Университет Роэхэмптон, BA (Hons), Childhood and Society and Sociology

Childhood and society Year 1: The 1st year provides the student with a basic introduction to some of the main contributions to childhood and society; courses may include: children in contemporary British society; childhood and literature; introduction to child development; history of childhood; social science research methods Year 2: the 2nd year builds on the multidisciplinary approach established in the foundation year; by taking advantage of the flexibility of the modular system, the student is able to focus their studies according to their own interests; some students may want to use the programme as a preparation for further professional training, whereas others may wish to pursue a more academic line of inquiry. Yea 3: in the 3rd year there are a wide variety of optional modules available allowing the student to pursue particular perspectives including: psychoanalysis, social policy and sociology. Sociology Year 1: The student is introduced to the subject through modules which may include: sociology: from the personal to the global; theory I: the sociological tradition; sociology and everyday life; and politics and policy. Year 2: the student examines local, national and global issues in modules which may include: living the city; travel and tourism; ethnicity and migration; health and illness; power and politics; the student also receives training in social research methods and may be able to take cross-listed modules on sociological aspects of human rights, criminology, childhood and social anthropology. Year 3: there are opportunities for independent study and placements in voluntary organisations; the student can also choose from optional modules which may include: globalit and globalisation; intimacy and the self; food and society; sociology of death.

This is a combined Honours course which allows the student to study 2 subjects; the childhood and society course asks questions about what is happening to children: how society treats children, how they are governed and the moral and political values attached to childhood; the student also considers what children themselves feel and think, and how they imagine themselves as well as the world around them; the course involves not only an analysis of specific institutions, including schools, hospitals, clinics etc, but also an appreciation of the fact that children are not a submissive population and have a right to fashion their own lives; sthe sociology course explores the relationships between people and the institutions they create to help them organise their lives; sociologists are increasingly sought out in both the public and private sectors for their skills in information gathering and analysis.