UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN SOCIOLOGY

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BSc Sociology BSc Criminology and Sociology BSc Media Studies and Sociology BSc Sociology with Psychology

Undergraduate courses in Sociology

Detailed course and module descriptions UCAS CODE: L300 ENTRY REQUIREMENT: AAB 2012-13 FEES UK/EU FEES: £9,000 INTERNATIONAL FEES: £9,900*

BSc Sociology This degree is concerned with important contemporary topics and debates such as cultural and socio-economic transformations, family life, social stratification, gender and sexuality, race relations and new ethnicities, migration, human rights, citizenship and cosmopolitan identity, governance, media and communications and crime and security.

BSc Sociology UCAS Code: L300 Entry Requirement: AAB Page: 1

BSc Criminology and Sociology UCAS Code: L390 Entry Requirement: AAB Page: 2

Course descriptions

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Module descriptions

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Study format

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Reading list

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Career paths

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Academic profiles

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Application procedures

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Why choose City University London

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BSc Media Studies and Sociology UCAS Code: PL33 Entry Requirement: AAB Page: 3

BSc Sociology with Psychology UCAS Code: LCH8 Entry Requirement: AAB Page: 4

As well as providing you with a critical understanding of the fundamentals of sociological thought, we encourage the evaluation and planning of research. Our modules reflect the particular expertise of academic staff who are internationally recognised for their research. Sociological theories are taught both in specialised courses and in the context of options addressing specific social, cultural and political issues. During the first year, for example, you apply your ‘sociological perspective’ to the vital issues that are redefining our understanding and experience of rapidly changing urban environments.

YEAR 1 Core modules: • Introduction to sociology • Understanding the modern world.

YEAR 2 Core modules: • Sociological research methods • Sociological theory and analysis.

Elective modules include: • A language module • Contemporary issues in global politics (20th and 21st century) • Contemporary issues in media studies • History and theory of psychology • Introduction to criminology • Introduction to microeconomics • Lifespan psychology • Media, history and politics.

Elective modules include: • Crime, news and criminal justice • Gender, crime and justice • Interpreting news and documentary • Key issues in criminology • New media challenges • Political sociology • Race and ethnicity in Britain • Sociology of punishment • The circuit of culture • Understanding social change • Violence and criminal justice policy.

YEAR 3 Core modules: • Dissertation. Elective modules include: • Approaches to film • Criminal behaviour • Environmental criminology • Forced migration • Gender and globalisation • Globalisation and human rights • Media and politics: strategies, scandal and spin • Media, war and terrorism • Policing and crime control • Sociology of human rights • The global media system • The information society • Victimology • Welfare and society • Youth, crime and society.

*International fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course.

City University London Undergraduate Courses in Sociology

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Detailed course and module descriptions (cont.) BSc Criminology and Sociology Crime and criminal justice are central concerns in contemporary societies, attracting political and media attention. This popular, innovative degree is designed and delivered by staff who are internationally acknowledged as leading researchers in their field. Criminology at City is a stimulating, vibrant and flexible study programme with specialist teaching informed directly by current staff research activities. Key areas of criminological interest include: media, crime and popular culture; policing; criminal justice and criminal law; youth cultures and youth justice; victimology; terrorism and gender and crime control. The degree stresses the importance of interpreting and using YEAR 1 Core modules: • Introduction to criminology • Introduction to sociology • Understanding the modern world. Elective modules include: • A language option • Actors in global politics • Contemporary issues in global politics (20th and 21st century). • Contemporary issues in media studies • History and theory of psychology • Lifespan psychology • Media, history and politics • Theories of global politics. YEAR 2 Core modules: • Key Issues in criminology • Sociological research methods • Violence and criminal justice policy.

UCAS CODE: L390 ENTRY REQUIREMENT: AAB 2012-13 COURSE FEES UK/EU FEES: £9,000 INTERNATIONAL FEES: £9,500*

applied evidence as well as active engagement with crucial criminal justice policy issues and global trends. A particular strength of criminology at City is its flexibility. You will develop your ‘criminological imagination’ through combining your studies with a range of sociology options that focus on contemporary urban cultures, risk society, gender and sexuality, race and new ethnicities, human rights, the media and globalisation processes. Our central London location and proximity to key criminal justice agencies facilitates our distinctive criminology study programme. High quality teaching in seminars and policy workshops ensures that you graduate with the key skills necessary to gain employment in many different careers in government departments and the core professions allied to the criminal justice system and related fields or for postgraduate studies.

Elective modules include: • Crime, news and criminal justice • Gender, crime and justice • Identities and personal relationships • Interpreting news and documentary • New media challenges • New media: pleasures, promises and anxieties • Political sociology • Interpreting news • Race and ethnicity in Britain • Sociological theory and analysis • Sociology of punishment • The circuit of culture • Understanding social change. YEAR 3 Core modules: • Dissertation.

In this course we will familiarise you with the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and specific current issues and debates. The media studies part of the degree provides an invaluable understanding of the expanding role of the media in contemporary society.

YEAR 1 Core modules: • Contemporary issues in media studies • Introduction to sociology • Media, history and politics • Understanding the modern world.

Core elective modules include (you take at least three of these 15 credit modules): • Criminal behaviour • Environmental criminology • Policing and crime control • Victimology • Youth, crime and society.

Elective modules include: • Actors in global politics • Contemporary issues in global politics (20th and 21st century) • History and theory of psychology • Introduction to criminology • Introduction to macroeconomics • Introduction to microeconomics • Lifespan psychology • Theories of global politics • Topics in applied macroeconomics • Topics in applied microeconomics.

Elective modules include: • Approaches to film • Forced migration • Gender and globalisation • Globalisation and human rights • Media and politics: strategies, scandal and spin • Media, conflict and terrorism • Sociology of human rights • The global media system • The information society • Welfare and society.

YEAR 2 Core elective modules (you take at least two of these 15 credit modules): • Interpreting news and documentary

*International fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course.


BSc Media Studies and Sociology

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UCAS CODE: PL33 ENTRY REQUIREMENT: AAB 2012-13 COURSE FEES UK/EU FEES: £9,000 INTERNATIONAL FEES: £9,500*

Specialist courses taught by leading researchers encourage the critical study of various media – including the broadcasting media, print media, film and new media technologies in both a national and global context. Conceptually the degree leans towards the proven strengths of sociological analysis of the media, but also includes viewpoints from cultural studies and related research fields. It provides you with an in-depth sociological analysis of the changing roles of media and communications in today’s information societies. The final year dissertation allows you to focus on both of your specialist study areas or build mainly on only one.

• New media challenges • New media: pleasures, promises and anxieties • Television and sport • The circuit of culture. Core sociology modules: • Sociological research methods. Elective modules include: • Crime, news and criminal justice • Identity and personal relationships • Key issues in criminology • Political sociology • Race and ethnicity in Britain • Sociological theory and analysis • Understanding social change. YEAR 3 Core modules: • Dissertation.


Core elective modules (you take at least three of these 15 credit modules): • Approaches to film • Film, ideology and identity • Media and politics: strategies, scandal and spin • The global media system • The information society • Transnational communication in Europe. Elective modules include: • Criminal behaviour • Environmental criminology • Forced migration • Gender and globalisation • Globalisation and human rights • Media, conflict and terrorism • Policing and crime control • Sociology of human rights • Victimology • Welfare and society • Youth, crime and society. *International fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course.

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Detailed course and module descriptions (cont.) BSc Sociology with Psychology This popular degree course is designed to give you in-depth knowledge and understanding of the main theoretical perspectives and practical applications of sociology and psychology. Combined studies provide you with distinctive pathways to many of the most important areas of the social sciences.

YEAR 1 Core modules: • Introduction to sociology • Understanding the modern world. Elective modules: • Actors in global politics • Biological approaches to mind and behaviour • Cognitive approaches to mind and behaviour • Contemporary issues in media studies • History and theory of psychology • Introduction to criminology • Lifespan psychology. YEAR 2 Core modules: • Sociological research methods • Sociological theory and analysis. Elective modules: • Biological psychology • Crime, news and criminal justice

UCAS CODE: LCH8 ENTRY REQUIREMENT: AAB 2012-13 COURSE FEES UK/EU FEES: £9,000 INTERNATIONAL FEES: £9,500*

You are encouraged to develop a mixture of transferable skills and competencies such as the development of critical thinking, communication, research design and data analysis, problem solving and interpersonal skills. You will graduate from this degree programme with a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which the various disciplines relate to and inform each other.

• Developmental psychology • Interpreting news and documentary • Key issues in criminology • New media challenges • New media: pleasures, promises and anxieties • Personality and differential psychology • Race and ethnicity in Britain • Social psychology • The circuit of culture • Understanding social change. YEAR 3 Core modules: • Dissertation.

• Policing and crime control • Sociology of human rights • Sociology of the margins • The global media system • Victimology. Psychology modules: • Abnormal and clinical psychology • Approaches to autism • Coaching psychology • Health psychology • Judgement and decision making • Neuroscience: brain, mind and body • Organisational psychology • Positive psychology • Psychology as philosophy.

Sociology modules include: • Criminal behaviour • Environmental criminology • Gender and society • Global migration process • Media, cities and culture • Media, conflict and terrorism *International fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course.


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Module descriptions

Please find below a small sample of module descriptions. For the complete list please visit city.ac.uk/sociology/ug

TOP TIP Make sure you are on top of your reading. Initially, I never realised how missing some of my readings would affect my assignments and exam.

Former Sociology undergraduate student

Core First Year Modules for all pathways INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY This module provides a broad introduction to some of the main areas of research and debate in contemporary sociology. It does not presuppose any previous knowledge of sociology. The course also provides a strong foundation for the more specialised courses that are studied in the second and third years of the Sociology and Media Studies and Sociology degree. UNDERSTANDING THE MODERN WORLD This module is empirical and historical, offering you knowledge and understanding of historical developments, social change, social institutions and social cleavages.

This module explores social changes that have occurred in the period known as ‘Modernity’ through the lenses of social institutions (family, religion, the market) and social cleavages (gender, class, ethnicity etc.).

Core Criminology Module INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY The aim of this module is: to introduce you to the origins and development of criminology; to familiarise you with a range of criminological perspectives and knowledge sources and to enable you to debate emerging issues in crime and crime control. You will gather, retrieve and synthesise information from a number of different sources in order to make sense of key issues in criminology.


Core Media Studies and Sociology Modules CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MEDIA STUDIES In this module we give you an overview of the relationship between media and politics including the government’s media policy. We discuss the main approaches and theories in the field of media and communications, such as ‘political economy’, ‘mass culture and ideology’ and ‘cultural studies’. The module also examines media reception, media effects, media influence and audiences. The final part of the module speculates on media and its futures and includes lectures on media and new technologies and on digital broadcasting.

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MEDIA, HISTORY AND POLITICS This module covers the history of journalism, the press and the broadcasting media in Britain. • History of the press and journalism in Britain since the 18th century. • History of television, including the BBC, the break up of the monopoly, ITV, the ‘cosy duopoly’, and Channel 4. • History of cable and satellite television in Britain, including BSkyB. • Introduction to the history of broadcasting policy. • Introduction to the globalisation of British media.

Elective Modules for Sociology with Psychology HISTORY AND THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGY The aim of this module is to introduce you to the major historical and theoretical issues in psychology, and to the concept of the self or mind. You will learn about the philosophical origins of psychology, introspection, behaviourism, psychodynamic theory, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and neuroscience. You will be introduced to major figures in the history of psychology, including Wundt, James, Pavlov, Skinner, Piaget and Freud.


LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY The aim of this module is to introduce you to life span developmental psychology. You will learn about biological, physical and psychological changes that occur as we age. Four broad issues will help form the basis of your understanding of the role of nature and nurture; critical and sensitive periods, continuity versus discontinuity and stability versus change.

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TOP TIP Take time out to enjoy London if you’re moving here for the first time, it really is a great city. Generally though, enjoy your 1st year of study, but be prepared to kick things up a notch for the 2nd year, this is where it gets tough.

Study format

Find out more now at city.ac.uk/ sociology/ug



Phone enquiries +44 (0) 20 7040 8502

HOW WILL I LEARN? 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. You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes and to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject. For the third year project, you will receive supervision and the Project Workshop module provides you with the opportunity to develop research methods and writing skills.

Sample reading list

Email enquiries socsciug@ city.ac.uk

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED? Assessment is primarily in the form of coursework (assessed essays and assignments) unseen examinations and a final year project.

DURATION: Full-time – three years.

SOCIOLOGY MODULES: GIDDENS, A (2009) SOCIOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, POLITY PRESS. MARSH, I ET AL (2000) MAKING SENSE OF SOCIETY, LONDON, PRENTICE HALL.

Provisional University term dates for 2012/13 – Please note dates may be subject to change and some courses have different term dates. INDUCTION FOR NEW STUDENTS AUTUMN TERM WINTER BREAK (ASSESSMENT PERIOD) SPRING TERM SPRING BREAK (ASSESSMENT PERIOD)

CRIMINOLOGY MODULES: MCLAUGHLIN, E., MUNCIE, J. AND HUGHES, G. (EDS) (2002) CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: ESSENTIAL READINGS (2ND EDITION). LONDON, SAGE.

17-21 SEPTEMBER 2012 24 SEPTEMBER-7 DECEMBER 2012 10-28 DECEMBER 2012 7-18 JANUARY 2013 31 DECEMBER 2012-22 MARCH 2013 25 MARCH-12 APRIL 2013 (15 APRIL-10 MAY 2013)

MEDIA MODULES: CURRAN, J. AND GUREVITH, M. (2010) MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY (5TH EDITION). HODDER AND ARNOLD.

You will be sent a full reading list before you join. City University London Undergraduate Courses in Sociology

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Employers include: Academic Ltd, Amnesty International, Arsenal, Children and Adolescence Mental Health Service, Crown Prosecution Service, Lloyds TSB, OCO Global, Office of Fair Trading, UK Border Agency and Urban Youth

Career paths Because we develop skills and abilities valued by employers, City is consistently ranked as one of the top UK universities for career opportunities and professional development. 90.3 per cent of our 2010 Sociology graduates went into employment or further study within six months (compared to the national average of 86.1 per cent)

TOP TIP Think before you act, and I can’t stress the thinking part enough.

Examples of job titles: Youth support worker, marketing assistant, anti-money laundering assistant, investment consultant, merchandiser, business development manager, database administrator, research consultant, young people mentor


Here’s a sample of what you could go on to do... BSc SOCIOLOGY A sociology degree develops a range of skills and intellectual abilities valued by employers including analytical skills, problem solving, communicating ideas, independent judgement and the ability to think constructively about key issues. Our graduates are found within a variety of different professions. Possible sectors for employment include civil service, broadcasting, advertising, press and public relations, audience and market research, the cultural industries, education, campaigning groups, non-governmental agencies, think tanks, the criminal justice system, protective agencies and health and social services.

BSc CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY This high profile, professionally oriented degree programme is an excellent basis for a wide variety of graduate-level careers in the civil service, the criminal justice system, policing, the protective agencies, youth justice system, social services, community safety, crime prevention, think tanks, and civil liberties pressure groups. It also prepares students for a broader set of career choices and further postgraduate study and research in criminology, criminal law, criminal justice studies, and related fields.


BSc MEDIA STUDIES AND SOCIOLOGY Our graduates are found within a variety of different professions. As well as successfully pursuing postgraduate careers in media and related research fields, they pursue professional journalism training and careers in publishing, advertising, public relations, marketing and arts administration and policy. There are also an increasing number of employment opportunities in the rapidly expanding new cultural and creative industries sector of the economy.

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TOP TIP It is important to start engaging now with the kinds of social and policy issues that the discipline of sociology covers, including questions such as class, social inequality, crime, gender, race and immigration, culture, media and related issues.

See the full list of Sociology academic staff at city.ac.uk/ sociology/ug

Academic profiles

Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology

PROFESSOR FRANK WEBSTER HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Professor Webster completed his studies at LSE and joined City University London in 2003. He has a long term interest in teaching and learning and contributes to modules in Contemporary Societies, Social Change, and Introduction to Sociology, as well as Information, Communication and Society.


His research lies broadly in the areas of information and communications trends, and he has carried out a number of projects within this field. He has recently worked on Information War and played an active role in researching Internet Activism by examining the anti-war movement and its adoption of information and communication technologies. This work is situated in a context of interest in democratisation and information trends, an interest manifested especially in his teaching at Masters level at City University London.

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DR CHRIS GREER UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR Dr Greer joined City University London in 2005, having worked at Northumbria University since 2002. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, in late 2001. His main research interests lie at the intersections between crime, media and culture, and currently focus on the news representation of crime and justice in the 24-7 global mediasphere. Dr Greer’s latest book, Crime News, will be published as part of the Key Ideas in Criminology series with Routledge. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical resources, the book

systematically analyses key interconnected issues including; newsworthiness, fear of crime, moral panic, penal populism and media justice. The analysis is situated within wider socio-cultural, political, economic and moral contexts, focusing in particular on their interaction in 21st century information-communications markets. Dr Greer has also conducted research and published in the areas of critical victimology, sex crime and the sociology of punishment.


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Academic profiles (cont.)

DR SARAH MALTBY UNDERGRADUATE YEAR ONE TUTOR

Dr Maltby joined City University London in 2008 as a lecturer in Sociology having completed her doctoral studies at the University of Surrey in 2007. Based on ethnographic work with the British Military and British television broadcasters, Dr Maltby’s doctoral thesis examined the organisational and structural practices of military and media agencies in conflict scenarios to explore the degree to which the military management of information for the media potentially re-configures the conduct of contemporary conflict. Her research agenda extends this focus to include wider issues related to the intersection of media, war and terrorism particularly with regard to contemporary military and media

practice. This includes the tactical and strategic role of mediated information in the implementation of security provision, institutional information management in conflict, and the impact of mediated information on social behaviour in conflict scenarios. She has extensive experience in the conduct of research through contracted work with a wide range of organisations including the Metropolitan Police, the British Military, the Department of Health, the probation service and a number of voluntary organisations. She is dedicated to constructive knowledge transfer and the continual development of research relations with user communities within and beyond the academic sphere. Dr Maltby is also on the editorial board for the journal Media, War and Conflict launched by Sage in April 2008.


DR MILENA CHIMIENTI LECTURER

DR CARRIE-ANNE MYERS POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr Chimienti joined City in 2008 as a Lecturer in Sociology. She was from 2005 to 2007 lecturing at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and from 1999 to 2007 she was a researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

Dr Myers joined City University in 2006 as a lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. She completed an Economic and Social Research (ESRC)funded PhD at the London School of Economics on school violence and bullying in 2004. She then spent two years at the University of Surrey as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence where she worked on projects that included: “Violence Reduction in Schools”, with the DfES, “The Mental Health of Young Offenders”, with the Prison Service, ‘An Evaluation of Anti-Bullying Websites’, ‘An Evaluation of Peer

Her research interests are in the areas of marginality linked to illness (HIV/AIDS, depression, addiction etc.), legal positions (asylum applicants, irregular immigrants) or social positions (migrants with health problems, female migrant sex workers, transgender). She has carried out around fifteen projects in these areas.

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Support to Reduce School Bullying’ and ‘An Assessment of the School Climate to Measure Fear of School and the efficacy of Peer Support’. She has taught at both Undergraduate and Masters level at Brunel, Goldsmiths, LSE and Surrey. Dr Myers is currently working on a programme tackling cyberbullying in partnership with Devon and Cornwall Police and ‘Chillaxing in the City’, a reflexive and visual ethnography, with her colleague Dr Helen Thornham in partnership with the City of London Academy, Islington.


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How to prepare for a Sociology degree at City University London...

Application procedures You can apply through your school or college using the UCAS online service ‘Apply’ which enables you to apply directly through the UCAS website (www.ucas.com). Independent applicants such as mature and international students can also use UCAS Apply.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS A-Level grades: AAB 340 UCAS tariff points IB: 35 GCSE: Grade C or equivalent in English language and maths or statistics. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: • Grade C in GCSE (or International GCSE) • Cambridge ESOL CPE grade C or above • IELTS 6.5 • TOEFL (internet based): 100 – 105 • TOEFL (computer based): 250 • TOEFL (paper based): 600

HOW TO APPLY Applications to our undergraduate courses open on mid-September and close on the 15th January (30th June for international students). Late applications after this date will still be considered at our discretion. All applications to our undergraduate degree courses, including those from mature students, must be made through UCAS.

The institution code for City University is C60, the UCAS course codes are provided in the individual course descriptions within this prospectus, as well as within the UCAS handbook and website. If you are still at school or college when you make an application, staff there should be able to assist with this process offering you help and advice. If you are outside the UK when you make an application your local British Council Office should be able to provide assistance.



FOUNDATION PROGRAMMES FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Foundation programmes offering guaranteed entry onto our Sociology degrees are offered by our partners at: • INTO • Kaplan International College For more information on these programmes, please see our website or contact our undergraduate admissions administrator:

“In preparing for your UG Sociology Programmes we suggest you can do two main things. First, have a look at a basic introductory book such as Giddens Sociology, which will give you an overview of the breadth and scope of sociology as a discipline. Second, we suggest you look for a book such as Ken Plummer’s Sociology: The Basics, which is a passionate account based on actual experience of teaching generations of undergraduate sociology students. These books will allow you to see something about what it is that we teach at university, and we shall engage with many of the theories and social issues they discuss during your programme of study. It is important to start engaging now with the kinds of social and policy issues that the discipline of sociology covers, including questions such as class, social inequality, crime, gender, race and immigration, culture, media and related issues. Read media coverage of these issues and begin thinking about them from a sociological perspective.”

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Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology, offers the following advice to prospective City Sociology students:


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The information in this leaflet is correct at the time of going to press. The University reserves the right, arising from unforeseen events or circumstances beyond our control, to add or remove courses and to make changes in regulations, syllabuses, course options and modules, fees etc without prior notice. Fees quoted are for one year only. Complaints concerning the accuracy of information provided by the University in this leaflet and in related course brochures should be made to the Academic Registrar. Any complainants who feel their complaints have not been dealt with satisfactorily may write to the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency.

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