Sociology and Criminology
Study at a university ranked 9th in the UK for sociology*. Browse our sociology modules below, and if you’re unsure what to study, follow our top tips for how to choose a module.
Browse our modules
You can see our full list of sociology modules below.
Year 1
Year 2
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Autumn Semester
- Beyond the Vote: Citizenship and Participation in Sociology
- Class, Culture & Conflict: A View from The Inside
- Drugs, Crime and Deviant Leisure
- A Sociology of Generations and Social Change? From Passive to Active Generations
- Police and Policing
- Police and Policing (Elective)
- Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
- Sociology of Emotions and Mental Health
- Victimisation, Social Harm and Justice (Aut)
- Spring Semester
Year 3
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Autumn Semester
- The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Aut)
- Carceral Technologies
- Crimes against Humanity (Aut)
- Identity and Interaction
- Migration, Identity, and Home
- Organised Crime from a Global Perspective (Aut)
- Riots, Strikes, Revolts (Aut)
- Sociology Research Proposal
- The Body (Aut)
- Transcendence, Devotion and Desire
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Spring Semester
- Capitalism, Growth, and Ecological Crisis
- Criminology of Violence and Death
- Critical Perspectives on Terrorism
- Sociology of Family, Reproduction & Care (Spr)
- Medicine and the Body
- Neurocriminology
- The Politics of Race in Europe
- Sexualities / Intimacies / Intersections (Spring)
- Sociology Project
- Surveillance, Technology and Control
Not sure how to choose?
Follow our top tips for choosing your modules. You can also find out about our teaching structure, assessment process and how your credits transfer back to your home institution.
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Which school will I study in?
You'll study in the Department of Sociology which is part of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology.
Our academics are experts in topics such as social justice, gender inequalities, identity, health care and migration.
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Our sociology research
Our researchers are influencing and driving public debates and policy developments worldwide. We strive to better understand our world by developing a deeper theoretical understanding, and seek to innovate across sociology, criminology, and numerous interdisciplinary fields.
Our research influences the way we teach, and you learn from academics at the forefront of their fields.
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Contact us
If you are studying at Sussex for a semester or year and have questions, email sussexabroad@sussex.ac.uk.
*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 **(Our campus is nine minutes by train from Brighton & Hove) survey by accommodation providers Student Living by Sodexo. Rankings based on full undergraduate degree at Sussex.