Paper 1

SO434 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

Paper 2

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

Paper 3

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Courses to the value of 1.5 unit(s) from the following:

GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)

GI403 Gender and Media Representation (0.5)

GI410 Screening the 21st Century: Cinema and Cultural Critique (0.5) #

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5)

GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MC402 The Audience in Media and Communications (0.5) #

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (0.5) #

MC420 Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MY424 Advanced qualitative field methods for researching space and place (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

PB432 Social Representations: Social Knowledge and Contemporary Issues (0.5)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5)

SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5)

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO482 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO4B6 Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)

Paper 4

SO493 MSc in Culture and Society Dissertation (1.0)