MSc Sociology

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three units and write a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO401

Social Research Methods

2 & 3

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

 

GI408

Cultural Constructions of the Body (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV479

Nationalism

SO407

Politics and Society

SO409

Crime and Society: Concepts and Method (n/a 11/12)

SO420

Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power (H)

SO424

Approaches to Human Rights

SO425

Regulation, Risk and Economic Life (n/a 11/12)

SO426

Classical Social Thought (H)

SO427

Modern Social Thought (H) 

SO430

Economic Sociology (H) 

SO433

Cultural Theory (H)

SO438

Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO439

Sociology of Employment II: Contemporary Management and Globalisation (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

SO445

New Media, Development and Globalisation (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO447

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies

SO451

Cities by Design (H)

SO454

Families in Contemporary Societies: a Life Course Perspective (H)

SO457

Political Reconciliation (H)

SO458

Gender and Societies (H)

SO461

Racial Formations of Modernity (H)

SO463

Contemporary Social Thought

SO464

Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Colonial Societies (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO466

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

SO467

Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945) (H)

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

SO470

The Sociology of Markets and Economic Life (H)

4

SO499

Dissertation

 

 

 

MSc Sociology (Contemporary Social Thought)

1

SO463

Contemporary Social Thought

2 & 3

Courses to the value of two units from the following:

 

SO426

Classical Social Thought (H)

 

SO427

Modern Social Thought (H) 

 

SO433

Cultural Theory (H)

 

Other options from the Department of Sociology and approved outside options.

4

SO499

Dissertation

 

 

 

MSc Sociology (Economic Sociology)

1

SO430

Economic Sociology (H)

2 & 3

Optional courses to the value of 2.5 units from the following:

 

SO420

Approaches to Globalisation

 

SO438

Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

SO439

Sociology of Employment II: Contemporary Management and Globalisation (H) (n/a 11/12)

 

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

 

SO470

The Sociology of Markets and Economic Life (H)

 

Other options from the Department of Sociology and approved outside options.

4

SO499

Dissertation

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