INTO THE 3rd Year: Module Choices and General Study Tips

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INTO THE 3rd Year Module Choices and General
Study Tips

• Peter Millward
• Dave King

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Introduction

• Module choices
• Registering for modules
• Dissertations

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Into 3rd year

• Expectations
• Changes in modules
• Attendance

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Mandatory modules

• Typical structure 332 8
• A dissertation (of some form) is a mandatory
  requirement on all in house degrees
• 21 module choices
• Can take up to 2 modules from 2nd year.

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Calculating your final grade

• 70 per cent weighting in 3rd year
• 30 per cent weighting in 2nd year
• If a candidate achieves 67-69, 57-59, 47-49 or
  37-39 by averaging, i.e. missing automatic
  classification by no more than 3, they will have
  their mark profile considered.

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Profiling your grade

• If a candidate is profiled, s/he will be awarded
  the higher class if either 120 credits of study
  in years two and three are in a higher class than
  the overall average mark and of these at least 60
  credits have been achieved in year three or 135
  credits across years two and three are in a
  higher class than the overall average mark. (The
  first condition recognises exit velocity the
  second allows performance in year two to count in
  the students favour while requiring that there
  is some performance at the higher class in year
  three.)

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Urban Sociology/Policy

• Urban Sociology (level 2) PJ/2/S
• The Local State and Social Welfare (level 2)
  SWH/1/S

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Power, participation and policy

• Community and the Problem of Crime (level 3)
  KE/2/C Per. CR DEV
• Community and public involvement in crime and
  criminal justice (level 3) LH/2/C
• Sociology of China and Social Change (level 3)
  SM/2/S

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Sociological approaches to consumption, leisure
and culture

• Leisure and Society in Modern Britain (level 2)
  KR/2/S
• The Sociology of Sport (level 2) PM/1/S
• Communicating politics the committed artist
  (level 3) ML/1/S
• Consumer culture and identity (level 3) SM/1/S

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The sociology of race and ethnicity

• The Black Presence (level 2) DF/1/S
• Question of race (level 2) MB/2/S
• Race, community and identity (level 3) DF/2/S

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Crime and contemporary culture

• Crime and popular culture (level 2) NV/2/C PER.
  Cr. DEV.
• Crime, deviance and culture (level 3) RC/1/C
• Cyber-crime and society (level 3) MD/1/C

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Sociology of gender, sexuality and the body

• Gender and sexuality (level 2) DK/2/S
• Gender and crime (level 3) KE/1/C
• Gender, the body and identity (level 3) NV/1/S
• The body and society (level 3) EE/2/S
• Health, Culture and Society (level 3) EE/1/S

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Sociology of the life-course

• Childhood, Youth and Society 1 (level 2) ML/1/S
• Childhood, Youth and Society 2 (level 3) BG/2/S
• Education and Social Change (level 2) KR/1/S
• Ageing, welfare and society (level 3) JP/2/S

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The voluntary sector (work-based learning)

• Understanding non-profit organisations (level 2)
  LH/2/S
• Applied social research (level 3)
• Reflecting on Applied Social Research (level 3)
  LH/2/S

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Criminality and social justice

• Policing, crime and society (level 2) SW/1/C
• Punishment, penality and prisons (level 2)
  BG/2/C
• Crime and the powerful (level 3) DW/2/C

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Crime, risk and surveillance

• The risk society crime, security welfare
  (level 3) GM/2/C
• Social control, order and the city (level 3)
  RC/2/C
• Child protection/child abuse (level 3) SP/2/S

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Explicitly theoretical choices

• European Social Theory PM/1/S
• Theoretical Criminology LH/1/C

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Modules with Social Policy emphasis

• Ageing, Welfare and Society
• Community and the Problem of Crime
• Childhood, Youth and Society 2
• Community and Public Involvement in Crime and
  Criminal Justice

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Combined Honours Students

• Typically take either
• 4 modules or,
• 2 modules plus a dissertation worth 30 credits
• 3 modules plus a dissertation worth 15 credits

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Taking modules from other departments

• You are allowed to elect up to two
• Make an appointment with your personal tutor/year
  tutor in advance

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Registering for modules

• 5th May-6th June window
• Access Spider Student Web
• Click on Student Records
• Registration
• Look up Modules to Add
• Select Session 200809
• Click on Submit Term

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Dissertations

• Forms must be in TODAY
• Double Unit Dissertation
• Single Unit Dissertation
• Applied Social Research
• Social Policy Project

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Questions/discussion