MSc in Culture and Society  

Programme code: TMCUSO

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 take two compulsory courses, optional courses to the value of 1.5 units plus the dissertation as shown. 

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO434

Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms

2

SO492

Qualitative Social Research Methods (H)

3

Optional courses to the value of 1.5 full units selected from the following:

 

GI402

Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (H)

GI403

Gender and Media Representation (H)

GI410

Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (H)

GI421

Sexuality, Gender and Culture (H)

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY479

Urban Revolutions (H)

MC402

The Audience in Media and Communications (H)

MC408

Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Media and Power) (H)

MC420

Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (H) (not available 2017/18)

MY427

Non-Traditional Data: New Dimensions in Qualitative Research (H)

PS410

Social Representations (H) 

PS411

Current Communication Research (H)

PS451

Cognition and Culture (H)

SO425

Regulation, Risk and Economic Life

SO426

Classical Social Thought (H)

SO444

Qualitative Methods for Cultural Research (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

SO471

Technology, Power and Culture (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO475

Material Culture and Design (H)

SO477

Urban Social Theory (H)

SO479

Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H)

SO481

Class, Politics and Culture (H)

SO482

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO490

Contemporary Social Thought (H)

 

Or any other MSc level course offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's teachers.

4

SO493

MSc in Culture and Society Dissertation

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