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Non-BPS Psychology (external)
Modules that could be considered for options outside of psychology
Level 1
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Module Code
ANT1007 / SOC1028
Module Title
Media and Society
Credits
15
GEO1105
Geographies of Place, Identity and Culture
15
POL1006
State and Society
15
POL1008
Introduction to Social Data
15
SOC1039
Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance
15
SOC1040
Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology
15
Notes
This module is intended to introduce students to the social scientific study of the media, considered
in light of forms of media production, distribution and consumption. In particular, two themes are
highlighted: how media have both shaped and been shaped by modern societies, and how the
“power” of the media can be understood from a range of perspectives.
The focus throughout the module is to reflect on key debates about how place and culture
interconnect in various ways, and the ways in which these interconnections impact on everyday
aspects of social identity, belonging and exclusion, taken-for-granted representations of cultural
meaning, and the performances of everyday life.
This module studies how politics is shaped by the broader social setting in which they unfold. In order
to analyse the relationship between the state and society, we will also study the various ways in
which people identify, organize and understand themselves within society more generally.
Cannot be taken with PSY1205. This introductory first-year module covers key concepts in
quantitative design and data collection as a basis for understanding social phenomena. It introduces
you to the core statistical ideas that underlie quantitative research and the software packages which
are used to produce analyses.
This module offers a foundational basis to the study of social life by introducing you to the social
study of crime, deviance, and the criminal justice system. This will include examining the historical
patterning of crime, the 'causes' of illegal activities and social responses to such acts.
This module offers an intermediate level analysis of crime and deviance by considering several core
themes in criminology. It extends the analysis from SOC1039 “Social Issues: Part I”, which is a
prerequisite.
Level 2
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Module Code
Module Title
Credits
Notes
ANT2032 / SOC2032
Culture and Perception
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience
it through cultural mediators. We investigate realities as situated practices, drawing on and drawing
together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media.
ANT2085 / SOC2085
ANT2086 / SOC2086
Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part
1: Medicine and Social Control
15
Addiction
30
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module ‘Medicine and Social Control’ aims to unpack and critically
analyse current academic theories on health, illness and medicine, taking an inter-disciplinary
approach including medical sociology, medical anthropology and health psychology.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. In this module, you will critically analyse the concepts, practices and
policy surrounding addiction, dependence, drug use and treatment in contemporary society.
ANT2087 / SOC2087
Disability and Society
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. The aim of the module is to introduce you to the social study of
disability from sociological and anthropological perspectives. Disability & Society will introduce you to
social situations of people with disabilities and their relationship to wider society.
ANT2088 / SOC2088
Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part
2: Bodies in Society
15
ANT2090
Sound and Society
15
ARA2132
Islamic Law and Society
15
ARA2118
Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East
15
BEM2016
Consumer Behaviour
15
BEM2022
Marketing and Society
15
BEM2020
Organisational Behaviour
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module will introduce you to contemporary sociological and
anthropological ways of understanding how bodies are made, manipulated, shaped and reproduced.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module explores the relationships between culture and the acoustic
worlds in which people live. You will consider how the production and reception or interpretation of
sound is shaped by human belief and practice.
This module will provide students with an opportunity to examine the history and modern
development of Islamic law. We will discuss the nature and development of Islamic Law and deal with
traditional law as applied by the four schools of Sunni Islam, and by Shi'i Islam.
The module explores interrelationships between gender, identity and modernity in the contemporary
Middle East. It provides a critical analysis of the various debates, tensions and transformations that
are linked to changing gender relations in the region.
This module will examine the development of consumer behaviour in the marketplace from different
disciplinary perspectives spanning the social sciences. Theoretical insights from these perspectives
will be used to critically evaluate current aspects of consumer culture such as the role of brands in
consumers’ lives and the uses and consequences of advertising campaigns.
Pre-reqs BEM1019 or BEM1018. The module aims to build on your current knowledge of marketing
and provide you with a broad perspective on the role of marketing in society. You will be encouraged
to analyse and reflect on your own behaviour, decision-making and consumption. Through examining
current trends including globalisation, consumption patterns, sustainability, social responsibility,
ethics and social choices, you will develop your appreciation of marketing and business practice in the
world
today.
Pre-reqs
BEM1016. Organisational Behaviour (OB) is an interdisciplinary field of study, which explores
individual, group and organisational behaviour and the impact of individuals, groups, organisations
and society in creating, shaping and controlling behaviours.
GEO2122
Social Geography
15
Social Geography is a broad sub-discipline within Human Geography that is concerned with the social
contexts and social processes that shape space and place. We will investigate key themes of
‘community’, ‘inequality’ and ‘activism’ within the context of topics such as crime, health, age and
race.
POL2081
Thinking about Race: Perspectives from the Biological
and Social Sciences
15
POL2083
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
15
POL2086
Strategy and Psychology in Foreign Policy
15
This course explores the origins and power of ethnic conflicts from a variety of perspectives:
psychology, politics, economics, neuroscience, sociology, law and genetics. With this diversity of
evidence in mind, we will consider the degree to which our racial and ethnic divisions are a
consequence of a more fundamental tendency to form coalitions, a tendency at the heart of politics
in humans and other species.
This course presents an introduction to various concepts, methods, and applications of social network
analysis drawn from the social and behavioral sciences. You will learn about the motivations for using
social network analysis and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach in a variety of social
science contexts.
This module will introduce you to two different approaches to understanding foreign policy. First you
will learn the role psychological factors such as emotions, morality, and deciding under pressure play
in foreign policy and international relations. You will also be exposed to key decision-making models.
This module will then introduce you to rational choice theory and how it can be applied to
understand international problems and conflicts.
SOC2014
Media in Society
15
SOC2030
Sociology of Art and Culture
15
SOC2034
Gender and Society 1
15
SOC2037
Pharmaceutical Cultures
15
SOC2050
Knowing the Social World
15
SOC2078B
Eat: the Social Self as Consumer
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module explores how sociologists, anthropologists and cultural
theorists understand the place, role and significance of traditional and new media in Western society.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This course examines how cultural issues can be investigated
sociologically. It involves analysis of what the terms ‘art’ and ‘popular culture’ may mean, and the
stakes that are involved in their use in different social contexts. The relations between social groups,
forms of power and modes of cultural creation, dissemination and consumption are explored and
reflected upon.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module considers different theories and approaches to gender and
sexuality, and explores the ways in which these intersect with concepts of masculinity, femininity, the
body, work, class and ethnicity.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module will provide an opportunity for you to think about how the
individual act of taking a tablet is embedded within a series of global formations and processes. You
will be introduced to literature which shows how pharmaceuticals affect society and how
pharmaceutical products are affected by social factors.
This module draws together issues common to sociology and empirical philosophy to explore what
there is to know about social life and how to know and represent it. We will explore a variety of
approaches to social research and gain hands-on experience with some of the techniques these
sources have employed.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. In this module you will look at how the contemporary social self is
shaped by its involvement in economic interaction as consumer and how the changes in the world of
shopping represent social change in general.
SOC2038
SOC2098
On Violence
Sociology of Imprisonment
SOC2104
Victimology
Options
Module Code
ANT3032/ SOC3032
Module Title
Culture and Perception
15
15
15
Credits
15
Can be taken at level 2 or 3. This module addresses three key questions: What is violence? How can
we understand why it takes place? What can be done to reduce social harms?
This module is an introduction to sociology of imprisonment. You will introduced to the classic texts
on the lived experiences of prisoners and prison staf, as well as the more recent sociological
perspectves on the prison experience. You will also consider the extent to which imprisonment
reaches beyond prison walls, shaping ex-prisoners' lives afer they are released and afectng families of
prisoners and the communites they come from.
This module will introduce you to the concept of “victim”. We will discuss the meaning of this term,
and whether it should be extended to include “secondary victims” of crime such as relatives of
primary victims and relatives of offenders. In the second part of the module, we will move on to
consider the extent to which victims should be allowed to participate in the criminal justice process
and engage with the various ways they do so in the UK, US and other countries.
Notes
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience
it through cultural mediators. We investigate realities as situated practices, drawing on and drawing
together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media.
ANT3085 / SOC3085
ANT3086 / SOC3086
Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part
1: Medicine and Social Control
15
Addiction
30
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module ‘Medicine and Social Control’ aims to unpack and critically
analyse current academic theories on health, illness and medicine, taking an inter-disciplinary
approach including medical sociology, medical anthropology and health psychology.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. In this module, you will critically analyse the concepts, practices and
policy surrounding addiction, dependence, drug use and treatment in contemporary society.
ANT3087 / SOC3087
Disability and Society
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. The aim of the module is to introduce you to the social study of
disability from sociological and anthropological perspectives. Disability & Society will introduce you to
social situations of people with disabilities and their relationship to wider society.
ANT3088 / SOC3088
ANT3090
Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part
2: Bodies in Society
15
Sound and Society
15
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module will introduce you to contemporary sociological and
anthropological ways of understanding how bodies are made, manipulated, shaped and reproduced.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module explores the relationships between culture and the acoustic
worlds in which people live. You will consider how the production and reception or interpretation of
sound is shaped by human belief and practice.
BEM3010
Consumer Research
15
BEM3040
Psychological Aspects of Consumption
15
POL3191
Security and the Politics of Categorisation
30
SOC3013
Gender and Society 1
15
SOC3028
Media in Society
15
SOC3030
Sociology of Art and Culture
15
SOC3078B
Eat: the Social Self as Consumer
15
SOC3080
Pharmaceutical Cultures
15
SOC3098
Sociology of Imprisonment
15
Pre-requisite: BEM2016. This module seeks to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed
understanding of consumer behaviour, that is the processes through which groups and/or individuals
acquire, consume and dispose of goods, services, ideas and/or experiences, and engages you in an
active piece of primary consumer research.
Consumer research relies on theories of psychological mediation and evidence drawn from
psychological research in order to provide an adequate account of consumption in its broadest
sense.This module will introduce students to selected areas of consumer research where an
understanding of the underlying psychological processes is essential.
In this module you are introduced to one of the most fundamental processes underpinning security
policies: categorization. You will gain a multidisciplinary understanding of the cognitive and social
process of categorization and learn how to use this knowledge in order to analyse public policies
aimed at providing security.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module considers different theories and approaches to gender and
sexuality, and explores the ways in which these intersect with concepts of masculinity, femininity, the
body, work, class and ethnicity.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module explores how sociologists, anthropologists and cultural
theorists understand the place, role and significance of traditional and new media in Western society.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This course examines how cultural issues can be investigated
sociologically. It involves analysis of what the terms ‘art’ and ‘popular culture’ may mean, and the
stakes that are involved in their use in different social contexts. The relations between social groups,
forms of power and modes of cultural creation, dissemination and consumption are explored and
reflected upon.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. In this module you will look at how the contemporary social self is
shaped by its involvement in economic interaction as consumer and how the changes in the world of
shopping represent social change in general.
Can be taken at levels 2 or 3. This module will provide an opportunity for you to think about how the
individual act of taking a tablet is embedded within a series of global formations and processes. You
will be introduced to literature which shows how pharmaceuticals affect society and how
pharmaceutical products are affected by social factors.
This module is an introduction to sociology of imprisonment. You will introduced to the classic texts
on the lived experiences of prisoners and prison staf, as well as the more recent sociological
perspectves on the prison experience. You will also consider the extent to which imprisonment
reaches beyond prison walls, shaping ex-prisoners' lives afer they are released and afectng families of
prisoners and the communites they come from.
SOC3104
SOC3105
Victimology
Crime and the Family
15
15
This module will introduce you to the concept of “victim”. We will discuss the meaning of this term,
and whether it should be extended to include “secondary victims” of crime such as relatives of
primary victims and relatives of offenders. In the second part of the module, we will move on to
consider the extent to which victims should be allowed to participate in the criminal justice process
and engage with the various ways they do so in the UK, US and other countries.
In this module, you will be introduced to the different ways in which the family intersects with the
criminal justice system. We will explore the role the family plays within society and in offending and
reoffending behaviours. We will then turn to crimes that occur within the family: different types of
domestic violence. The second part of the module will introduce you to the experiences of offenders’
families and the different ways in which these families are affected by offending and the criminal
justice system’s responses to crime. Stigma will be discussed in great depth, as well as the
sociocultural forces underlying stigmatisation.