Sociology at Warwick 09/10

I do sociology. What's it like is a bit of a vague question, but all in all I've been having a good time with it. It really does depend on what modules you pick cuz if you enjoy them like I do mine, it really is a good course. Have you considered modules yet?

If I may ask, what modules did you pick? I'm 99% certain I'm going for the research methods specialism at the moment...

Uhm I'm not sure what the required modules are for the research methods specialism, but keep in mind that they don't require you too choose a specialism until your 2nd year. But I would check because some specialisms have requirements in your first year. Anyway, I took:

Sociological Imagination and Investigation (required for all 1st years)
Media Sociology
Modernity and Globalization

and I took an outside option in The World Economy: History and Theory.

So if you have any questions about those, I can probably answer them. And a close friend has taken Social Welfare in Britain so I'll probably be able to forward you answers for that if you have questions on that module

oooo do you have any tips for the naive fresher?

I thiiiiiiiiiink I'm going to take:
Sociological Imagination and Investigation (obviously!)
Social Welfare in Britain
State, Society and Work

(and hopefully if they'll let me) I'll take Learning Japanese 2 as the fourth optional one...

I'm a bit worried about how the available modules change so much every year!!!

Uhhm tips? Firstly I'd say don't bother with reading lists if you actually get them hahaha. And secondly if you want to take a language course so that it counts towards your degree, then get in line fast as LOADS of people line up for those (that's in the Humanities building). And also I'm not sure about State, Society and Work.. but it wasn't offered this year, you should check the website's last updated date on the bottom right corner of the page to make sure it's up to date .

And join the Sociology Society at the SU website!

i was just wondering, what grades did you get at A Level? i'm looking to apply for sociology at warwick for 2010 entry and want to know if i'm gonna be ok for it! thankssss

I actually didn't take A-levels but I took the equivalent in the American system, but I'll tell you what I got anyway:

European History - A
Macroeconomics - A
Japanese - A
Spanish - B
Studio Art - B

The general requirements I believe are BBB or BBC, but due to my luck I got an ABBB, with an A in Macroeconomics. Atleast it worked out for me I suppose Good luck!

hi, just stumbled across this thread, thought I'd let you know I'm doing Sociology at Warwick 09 too! See you there (hopefully lol)

i was just wondering..

oooo do you have any tips for the naive fresher?

Hey, I've accepted an offer to study Sociology at Warwick.

You know i've not even thought about looking at modules yet. Should I be doing that now?

God, I missed my grades for this course. I had to have 9/10 overall in the Romanian Baccalaureate including 9/10 in Math.
I got 9.63/10 overall, but missed math at 8.55/10. Do you guys think I still have a chance? The math exam was absolutely awful, I mean really hard, and in all the country the grades are really low. I don't know what to do next...

I'm also thinking that math is not that relevant for this course, especially that in Romania we have a reaaaaally complicated calculus+algebra curriculum..

I'm at Warwick studying Sociology at the moment too (just finished 1st year) - thought I'd drop in and say hi

Those of you thinking about taking Social Welfare in Britain, I'd advise against it, or at least take it in 2nd year rather than 1st. I didn't take it myself but friends who did found it difficult and pretty hard work.

I took Gender Class and Empire, Media Sociology and International Perspectives on Gender, so if anyone has any questions about any of those I'm happy to help.

Might be nice to have an idea of what you want to do, but there's a lecture in your first week where all lecturers of all first year modules talk to you about what the modules will be like, so it's all good!