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We offer the following five pathways:
Optional Modules
You must choose four optional courses. Optional courses currently
Contemporary Sociology
include:
Introduces you to a broad range of recent developments within the
discipline of sociology and within the contemporary world at large.
Animals, Science and Society
Anthropology of Cybercultures
Cultural Sociology
Cinema and Social Theory Sociology
Explores the ‘cultural turn’ in contemporary Sociology by focusing
Consumer Society
on key areas such as consumer culture, material culture, media and
Contested Natures
visual analysis and multiculturalism.
Critical Debates in Cultural Studies
Deliberation, Consultation, Participation
Economy and Society
Developments and Challenges of the Information Age
Addresses the social organisation of economies and their associated
Elementary Data Analysis
distributions of power.
Environment and Culture: Issues, Politics and Institutions
Environmental Risk
Mobilities
Feminist Cultural Theory
Introduces a new approach within the social sciences that focuses
Gender and Globalisation
on studying the intersecting mobilities of people, objects,
Gender, Sex and Bodies
technologies and ideas.
Genomics and Society
Global Health: Debates in Medical Anthropology
Social and Cultural Theory
Globalisation, the State and Democracy in the Third World
Introduces you to the range of major theoretical traditions within
Key Thinkers: Michel Foucault
sociology as well as the changing contours of the frontiers of the
Mediated Nature: Communication Media and the Environment
discipline.
Medical Knowledge, Technologies and Practices
Arts and Social Sciences:
Multicultural Societies
Course Structure
Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences
For each of the MA Sociology pathways you are required to take a
Science, Technology and Society
two-part core course designated for your chosen pathway, complete
Security and Modernity
4 further optional modules, and submit a dissertation.
Social Theory and the Environment
The European Union
Core Modules
The ‘State’ of Contemporary Capitalism
All pathways involve a particular mix of core (compulsory) and
optional modules. Depending on the pathway taken, core modules
Not all options will be available in any one year. Please see our
will include some of the following:
website for an up to date listing of all optional courses.
Contemporary Debates in Sociology
Critical Debates in Cultural Studies
Mobilities, Society and Change
Mobilities: Theories and Methods
Theories of Economy and Society
Social and Cultural Theory
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