BSc (Hons) Sociology Degree • City St George's, University of London

Name: Sociology BSc (Hons)
Price: 9535 GBP

2025/26 entry

Clerkenwell campus

Details for 2026/27 entry are also available.

What is unique about this course?

Key information

Sociology is a fascinating subject that touches on every aspect of modern life, helping us understand society and our roles within it. On this London-based course, you will learn about the local and global forces that define our lives. You’ll become a critical thinker with a thorough understanding of social policy.

Start date

September 2025

UCAS code

L300

Duration

3 years full-time
4 years with placement or study abroad year

Institution

City St George's, University of London

Location

Clerkenwell campus

Entry requirements

Below is a list of countries with information on each about which qualifications we accept. If your country is not listed please email international@city.ac.uk.

English language requirements

If your first language is not English, we will require evidence of English language proficiency. Minimum requirements are:

IELTS:

6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each component.

PTE Academic: 59 overall with a minimum of 59 in each component.
Cambridge ESOL: CPE grade C or above

English language programmes

Don’t meet the English language requirements? INTO City, University of London offers English language programmes to help prepare you for study at university. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for entry to degree courses.

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Sociology BSc (Hons) degree Course overview

Our flexible three-year degree provides unrivalled opportunities to shape your studies to match your personal interests, whilst learning about society at the vibrant heart of a global city.

You’ll develop critical thinking studying topics including: social class, social mobility, ‘race' and ethnicity, gender, culture, identity, inequality, migration, media, and criminology.

You’ll also develop transferable skills in the analysis, interpretation and production of social data.

Develop highly sought-after data literacy and quantitative skills, thanks to our strong links with City’s Q-Step Centre
Become a critical thinker with an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay of local and global forces
Opt onto a Q-Step data analytics pathway: benefit from a heightened focus on data skills, a workplace Data Placement in Year 2, and an optional international work placement
Boost your employability with an optional placement year
Take advantage of excellent internship opportunities thanks to our central London location, including access to organisations in media, crime and justice, human rights, and mental health.

Affiliations

The degree's affiliation with the Q-Step Centre ensures that graduates possess strong data literacy and quantitative method skills, which are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as the government and local government, education, market research organisations, the not-for-profit sector, the financial sector, HR and the news media.

Structure

Course content

Choice and variety characterise this three-year BSc Sociology degree. Studying individually and in groups, you’ll explore society from all angles, before completing an in-depth investigation in your third year.

Through all core modules you will develop the Graduate Attributes, five core skillsets that will help you launch a successful, fulfilling career. Find out more about the Graduate Attributes.

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3

Year 1

The first year is highly structured to provide you with a firm foundation in the core aspects of Sociology. You study eight 15-credit core modules. You can also take a language module as a non-credit bearing module.

Year 2

Deepen your understanding of the subject with five core modules addressing race, gender, social change and more.
In Year 2 you will have the option to take the Data Analytics pathway (leading to a BSc Sociology with Data Analytics). This pathway includes seven core modules (those indicated by an asterisk below) and one elective of your choice.

Contemporary Social Theory* (15 credits)

This module focuses on the development of social theory in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Social Action Project (15 credits)

A sociological engagement with the community to apply learned principles, enhance reflexivity and employability and observe concepts in action.
Understanding Social Change* (15 credits)

Introduces you to a range of debates about the ways in which social change is affecting us today, including the emergence of modernity and how this brought about new forms of social inequality, new identities and new patterns of social conflict.
Sociology of Race and Racism* (15 credits)

This module will allow you to develop an understanding of sociological theories about race and racism and their application to the analysis of specific social phenomena.
Gender and Society* (15 credits)

This module provides an overview of some of the main social processes that shape gender relations in contemporary societies. We describe and assess major accounts of the processes of becoming 'men' and 'women.'
Quantitative Analysis of Social Research Data* (15 credits)

This module develops your understanding of the fundamentals of statistical data analysis. It enables you to apply appropriate statistical methods to data analysis on a criminology topic of your choice and present your results in a meaningful way.
Qualitative Analysis of Social Research Data (15 credits)

This module will equip you with the skills to employ qualitative methods in your third year dissertation and allows you to deepen your understanding of various methods, how to apply these and their limitations.
Digital Changes and Challenges (15 credits)

This module a) provides an introduction to the social consequences of the Internet and the convergence of the previously separate technologies of broadcasting, computing and communications b) introduces you to major sociological contributions to these issues.
Violence (15 credits)

This module provides you with an overview of the key issues and current debates in criminology and criminal justice, as well as providing a firm foundation for more specialist criminology modules in the 3rd year .
Quantitative Data Placement* (15 credits)

Data Analytics pathway module. If you are on the Data Analytics pathway you must undertake a graded quantitative data placement in a partner institution. The DA pathway will be organised by City Q-Step Centre.
Visualising Society* (15 credits)

Data Analytics pathway module. This module helps you develop a visual approach to using data in social science. It makes sense of research in cognitive science, computer science and the geo-sciences and developing practice in design. It will help you interpret graphical representations of data as you explore. It will help you develop meaningful and useful graphics as you communicate.
Key Issues in Criminology (15 credits)

Introduces key issues and debates in criminology and criminal justice; a range of criminological perspectives on crime, social order and the contemporary functions of the criminal justice system; current thinking on criminal behaviour and crime control; and, alternative forms of crime and social control.
News, Media and Society (15 credits)

This module provides a firm theoretical and empirical foundation for understanding the production of news as well as the social and political affects of news in contemporary society.
Sociological Approaches to Health, Illness and Care (15 credits)

In this module you will explore the sociology of experiences of health and illness, alongside social practices around the performance of care. You will consider the social meanings given to health, illness and care, as well as how these are shaped by contested and transnational institutional and social practices.
Introduction to Critical Legal Studies (15 credits)

This module will introduce you to the field of Critical Legal Studies by tracing its historical development as a movement began by legal scholars in the United States, its roots in other critical traditions, such as Marxism, Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement, and the contemporary development of the related fields of Critical Race Theory, and Feminist/Queer Legal Theory.
Policing ‘Race’ Through ‘Crime’ (15 credits)

In this module you will trace the long history of police racism from the era of colonial slavery to the present day, to show how hierarchies of ‘race’ are maintained through policing ‘crime’, in ways that treat ‘blackness’ as an active ingredient of ‘criminality’.
Branded Society (15 credits)

This theoretical/practical module is designed to you both a critical understanding of the relationship between branding and people’s individual and collective identities, as well as a first practical approach to the development of a brand, particularly in a hybrid and digital media environment.
British Music and Society since 1945 (15 credits)

This module will examine the development of British musical movements and traditions in the context of wider changes to British society, including urban development, demographic changes, especially following waves of immigration, economic growth and the development of the concept of the ‘teenager’.
Our London: Politics, Culture and Society (15 credits)

This module offers an interdisciplinary exploration of London’s development as a global city, examining its political, cultural, social, and economic dimensions. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, history, politics, and urban studies, you will critically engage with the forces that have shaped London over time.
Work Placement (15 credits)

This module provides you with the opportunity to exercise in the workplace the skills and knowledge you have gained in the taught modules by undertaking work experience.

Year 3

Draw on the research expertise in the department to study current issues at the cutting edge of current sociological thinking.
You will take two 15-credit core modules and choose 45 to 60 credits from Core Electives, and up to a further 45 credits from elective modules. Please note that elective modules are subject to change and some will have pre-requisites.

Sociology Project (30 credits)

This module is designed to expand and compound student knowledge of research methods and sociological theories and support students in the delivery of their third year project.
Global Migration Process (15 credits)

This module introduces you to a key sociological and global phenomenon. It allows you to develop a global and in depth understanding of this issue, and some of the economic, political and social factors that shape it.
Poverty: What counts?* (15 credits)

Introduces: the conceptualisation of UK poverty, how to understand and critically evaluate the different approaches to the quantitative measurement of UK poverty, the practical measurement of approaches using SPSS, and, social surveys.
Global Media and Sport (15 credits)

This module introduces students to the symbiotic relationship between sport and the media. It focuses on the business, economics and societal issues of sport as well as the governance of football at national, European and global level.
Broken Britain? Culture, Employment and Society (15 credits)

This course reviews some key features of ‘social breakdown’ discussed in political and policy campaigns. Using current evidence from sociological research in both the UK and abroad it allows us to determine whether Britain is indeed broken.
Work and Workers (15 credits)

This module considers the ways in which work and our understandings of it are changing. It will allow you to reflect on your own experiences of work, while introducing you to key sociological arguments and theoretical developments.
Education, Skills and the Job Market (15 credits)

Introduces the sociology of work and education and explores the relationship between higher education and work. It also explores the role of education in society and how educational experiences, skills, knowledge and educational credentials relate to the labour market and the work process.
AI, Technology and Society (15 credits)

This module will take you into a multidisciplinary examination of digital data. The module draws on several fields, including science and technology studies, critical data studies, software studies and feminist data studies to provide students with diverse critical approaches to the way digital data is produced, stored, distributed and applied in our lives.
Emotions, Identities and Relationships (15 credits)

In the context of what sociologists regard as a move towards an increasingly globalised, postmodern and individualised society, this module goes on to explore the extent to which these developments have resulted in changes in peoples’ social identities and personal relationships.
Criminal Behaviour (15 credits)

This module develops an understanding of a) why and how human behaviour is criminalised b) types of criminal behaviour and the processes through which people become defined as criminals c) different methods of controlling criminal behaviour and the future forms of such behaviour.
Celebrity and Society (15 credits)

The module will provide you with a discussion of the historical roots of celebrity. It will situate the position of celebrities in relation to the socio-economic conditions in society.
Crime, Culture and the City (15 credits)

This module introduces you to advances in research on urban crime and culture. Moving from a consideration of approximately 150 years of relevant scholarship in its early stages, the module considers cutting-edge developments in research and theory.
Changing Ideas About Society in the 21st Century (15 credits)

This module examines changing ideas about society and the role of sociology in the contemporary era. The module introduces you to central debates on sociological investigation and how it should (and should not) be undertaken in the 21st century.
Criminal Justice in Crisis (15 credits)

This module focuses on emerging developments and key areas of ‘crises’ in the criminal justice policy field.
Sport, the Body and Deviance (15 credits)

The aims of the module are to address knowledge and seek an understanding of the body in the contexts of leisure and deviance with particular reference to violence, drugs, risk, pain and injury.
Digital Cultures and Everyday Life (15 credits)

Explores the sorts of roles new communication technologies play in the transformation of cultural, economic, political, and social structures and practices. You will review the key theoretical debates around new media and critically evaluate the claims being made about.
Urban Violence and Public Health (15 credits)

This module will document and critically analyse the way that public health models, which see violent crime through the lens of disease and disease control, have been applied to urban violence in various international settings. During the course of this module, we will trace the origins and evolution of public health policies on urban violence, covering the key characteristics of the approach, plus attempts to gauge the impact of various public health policies.
Public Sociology and Racial Justice (15 credits)

This module takes a critical lens on what is meant by ‘public sociology’. You will pay close attention to the specific relationship between public sociology and race research, with a focus on the UK and North American context.
Border Criminology: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (15 credits)

This module offers an introduction to the key concepts within the field of Border Criminology, and a brief history of the evolution and intersection of criminal justice and border control.
Regression Analysis (15 credits)

Regression analysis is a powerful statistical method that allows you to examine the relationship between two or more variables of interest. This module develops your understanding of the fundamentals of regression analysis, how to apply it to real-world data and how to present your results in a meaningful way.
Globalization, Capitalism and Digital Society (15 credits)

Explore how global trade, big businesses, and digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon are changing the way we live and work. This module looks at how the internet and new technologies are reshaping jobs, industries, and economies across the world. You’ll dive into real-life case studies and learn how the global digital economy affects everything from streaming services to local communities.
Micro-Placement (15 credits)

The micro-placement module is an exciting way to gain professional experience via short summer placements with a wide range of London-based employers. The programme aims to give you real-life exposure to the business environment and enhance your employability skills.
Industry Projects (15 credits)

Using knowledge and skills gained through your degree, you will work in small multi-disciplinary groups on real-life professional level practical projects for employers, choosing between 5 sector streams, such as policy, finance, community, business and arts and culture.
Mentoring and coaching for leadership (15 credits)

This module sets out to provide BSc students with a structured opportunity to acquire mentoring and coaching skills. Students will be able to carry out mentoring either in an academic setting where stage 3 students mentor stage 1 students, or in a community setting where students mentor pupils in local schools.

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Study abroad

We have partnerships with many international institutions and you will have the opportunity to spend your third year studying abroad.

We have strong links with Universities such as:

Asia

RMIT (Vietnam)
Seoul National University

Australia

Curtin University
University of Queensland
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT Melbourne
University of Technology, Sydney

North America

University of British Columbia
Concordia University
Rutgers University
Northeastern University
Toronto Metropolitan University
Queen's University

Europe

Sciences Po (Riems)
University of Groningen
Koç University

Teaching and assessment

We teach Sociology through lectures, interactive sessions, practical workshops and small group seminars, supported by a personal tutorial system.

Lectures provide commentary and explanation of key content areas. Small-group seminars develop your understanding by inviting you to raise questions and participate in the debate and by providing guidance for further study. Computer labs develop your skills in the production and analysis of data.

You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes as well as to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject.

For the third-year dissertation, you will receive supervision and the Dissertation module provides you with the opportunity to develop research methods and writing skills.

Assessment methods

Assessment is primarily in the form of coursework (assessed essays, policy and research reports, group presentations and other assignments) and a final-year project.

Percentage of the course assessed by coursework

You will be assessed through a variety of methods, which may include coursework, set exercises, written reports, exams, oral presentations, group assignments, and a final project.

Assessment will emphasise both intellectual rigour and skills that will be crucial in your subsequent professional life.

Overall workload

Most contact hours will take the form of a combination of lectures, interactive sessions, practical workshops and small group classes, supported by a personal tutorial system. Approximate study time, based on 2019/20 entry is as follows:

Workload

Year 1

Scheduled learning: 14%

Independent learning: 86%

Year 2

Scheduled learning: 13%

Independent learning: 87%

Year 3

Scheduled learning: 10%

Independent learning: 90%

Fees and funding

Fees for year 2025/26

Home/UK

£9,535

International

£20,300

City St George's undergraduate fee for UK students joining us in 2026/27 is £9,535 for the first year of study, in line with the Government’s announcement on the fee cap increase (subject to the passing of secondary legislation). The fee for each subsequent year of study may also increase in line with government policy and we will confirm any such increase with you directly as and when the fee is confirmed.

Funding options

Explore up-to-date information about funding options, available financial support and typical living costs.

Fee waivers are available for this course.
Means tested support is available for 2025/26 entry.

20% off your study

We are offering a Graduate Loyalty Discount of 20% on tuition fees to all our alumni when applying to any of our degree courses.

To be eligible for the discount you must have successfully completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at legacy City, University of London or legacy St George's, University of London.

To apply you will need to be accepted onto your intended course of study and to meet all the normal academic admissions criteria for the relevant course at City St George's, University of London.

Additional expenses

Some of our degrees may involve additional expenses which are not covered by your tuition fees. Find out more about additional expenses.

Career

Sociology is a popular subject for students with an interest in community work, welfare, education, international development, the not-for-profit sector, social policy and government.

Sociology students develop desirable skills in data analysis, research methodology and critical thinking. These are transferable to a wide range of careers.

Combined with the diverse interests of our students, it is no wonder that our graduates progress to such varied career pathways.

Recent graduates have gone on to work in HR, PR, project work and teaching, as well as progressing to further study. Others went on to internships.

Internships

Students are encouraged to take advantage of the excellent internship opportunities that City's central London location provides. Sociology students have secured placements with a diverse range of organisations, large and small, international and local and often situated within minutes of City, working in the following areas:

Media and communications
Crime and justice
Human rights
Migration and refugee support
Mental health.

Employability

Federica Mure, Employability Education and Skills Development Lecturer in the School of Policy and Global Affairs, talks about the employability and professional experience modules embedded in our courses. 1:48

How to apply

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When to apply

Your application for entry in September 2025 should arrive at UCAS between September 2024 and 31 January 2025. Applications that arrive after 31 January 2025 will be considered only at City's discretion.

Contacting UCAS

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Address: Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 3LZ

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