Order and Disorder B: Understanding Law, Politics and Sociology (LPS02)

15 credits, Level 3 (sub-degree)

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll explore inequality, violence and protest as forms of disorder from legal, political and sociological perspectives. You’ll examine how social problems are understood, addressed and how social change happens. This module builds on ‘Order and Disorder A’, which is a prerequisite.

You’ll be challenged to question your assumptions about the social world and tackle complex social scientific problems. Key topics include:

• core legal, political and sociological concepts
• the institutions that govern the social world.

You’ll also develop key academic skills such as analysing texts, critical thinking and building coherent arguments.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.