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Politics and Sociology at University of Portsmouth - UCAS

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2025 - 20262026 - 2027
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University of Portsmouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Course summary

Overview Explore the forces shaping our world today. Investigate power, inequality, and social change across communities, nations, and global systems. Discover how political decisions and social movements influence everyday lives—and how you can play a role in shaping the future. With real-world research, hands-on fieldwork, and expert-led teaching, this BA (Hons) Politics and Sociology degree gives you the tools to understand and challenge the world around you. This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. This is a new course and we’re currently finalising the detailed information for this page. You can still see entry requirements and apply.

Modules

Year 1 Core modules

  • Analysing Politics: Britain and Beyond - 20 credits
  • Key Themes in International Relations - 20 credits
  • Navigating Global Challenges - 20 credits
  • Observing Society - 20 credits
  • Political Thought - 20 credits
  • Social Inequalities - 20 credits
Year 2 Core modules
  • Comparative European Politics - 20 credits
  • Doing Sociological Research - 20 credits
  • Ideology and Politics - 20 credits
  • Modernity and Globalisation - 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Analysing Foreign Policy - 20 credits
  • Autocracy and Democracy - 20 credits
  • British Political Leadership - 20 credits
  • Family, Career and Generation - 20 credits
  • Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits
  • Global Crises: Climate, Conflict and Insecurity - 20 credits
  • Professional Experience (Placement) - 20 credits
  • Race and Racism - 20 credits
  • Risk and Society - 20 credits
  • Social Power, Elites and Dissent - 20 credits
  • Transitional Justice and Human Rights - 20 credits
  • Work, Employment and Society - 20 credits
Year 3 Optional modules
  • Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues - 20 credits
  • Dissertation - 40 credits
  • Emotions and Social Life - 20 credits
  • Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice - 20 credits
  • Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits
  • Global Capitalism - 20 credits
  • Global Health - 20 credits
  • Independent Project - 20 credits
  • Looking for Utopia, Finding Dystopia? Ideas and Ideologies in the New Millennium - 20 credits
  • Major Project - 40 credits
  • NGOs and Social Movements - 20 credits
  • Post-Brexit Politics - 20 credits
  • Professional Experience - 20 credits
  • Religion and Politics in a Global Perspective - 20 credits
  • Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity - 20 credits
  • The EU: An International Power in the Making - 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life - 20 credits

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
Cambridge English AdvancedCambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English ProficiencyCambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
PTE Academic62An overall score of 62 with a minimum of 59 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)7979 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Trinity ISEPassTrinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components.

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £9535 Year 1
England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1
International £17200 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad (at the time of publishing for 2025/26): UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £1,430 EU – £1,430 International (Non-EU) – £2,875. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Please check the course page on our website for the most up to date fee information All fees are subject to annual increase. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-fees-and-student-finance/tuition-fees-living-costs-and-other-study-costs
Politics and Sociology at University of Portsmouth - UCAS