MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society

Full-year programme. Students must take three courses and write a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO455

Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society

2&3

Courses to the value of two full units from the following:

 

AN405

The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

AN437

Anthropology of Learning and Cognition

DV411

Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (H)

DV413

Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

DV421

HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H)

GI405

Globalising Sexualities (H)

GI408

Cultural Constructions of the Body (H)

GY420

Environmental Regulation 

GY423

Environment and Development

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY475

Issues in Environmental Governance (H)

GY468

Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (H)

GY469

Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South (H)

LL416

Regulating New Medical Technologies +

LL465

Law and Social Theory

LL4C1

Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (n/a 11/12)

LL4C8

Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law

LL4Z8

Banking Law (H)

MY400

Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (H)

MY421

Qualitative Research Methods (H)

MY426

Doing Qualitative Fieldwork (H)

MY427

Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H)

MY429

Special Topics in Qualitative Research Methods (H)

MY451

Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (H)

MY456

Survey Methodology (H)

PH411

Philosophy of Biological and Cognitive Sciences

PH415

Philosophy and Public Policy

PH423

Evidence, Objectivity and Policy

PS439

Science, Technology and Resistance (H)

SA407

Politics and Society (H)

SA408

Health Economics (H)

SA447

Foundations of Health Policy (H)

SA427

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies (H)

SO407

Politics and Society

SO420

Approaches to Globalisation (H)

SO426

Classical Social Thought (H)

SO427

Modern Social Thought (H)

SO433

Cultural Theory (H)

SO447

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies

SO466

Race and Biopolitics (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

SO470

The Sociology of Markets and Economic Life (H)

 

Up to one full course option from the approved courses offered by other departments

4

SO499

Dissertation

Notes

+ Students can take LL416 as their dissertation in place of SO499 and then select a further one full unit of courses from papers 3&4.

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