BSc (Hons) Sociology & Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Programme overview

An honours degree structured around three themes: Individuals, Society and Power; Identity, Difference and Inequality; and Space, Place and Justice. Students apply learning through volunteering and an external work-based learning placement in year two. Taught at Llandaff Campus.

Faculty: Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy | Duration: 3 years full time; 4 years full time with a foundation year; 6 years part time | Intake: 2027 entry | Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year one: Introduction to Social Science, Individuals Institutions and Society, Academic and Employability Skills, People Place and Power, Poverty and Justice, and Conflict Change and Difference. Year two: Work-based Learning, Land Food and Justice, Stigma Difference and Exclusion, Social Research Methods, Race Ethnicity and Power, and Gender Sexuality and Inequality. Year three: Research and Employability, Applied Entrepreneurial Skills, Work Welfare and Inclusion, Displacement Migration and Homelessness and a 40-credit Individual Evidence Based Project.

Career pathways

Local and national government, social services, public health, education, criminal justice, third sector organisations, research and think tanks, community development, housing and social work; postgraduate study including the MRes Social Policy.

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Entry requirements

Typical offer for year one entry: 104 tariff points. A levels: minimum three A levels including grades CCC, no specific subjects (Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject). BTEC National / Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM. T Level: Merit. Access to Higher Education Diploma: no specific subjects. Irish Leaving Certificate: 2 x H2. Scottish Advanced Highers: DD. GCSE: preferably five at grade C/4 or above including English Language (or Welsh First Language) and Mathematics (or Mathematics - Numeracy). Contextual offers are available. A foundation year is available for applicants who do not meet the standard requirements. International applicants: academic IELTS 6.0 overall with at least 5.5 in all elements, or equivalent.

Domestic applicants: GBP 9,790 a year (2026/27). Full-time home undergraduate tuition fee; may increase by any level permitted by the Welsh Government. Source

International applicants: GBP 16,000 a year (2026/27). Full-time international undergraduate tuition fee. Source

Intake: 2027 entry

Duration: 3 years full time; 4 years full time with a foundation year; 6 years part time

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