Employability


Our postgraduate degrees provide students with a range of skills and


knowledge which are attractive to a wide variety of employers in both public and private sectors.


Multicultural Societies Politics, Publics and Expertise


Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences Science, Technology and Society Security and Modernity Social Theory and the Environment The European Union


The ‘State’ of Contemporary Capitalism


Not all options will be available in any one year. Please see our website for an up to date listing of all optional courses. MA in Society, Technology and Nature


Director of Studies: Dr Richard Twine. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time. Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, science). Appropriate work experience also taken into account. Assessment: Combination of coursework and dissertation. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: See page 213. Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology


The MA in Society, Technology and Nature introduces you to the social studies of technoscience and the natural environment. You are taught by some of the leading academic figures in these fields, and become part of an intellectual community that links a number of significant Lancaster-based research centres, including the Centre for Science Studies, the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, and the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics.


You can specialise in your chosen area of study by taking one of three pathways:


Technoscience and Culture Genetics, Culture and Public Policy Environment, Culture and Public Policy


As well as pathway-specific modules related to your chosen specialism, all pathways have a set of common modules designed to provide you with the necessary theoretical resources, a critical understanding of the role of knowledge in public policy, and a familiarity with important research methods for investigating these domains. You will thus be better equipped to identify and analyse important real-world problems and mobilise appropriate intellectual resources for understanding and intervention.


Technoscience and Culture


This pathway is for those who would like to acquire theoretical, methodological and policy-related skills for understanding contemporary science and technology and its social and political dimensions in a range of different empirical contexts including health, information technologies, the environment and genomics.


You are required to take the following core modules: Science, Technology and Society, and Policy, Publics and Expertise. You and can then select four modules from an extensive list to fit with your interests.


Genetics, Culture and Public Policy This pathway provides a unique basis for further research and study in the social sciences, focused on the social impact of genomics and related biosciences. Capitalising on our expertise in the ethical, social, economic and cultural dimensions of the biosciences, the pathway responds to the dramatic increase in public concern in this domain by providing specialised teaching and research training in this important emerging field.


You are required to take the following core modules: Genomics and Society; Science, Technology and Society, and Policy, Publics and Expertise. You and can then select three modules from an extensive list to reflect your interests.


Environment, Culture and Public Policy This draws on our expertise in the critical analysis of the social, political and cultural dimensions of environmental and technological controversies. Drawing on environmental sociology and other disciplinary approaches, you critically explore key concepts such as science, risk, value, modernity, expertise and lay knowledge. Through investigating a wide


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