Course Content
Year 1
- What is Politics?
- Introduction to Sociological Theory
- Introducing Social Policy
- Contemporary Issues in Social and Political Sciences
Year 2
- Doing Research
Year 3
- Dissertation
Option modules
Year 2
Department of Sociology
- Gender, Sexuality & Inequality
- Popular Culture, Media and Society
- Contemporary Political Sociology
- Social Interaction and Conversational Analysis
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Nature, Culture and Technology
- Division & Inequalities: Race & Ethnicity, Class & Religion
- Sociology @ work
Department of Politics
- State, Economy and Society
- War and Peace
- Politics in the United Kingdom
- The United States and Global Politics after the Cold War
- Critical Global Security Studies
- Global Political Economy
- The Politics of Gender
Department of Social Policy
- Community Development and Social Change
- Understanding Childhood and Youth
- Social Inequalities
- The Policy Process
- Comparative Social Policy
- Victimisation and Social Harm
- Debates in Criminal Justice
Year 3
Department of Sociology
- Paranormal in Society
- Advanced Social Theory
- Humans and Other Animals
- Body & Society
- Imagining Sociological Alternatives
- Crime, Gender & Sexuality
- The Global Transformation of Health
- The Racial State
- Morbidity, Culture and Corpses
- Emotions in a Social World
- Cinema, Cities and Historical Sociology
- Performance and Society
- Sociology of the Future
Department of Politics
- Governing the Global Economy
- Political Participation and Democracy
- Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- Green Politics
- The Labour Party and Socialism
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power
- Contemporary Politics of South Asia
- Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict
- Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
- Health and World Politics
- Britain in a Changing Global Economic Order
- Ethics and International Politics
- The Politics of (Post-) Colonialism
- Development Paradigms
Department of Social Policy
- Poverty and Inequality
- Love, Intimacy and Family Policy
- Welfare States and Economic Crises
- Crime and Punishment (Law module)
- Prisons and Penal Policy
- Vulnerability, Deviance and Social Control
- Illicit Drug Use
- Education Policy: Divisions and Inequalities
- Sex Work: Lived Experiences, Policies and Perspectives
- Migration, Immigration and Social Policy
- Criminal Justice and Policing
