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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-26

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Sociology

Course Summary

Sociology at Manchester is one of the UK's largest and most prestigious centres for the subject, with over 30 academic staff and 60 postgraduate students forming a diverse and rigorous academic community. The MA course aims to provide those of you who have an interest in sociology, the opportunity to extend and deepen your knowledge of the discipline. Our teaching includes all areas of contemporary sociology but we have particular expertise in the fields of socio-cultural change, gender and sexuality, and consumption and sustainability. We are consistently highly ranked for research, coming first in the UK for the percentage of our research outputs that are judged as world-leading', and second nationally, based on our research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Our research feeds into all of our postgraduate teaching. The Sociology MA is the perfect course to develop your analytical and investigative skills, training you in methods of social investigation in order to equip you with the ability for independent thinking, research and analysis, setting you up perfectly for the world of employment.

Modules

The overall aim of the course is to provide the theoretical frameworks and analytical skills necessary for a thorough understanding of the nature of cultural analysis in terms of both cultural forms and the mediating texts through which they exist. This will be done through an exploration of the debates around the issues of modernity and postmodernity, the shifting role of intellectuals and cultural producers and the emergence of new forms of cultural expression. Secondly, the course will explore issues around the production of old/new concepts of identity, in communications, nations and diasporas and their relationship to the new technologies of mediated communication.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£13,700

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£26,800

Entry requirements

We require a UK bachelor's degree with a First or Upper Second classification or the overseas equivalent, in Sociology or a Social Science subject for direct entry to the MA programme. When assessing your academic record we consider your degree subject, grades you have achieved and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.