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MSc in Inequalities and Social Science

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Programme Code: TMINSOCSCI

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25

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 courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown below.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

SO488 Social Scientific Analysis of Inequalities (0.5)

Paper 2

For students enrolled on the Atlantic Fellows Social and Economic Equity Programme:

SO4A8 Leadership and Social Change (0.5)

For all other students, one from:

MY421A Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY421W Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MY426 Doing Ethnography (0.5) #

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following:

AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)

AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)

DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5)

DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)

EU4A4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5)

GV4D7 Dilemmas of Equality (0.5)

GV4L4 Critical Theory and Political Action (0.5)

GY404 Inclusive Growth (0.5) #

GY413 Regional Development and Policy (0.5) #

GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5)

GY477 Race, Capitalism and Resistance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

LL4CG Tax Policy and Design (0.5) #

LL4CO Taxation of Wealth (0.5) #

LL4H8 Employment Law (0.5)

MC407 International Media and The Global South (0.5) #

MC433 Technology and Justice (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG4D2 International Employment Relations (0.5) #

SO454 Families and Inequalities (0.5)

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO480 Urban Inequalities (0.5)

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

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO4B5 The Anticolonial Archive (0.5)

SO4C2 Racial Capitalism (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO4C3 Social Mobility, Politics and Meritocracy (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO4C4 Global Mobilities: International Migration (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SP477 Crime, Justice & Social Policy (0.5)

Paper 4

SO497 MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Dissertation (1.0)

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.