社会学关注发展理论和概念以解释当代社会世界的起源和本质，并试图通过系统地收集证据来为这些理论辩护。中心目标是为学生提供与他们所生活的更广泛的社会以及他们所工作的就业环境有关的解释性框架。通过社会学课程，您可以深入探索当代爱尔兰和世界范围内的一系列社会问题，以及对先进工业社会，信息社会，全球发展，教育，工作，冲突和多样性的理解。我们的课程利用我们员工的研究实力，确保您学习前沿的社会学理论，并有机会探索真实的案例研究。阿尔斯特大学的社会学学位为研究培训提供了强大的要素，使我们的毕业生能够获得现有的最佳研究技能
Sociology at Ulster has a record of excellence in teaching and learning, regularly achieving 100% satisfaction rates in the National Student Survey. Sociology is concerned with developing theories and concepts to explain the origins and nature of the contemporary social world and seeks to justify such theories through systematically collected evidence. A central aim is to provide students with explanatory frameworks relevant to both the wider society in which they will live and the employment settings in which they will work. Through the Sociology curriculum, you can explore in depth a range of social issues in contemporary Ireland and the world, and understandings of advanced industrial societies, digital society, global development, education, work, conflict, and diversity. Our curriculum draws on the research strengths of our staff, ensuring you learn cutting-edge sociological theory with the opportunity to explore real case studies. The Ulster University Sociology degrees provide a strong element of research training, giving our graduates access to the best research skills available, and access to a wide range of careers. Criminology, as the minor one-third of your degree, will introduce a range of ideas, theories and mainstream concepts of criminology and criminal justice, for example, crime and deviance, victims, sentencing, punishment, policing, terrorism, surveillance, and emergent ideas on state crime. These, coupled with knowledge of legal institutions and structures, will provide you with a wider understanding of criminology and criminal justice systems.