Sociology/French

Sociology and French is a combination that approaches the social world through two complementary lenses: one analytical and theoretical, the other linguistic and cultural. Sociology gives you the conceptual tools to understand how societies are structured, how inequality operates, how institutions reproduce power, and how collective life is organised and contested. French opens access to one of Europe's richest intellectual and cultural traditions, from medieval literature and the Enlightenment to contemporary French society, cinema, and thought.

Together the two disciplines give you a distinctively wide range of analytical and communicative abilities.

At Glasgow you will study this five-year full-time programme, which includes a sandwich year and a work placement, giving you substantial professional experience alongside your academic study. Your French studies will take you across a range of topics spanning literature, culture, history, and contemporary French society, developing your language skills to a high level through reading, writing, speaking and listening in French. Your sociology will engage you with social theory, research methods, and empirical investigation of the social world, from class and race to digital society and global inequality.

The two disciplines are taught together through a programme that recognises the genuine connections between sociological analysis and cultural knowledge.

Graduates of sociology and French find their dual expertise valued across a wide range of careers. International organisations, NGOs, the civil service, journalism, education, research, and roles in French-speaking contexts across the world are all accessible. The combination of social science analysis and language fluency is particularly valued in international development, human rights work, and policy roles.

Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in sociology, French studies, European studies, or social policy, building on the combination of skills and knowledge that this unusual degree provides.