First Year Pathway in Humanities and Education - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Sociology

The education courses take a progressive approach and will teach students transferable skills, relevant across early years, primary teaching and beyond. Education goes beyond the classroom, and students will discover the social issues that impact on children’s and young people’s learning. Choose a humanities course to learn more about how history has shaped modern times; explore politics, social issues and public services; or tackle the philosophical questions that have captivated humanity for millenia. On this degree students will explore what shapes societies individual lives, the relations that connect individuals, groups and institutions within societies and those that the divide them. As a BA (Hons) Sociology student at ARU, students will look at the work of classical sociologists, such as Weber and Marx, and contemporary issues such as individualism and global communication and how they are changing human behaviour. Students will be able to specialise in areas that interest them too – such as the impact of intoxicants on societies, cybercrime, social control, sport or nature and society – through a range of optional modules.

ARU has a supportive community of staff and students at ARU and our Sociology course ranked second in the UK for student satisfaction (The Complete University Guide 2020). It also scored 94% for ‘academic support’ in the National Student Survey 2019.