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MSc - Master of Science
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
This programme provides core teaching in the ideas and approaches of sociology as applied to understanding social order and social change globally and internationally. It explores the local impacts of global processes, and the global impacts of local processes.During this intensive programme, you will explore these processes by developing your own research agenda, both in coursework and in a supervised dissertation project of your own choice.The programme presents sociology as the study of a dynamic and globalising world, around such areas as:environment and sustainable developmentmigration, refugees and displacementthe sociology of globalisationgender, emotions, intimate and family lifeglobal financial markets, economic sociology and global capitalismsocial network analysissocial movements and global inequalitieshuman rights and citizenshipdigital and global popular cultures
