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Top reasons to choose this course

• Develop new ways of thinking about the social world by exploring diverse perspectives on the relationship between the individual and society.
• You will be encouraged to ask questions about social situations, challenge assumptions and base decisions on evidence.
• Placement opportunities will give you hands-on work experience and help you stand out to potential employers.

• International exchange opportunities at the University of Lyon 2, France; the Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid, Spain; and Örebro Universitet in Sweden.

• You will learn through a variety of methods including lectures, seminars, workshops, student presentations, group work, independent activities, individual and group tutorials, and through research and personal development activities.

• Visiting guest speakers will add to your learning, giving insights into their work and providing networking opportunities. Speakers have come from organisations including:  Eastbourne Foodbank, St Mungo’s, the Troubled Families Programme, Boing Boing and the Trust for Developing Communities. 
• Our Sociology of 芭乐视频 lecture series brings speakers who deliver lectures in different locations around 芭乐视频, including the Palace Pier. Content has included sociology of the seaside, LGBTQ spaces, crime and gentrification.
• We work with MindOut, a local LGBT mental health project, to bring a Living Library to the campus. The library is designed to challenge prejudice and stigma and has trained volunteers who act as ‘books’ to help you explore social issues.

Year 1

Year 1 will introduce you to sociology and its application, social policy, social welfare and social inequalities. You will also learn about how social scientists conduct their research and further the knowledge base of their respective disciplines.

Year 2

In your second year you will be able to choose the subjects that interest you most through option modules.

Placements

Spend a year on placement

Gain valuable experience and earn money during an optional placement year following year 2. You’ll return to the final year of your degree with added confidence, real-world experience and valuable contacts. 

A placement year significantly improves your CV, giving you a distinct advantage over others when applying for jobs and starting your career. It will also help you to develop the softer skills such as communication and teamwork.

For the assessed part of your placement, you will create a reflective piece of work on professional practice and skills. 

The university has links with a wide range of organisations including in health, culture and heritage, housing, councils, the police, the probation service, policy think tanks and charities.

Our dedicated Placements and Employability team will support you in getting a placement that meets with your interests and career ambitions. They can help with CVs and cover letter writing, applications, online testing and more. Plus, they’ll provide support and guidance when you’re on placement and make sure that everything is going well.

Other placement opportunities

In your second year the Community Engagement option module offers the opportunity to engage with a local not-for-profit organisation and gain valuable hands-on experience. It’s a great opportunity to develop your vocational skills and gain practical work experience while contributing to the wider community. 

You will spend around 50 hours volunteering with an organisation, often working with vulnerable people, in sometimes challenging situations. This will be supported and underpinned by organisational training, tutor support and by in-class teaching covering theories of community engagement, organisational structure and culture, and reflective learning. 

Previous students have had placements with organisations including:

• CCHF All About Kids

• Centre for Ecotherapy

• Connect

• Samaritans

• MS Society

• Fresh Start

• Alzheimer’s Society

• Sussex Prisoners’ Families

• Age UK

• YMCA

• MindOut

• Trust for Developing Communities

• Healthwatch 芭乐视频 & Hove.

Final year

The final year dissertation is your opportunity to analyse a topic of interest at length. The rest of the curriculum consists largely of option modules, allowing you further room to specialise.

Lab facilities

Mithras House has a series of lab rooms which can be used for teaching on your course or in your independent research work.

Life lab
A skills-based lab for practice-based teaching, social work, psychotherapy and counselling, and employability. The Life lab is fitted with lounge furniture to provide a comfortable space for conducting qualitative research with larger groups. The lab can be used to conduct research activities with children of all ages and can be used for meetings and events. The room also contains a dedicated space to conduct assessed role play or interviews with children.

City lab
This is a qualitative research methods and creative methods resource for all students, staff and researchers, as well as research participants, including children, community groups and the general public. It can also be used for meetings and events. The City lab contains a kitchen, a teaching/meeting room with enhanced acoustic isolation and two meeting spaces that can be separated with a screen or combined to accommodate larger groups.

Design lab
Housing our extensive collection of historic dress and textiles, which are used in some teaching on our History of Art and Design courses, this has the space and equipment for you to work on textile projects. Displays created by students on these programmes are on view in the social spaces of the building.

Community lab
A space designed for collaborative student learning, this is used by students and staff involved in the university’s Global Challenges programme – our collective mission to contribute towards solutions to tackle the pressing issues facing our world.

Stats lab
A specialist workspace with computing equipment for statistical analysis and projects involving video and audio editing software. The lab contains eight acoustically treated booths for both recording and transcribing interviews undertaken as part of dissertation research and for recording and editing podcasts.

Stats lab
A specialist workspace with computing equipment for statistical analysis and projects involving video and audio editing software. The lab contains eight acoustically treated booths for both recording and transcribing interviews undertaken as part of dissertation research and for recording and editing podcasts.

Applied cognition lab
A dedicated research space for psychological research involving measures such as electrodermal activity (EDA) and electroencephalography (EEG). The space is designed to allow the participant and researcher to sit at separate desks whilst psychophysiological data is being collected. 

VR and eye tracking lab
The VR and Eye-Tracking Lab is used for psychological research using equipment, such as eye-trackers and virtual reality headsets. The space has adjustable lighting and a blackout blind for maintaining consistent lighting conditions during eye-tracking research, as well as sensors set up in the room to allow individuals to move freely around the room during virtual reality research.

Take a video tour of the labs with technicians Andrea and Grace 

Meet the team

Stephanie Fleischer, course leader

“I am a great believer in bridging the gaps between subjects, and in the social sciences we refer to various disciplines, theories and perspectives which highlight the complexity of social issues.

“I have been teaching research methods for many years, which are a central part of the social science degree. Findings not only provide answers to phenomena in society but also raise new questions about the world we live in.”

Other members of the teaching team include:

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• , psychologist
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