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Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO1F15 - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 15 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: CONTEMPORARY IRISH SOCIETY	SO155	7.5	2
		SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION	SO152	7.5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO2DM - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 30 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH	SO202	5	1
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		RESEARCH DESIGN AND SURVEY, FIELDWORK & DOCUMENTARY METHODS	SO225	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIETY AND STATE	PO304	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

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This subject is for students taking Sociology and Criminology.

 

SO2CDM - SOCIOLOGY (WITH CRIMINOLOGY)

Credits: 30 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		RESEARCH DESIGN AND SURVEY, FIELDWORK & DOCUMENTARY METHODS	SO225	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIETY AND STATE	PO304	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

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This subject is for students taking Sociology and Politics.

 

SO2PDM - SOCIOLOGY (WITH POLITICS)

Credits: 30 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		RESEARCH DESIGN AND SURVEY, FIELDWORK & DOCUMENTARY METHODS	SO225	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO2MJ - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 40 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH	SO202	5	1
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		RESEARCH DESIGN AND SURVEY, FIELDWORK & DOCUMENTARY METHODS	SO225	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIETY AND STATE	PO304	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

SO2CMJ - SOCIOLOGY (WITH CRIMINOLOGY)

Credits: 40 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		EUROPE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE	PO305A	5	2
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		RESEARCH DESIGN AND SURVEY, FIELDWORK & DOCUMENTARY METHODS	SO225	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIETY AND STATE	PO304	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO2MI - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 20 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY	SO201	5	1
		CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC IRELAND	SO241	5	1
		ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE	SO223A	5	2
		MARX ON IRELAND	SO221	5	1
		MEDIA AND SOCIETY	SO208	5	1
		NATURE TOURISM: ROMANCING NATURE AS A LEISURE ACTIVITY	SO344	5	2
		NORTHERN IRISH SOCIETY	SO214	5	2
		SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS	SO215	5	1
		SOCIAL WORLDS OF CHILDREN	SO210	5	1
		SOCIETY AND STATE	PO304	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER	SO352	5	2
		STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY: CLASS, RACE & GENDER	SO203	5	2
		URBAN SOCIOLOGY	SO211	5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO3DM - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 30 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY	SO301	5	1
		CRIME AND SOCIETY	SO345	5	2
		GENDER AND POLITICS	PO312	5	1
		INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA	PO313A	5	1
		IRISH POLITICS AND SOCIETY	PO315	5	2
		RACE & ETHNICITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	SO320A	5	2
		REVOLUTIONS	SO319	5	2
		SCREENING SOCIAL CHANGE: CAPITALISM, CINEMA AND TELEVISION	SO343	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION	SO330	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH	SO209	5	1
		SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY	SO312	5	2
		SPECIAL TOPIC RESEARCH PROJECT	SO303A	10	Year-Long
		TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE	SO321A	5	1

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This subject is for students taking Sociology and Politics.

 

SO3PDM - SOCIOLOGY (WITH POLITICS)

Credits: 30 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY	SO301	5	1
		CRIME AND SOCIETY	SO345	5	2
		GENDER AND POLITICS	PO312	5	1
		INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA	PO313A	5	1
		RACE & ETHNICITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	SO320A	5	2
		REVOLUTIONS	SO319	5	2
		SCREENING SOCIAL CHANGE: CAPITALISM, CINEMA AND TELEVISION	SO343	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION	SO330	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH	SO209	5	1
		SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY	SO312	5	2
		SPECIAL TOPIC RESEARCH PROJECT	SO303A	10	Year-Long
		TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE	SO321A	5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO3MJ - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 40 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY	SO301	5	1
		CRIME AND SOCIETY	SO345	5	2
		GENDER AND POLITICS	PO312	5	1
		INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA	PO313A	5	1
		IRISH POLITICS AND SOCIETY	PO315	5	2
		RACE & ETHNICITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	SO320A	5	2
		REVOLUTIONS	SO319	5	2
		SCREENING SOCIAL CHANGE: CAPITALISM, CINEMA AND TELEVISION	SO343	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION	SO330	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH	SO209	5	1
		SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY	SO312	5	2
		SPECIAL TOPIC RESEARCH PROJECT	SO303A	10	Year-Long
		TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE	SO321A	5	1

Sociology is a subject that opens your mind, that helps you to connect your own lived experience to the wider social and economic context, and that offers the opportunity to engage in an empowering form of student-led learning. Our graduates often speak of studying Sociology as a “life changing” experience.

The Sociology Department is widely acknowledged as a leading national and international centre of teaching and research excellence, as well as an
exemplar of public sociology and engagement. We seek to equip you with the necessary resources and skills – intellectual, methodological, communicative and active citizenship – to meet the challenges of our fast-changing contemporary society and to contribute productively to social transformation.

Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a discipline that teaches you to:

• develop critical skills and powers of argumentation based on empirical evidence.
• become a creative thinker and to think outside of the box.
• engage in a constructive enterprise, oriented toward the promotion of equality and social justice.

Taking Politics and/or Sociology to degree level is an ideal preparation to teach Politics and Society at second level following a Professional Master of Education (PME).

SO3MI - SOCIOLOGY

Credits: 20 Not compulsory:

		Module	Code	Credits	Semester	Compulsory
		CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY	SO301	5	1
		CRIME AND SOCIETY	SO345	5	2
		GENDER AND POLITICS	PO312	5	1
		INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA	PO313A	5	1
		IRISH POLITICS AND SOCIETY	PO315	5	2
		RACE & ETHNICITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	SO320A	5	2
		REVOLUTIONS	SO319	5	2
		SCREENING SOCIAL CHANGE: CAPITALISM, CINEMA AND TELEVISION	SO343	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION	SO330	5	2
		SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH	SO209	5	1
		SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY	SO312	5	2
		TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE	SO321A	5	1