MSc in Political Sociology
Programme code: TMPOSO(SO)
Department: Sociology
This information is for the 2017/18 session.
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules
Full-year programme. Students must take three courses and a dissertation as shown.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
|---|---|---|
1 |
Politics and Society | |
2 |
One full unit or two half units from the following: | |
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Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Democracy, Ideology and the European State (H) | ||
EU460 |
European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) | |
The Future: Political Responses to a Challenge (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Nationalism (not available 2017/18) | ||
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H) | ||
|
Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) | |
| ||
Approaches to Human Rights | ||
Regulation, Risk and Economic Life | ||
Classical Social Thought (H) | ||
Modern Social Thought (H) | ||
Economic Sociology (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Political Reconciliation (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Gender and Societies (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
International Migration and Migrant Integration (H) | ||
Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H) | ||
The Sociology of Markets (H) | ||
Technology, Power and Culture (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H) | ||
Class, Politics and Culture (H) | ||
Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Social Change Organizations (H) | ||
Contemporary Social Thought (H) | ||
Quantitative Social Research Methods (H) | ||
Qualitative Social Research Methods (H) | ||
3 |
One full unit or two half units either from the list under Paper 2 above, or from any of the MSc courses offered in any department or institute at the LSE, so long as they are relevant to the study of political sociology, and subject to the approval of both Programme Director and course teacher. | |
4 |
MSc in Political Sociology Dissertation | |
