	15	2
SSI3017	Learning from Work Experience in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI3019	Quantitative Dissertation	30	1 and 2
SSI3020	Employment Experience (UK and Abroad)	120	1, 2 and 3
SSI3021	Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences	15	2
SSI3999	Year Abroad	120	1 and 2