Course structure

The programme is structured to allow students the freedom to build their degree around particular interests whilst retaining a core grounding in key social science disciplines.

Thus, some students will chose to concentrate on a closely related set of modules from the three departments, for instance on identities and inequalities, urban studies and housing, or environmental policy and sustainability, while others may chose to be more eclectic in their selection.

Programme

Year 1

Year 1

Year 2

Year 2

  • Social Research Methods (30 Credits, Compulsory)
  • Option from Table B1 (30 Credits)
  • Option from Table B2 (30 Credits)
  • Option from Table B3 (30 Credits)

Year 3

Year 3

  • Dissertation (40 Credits, Core)
  • Contemporary Issues in SPS (20 Credits)
  • Option from Tables C, D or E (20 Credits)
  • Option from Tables C, D or E (20 Credits)
  • Option from Tables C, D or E (20 Credits)

Option tables

Table A Options

Table B1 Options

  • Gender, Sexulaity & Diversity
  • Popular Culture, Media & Society
  • Contemporary  Political Sociology
  • Social Interaction & Conversation Analysis
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Science in Society

Table B2 Options

  • Contemporary Political Philosophy
  • Politics of the United Kingdom
  • Politics of Development
  • Historical Sociology
  • State, Economy & Society
  • War and Peace
  • History of Political Thought

Table B3 Options

  • Comparative Social Policy
  • The Policy Process
  • The Social Psychology of Childhood Adolescence
  • Social Inequalities
  • Environmental Policy
  • Social Enterprise

all subject to availability

Table C Options

  • Paranormal in Society

  • Advanced Social Theory

  • Sexuality, Technology, Culture

  • House, Home & Society

  • Humans & Other Animals

  • Cinema & Social Criticism

  • Birth, Death, Marriage

  • Language & Social Institutions

  • Body, Identity & Society

  • Class & Stratification in the 21st Century

  • Performance & Society

  • Sociology of Art

Table D Options

  • Criminal Justice & Policing
  • Demography, Society & Policy
  • Housing Policy
  • Sex, Sexuality & Policy
  • Understanding Families and Family Life
  • Working in Organisations
  • Child Abuse & Social Policy
  • Comparative & International Social Policy
  • Disability & Community Care
  • Health & Inequality
  • Sustainable Development & Social Inclusion
  • Wellbeing of Children & Young People

All subject to availability

Table E Options

  • Ethnicity & Conflict

  • Authority & The Liberal Tradition

  • Global Justice

  • Violence in International Politics

  • Governance of Security

  • Post-Conflict State-Building

  • Never Mind the Ballots!

  • From War to Peace?

  • Governing the Global Economy

  • Green Politics

  • British Foreign Policy after the Cold War

  • Princes, Republics & Utopias

  • Karl Marx

  • Cities, Politics & Power

  • Philosophy of the Criminal Law