BA (Hons) Sociology & Social Anthropology

This course enables you to explore the social and cultural dimensions of human experience, and to discover universalities and diversities in how humans live. Explore identity, class, cultural practices and social change, and their impact on everyday life for different people around the world.

Exciting and unique subject area combinations

Core areas of the degree are taught by expert sociologists and social anthropologists, with study options delivered by criminologists, as well as archaeologists and biological anthropologists. You will gain insights about societies and cultures all over the world, in the present and sometimes also in the past.

Study key contemporary issues

This course will provide you with a well-rounded understanding of key sociological and social anthropological areas of debate and expertise, such as kinship and family, gender and ethnicity, class and politics, power and inequality. In interactive learning sessions, you will explore sociological and social anthropological perspectives on important contemporary issues, such as globalisation, humanitarian interventions, migration, terrorism and protection.

You’ll develop your skills, knowledge and employability through applying your learning to contemporary, real-world challenges, as well as designing and carrying out your own research project on a topic of your choice.

UCAS code LL36

Key Information

Duration and delivery:

3 years full-time, or 4 years full-time with a minimum 30-week placement

Entry requirements: 104 - 120 tariff points

Required subjects: None

If English is not your first language: IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading or writing and 5.5 in all other components or equivalent

See website for latest details of: Entry requirements, contact hours and course costs

The way the course is taught at BU gives a fresh perspective and intertwines both disciplines. Because the course covers such a wide range of topics, the career opportunities are just as wide.

Gemma Knights, student

Key areas of study

Introduction to Social Theory & Research | Families & Kinship in Contemporary Society | Understanding Communities | Introduction to Social Anthropology | Social Inequality & Exclusion | Qualitative Research | Doing Ethnographic Research | Contemporary Social Theory | Understanding Globalisation | Ethnographic Methods | Controversial Culture | Anthropology of International Intervention | Politics & Ideology

There are also optional, shorter or longer placement opportunities, through which you will further boost your employability and networks. www.bournemouth.ac.uk/sociology-anthropology