The library and e-brary
Blackboard
Lecture and seminar rooms with Powerpoint presentation and DVD playback facilities
Seminar rooms suitable for group work
PCs with student access to email, internet and word-processing

Dillon, Michele (2010) Introduction to Sociological Theory. Theorists, Concepts and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Collins, Randall (1994) Four Sociological Traditions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Giddens, Anthony (2009) Sociology, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Giddens, Anthony and Philip W. Sutton (eds) (2010) Sociology: Introductory Readings, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Whole group lectures, supported by seminars. Seminars will support students' learning through encouraging students to engage with the major themes and ideas introduced in lectures and through promoting the further development of subject and other key skills. In addition, seminars will support and guide students in the use of independent study time in order to prepare for workshops, and in order to fulfil assessment requirements. Students will also be provided with a Blackboard learning environment with additional learning and teaching resources, and a discussion board. Directed study schemes form an explicit part of the independent learning strategy, requiring students to work on particular materials, issues and concepts. Students are also encouraged to seek individual tutorial.

Key Information Set:
16% scheduled learning and teaching activities comprising:
Lectures
Seminars
Formative assessments

84% guided independent learning activities comprising:
Guided reading and research
Personal tutorials
Preparation for scheduled sessions
Completion of assessment tasks

This module introduces students to the theoretical origins of sociology as well as to sociological theories, perspectives and evidence regarding modernity and the social world. Students will be familiarised with the idea of a science of society and where it originated, as well as with the theories of the founders of sociology as a discipline (Durkheim, Weber and Marx) as well as contemporary sociological theories and perspectives (such as the Frankfurt School, Feminism, Symbolic Interactionism, Postmodernism). The module will explore how sociological theorists set out to explain the transformation and broad contours of modern Western society, especially its defining characteristics and its most pressing problems.

Learning Outcomes 1-5

Key Information Set:
100% coursework