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This course is ideal preparation for a wide range of careers in which you can contribute to improving people’s lives. As a student on this course, you will study a broad range of stimulating and empowering topics, benefit from opportunities to experience work/volunteer-based learning and participate in community-engagement projects, and have the opportunity to go on a student exchange overseas*.

Sociology focuses on understanding how people’s lives and interactions are shaped by factors like class, gender, ethnicity, race, disability and age in national and global contexts. Sociologists interpret and explain how social processes and institutions inform and impact people’s everyday lives.

Throughout your studies, you will examine how, where, when and why social inequalities, injustices and divisions arise; consider ways in which we can challenge, understand and overcome social problems and ethical dilemmas through public policy and social action; and interpret the relationship between identity, community and society, locally and globally. You will also conduct research into real-world issues, as well as make concrete recommendations for social change.

* Subject to availability.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

4 Highers at BBBB (standard entry) or BCCC including an English based subject plus English and preferably Maths at National 5.