variety of empirical case-studies, you gain a richer understanding of environmental issues, and improved resources of critical judgement for dealing with them. Students that have taken this MA pathway have gone on to work in organisations such as the Sierra Club, WWF, Germany’s Green Party, and the UK’s Forestry Commission.


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


MA in Sociological Research


Director of Studies: Professor Andrew Sayer. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time. Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in a relevant social science. Assessment: Combination of coursework and dissertation. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: ESRC (1+3) - see also page 213. Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology


This ESRC recognised MA gives you a rigorous introduction to key issues in social science methodology, expands your proficiency in a range of research skills, and prepares you for further advanced research in the social sciences.


MA in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology


Please see entry under Gender and Women’s Studies.


MA in Media and Cultural Studies


Director of Studies: Debra Ferreday. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time. Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in a relevant discipline. Assessment: Combination of coursework and dissertation IELTS: 6.5


Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology


This programme explores key debates and issues in cultural analysis and media theory, ranging from the work of classic cultural theorists such as Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams through to contemporary writing on new media and globalised culture. The option modules offer the opportunity to explore issues in a more detailed way, with greater focus upon analytical methods.


Among the issues engaged with are the politics of studying popular culture, the emergence of transnational theory and non-western perspectives on culture and media; the cultural and political effects of developments in new media and communications technology; consumer society and economic models of culture; the gendered body and sexuality and identity.


This interdisciplinary programme is suitable for those with backgrounds in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines as well as students who have studied Media, Film or Cultural Studies at undergraduate level.


Core courses:


Critical debates in Cultural Studies Critical methods in Cultural Research


Optional courses currently include: Consumer society


Contemporary debates in sociology: critique and value Critical Discourse Analysis Critical Media Practice


Debates in Contemporary Feminism Embodiment, Technology and Subjectivity Feminist cultural theory Key Thinkers: Michel Foucault Mobilities: Society and Change


Sights/Sites of Memory and the Configuration of Social Life Social Theory The Tourist Gaze


Arts and Social Sciences 97


Sociology


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