Sociology (Hons) Coventry University

Overview

Other benefits include the following:

A range of topics covered on the Sociology (Hons) programme from Coventry University can include gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, crime and identities.

Quick Facts:

• Opportunities to expand international experience by participating in studying or working abroad2.
• Opportunities to develop skills that potential and future employers desire from graduates, such as: workload and project management, presentational, verbal and written communication skills, working with others, and critical thinking.
• Current excellent professional links with local and national employers and visiting speakers from areas of industry and practice relevant to your sociology course2 (subject to availability).

Careers and opportunities

On successful completion, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate systematic knowledge and critical understanding of sociological thought and how this develops from empirical research and theorising.
• Evidence systematic knowledge and critical understanding of social issues and social problems that are central to sociological debates.
• Develop critical knowledge and awareness of the ethical, political, socio-economic, cultural, and global contexts that frame sociological investigation.
• Demonstrate and recognise their abilities to locate, generate, critically analyse, and interpret data and information, and construct evidence-based and theoretically informed arguments.
• Reflect on their own perspectives and positionality in relation to the viewpoints expressed in the learning community of social science.