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If you have an enquiring, questioning mind and you want to understand more about human societies, social problems, interactions and experiences, you will thrive on this BSc (Hons) Public Sociology course, the first public sociology course in Scotland.

Intellectually stimulating and personally empowering, this course will invite you to embrace new ideas and schools of thought. It encourages rigorous critical thinking on complex and challenging social issues, opening the door to a wide range of careers.

Year 1: Developmental and social psychology; Exploring research; Material culture: the social life of things; Current debates in sociology; Education, race and ethnicity; Engaged sociology.

Year 3: Sociology of knowledge and science; Understanding the sociological present; Social process and social movements; Class, poverty and inequality: social policy responses; Research skills; Community education and the organic intellectual.

Year 4 (Honours): Disseration.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

Relevant HND