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MSc in Culture and Society

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Programme Code: TMCUSO

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

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 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

SO4D3 Culture and Society (0.5)

SO4D4 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (0.5)

Paper 2

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

Paper 3

A

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

EU4A3 The Americas and Europe (0.5)

GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (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)

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)

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

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

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

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

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)

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

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)

SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

Paper 4

SO493 MSc in Culture and Society Dissertation (1.0)

Footnotes

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

A: Paper 3: Or any other MSc level course offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's teachers.

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.