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What does it mean for a mind to be healthy or unhealthy? Are mental disorders just like physical disorders? What is it like to be mentally ill – or to be told that you are mentally ill? What do our conceptions of mental health tell us about ourselves...

This course enables students to engage deeply with a broad range of feminist thought. We will first focus on feminist critiques of social/political institutions, then on feminist prescriptions, and finally look at the means feminists have suggested f...

A multi-disciplinary survey of key methodological approaches and methods employed by social science researchers. The course includes critical discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of qualitative and quantitative approaches, ethics and the pract...

This course will examine the major influences on and developments in feminist theory and gender and sexuality studies up to the present day. Among the topics considered are: gender and sexual difference and diversity, sexual politics and sexuality, t...

This course explores the purposes and processes of, and debates around, social and cultural theorizing. Students will learn about conceptualization and about scholarly discussion of description, explanation, classification, evaluation in social and c...

This course reviews social and cultural research methods and analytical practices. Social and Cultural Studies staff members will draw on their disciplinary backgrounds to share a variety of methodologies and experiences of working with diverse commu...

Approved and supervised voluntary work placement of the student in a public sector agency, private sector establishment, or non-governmental organisation with a focus on any of research, policy or service provision issues.

SOSC 102 introduces students to sociology in action. Lectures cover a number of broad issues treated by the discipline: theorising, collecting and analysing data, ethics, structures and institutions, social divisions, everyday life, and social change...

This course provides an introduction to the foundations of sociological thought and their application and relevance to contemporary society. It explores key sociological concepts and debates, such as inequality, social movements, ideology, colonisati...

Calls for social transformation to respond to the climate crisis are now common. But how might such a transformation be brought about? This course will introduce social scientific perspectives on the climate crisis, with a focus on questions of agenc...

The course introduces students to sociological approaches to health, illness, medicine and health care. A diversity of topics will be covered including health inequalities, health policy, health professions, the organisation of health care delivery, ...

Avery Gordon describes a haunting as ‘instances when home becomes unfamiliar, when your bearings on the world lose direction’. This course examines the haunted nature of classical sociology. First by interrogating colonial knowledge systems underpinn...

This course familiarises students with social theories of violence and security in various contexts, paying particular attention to the gendered dynamics of violence. We consider topics such as state violence, torture, terrorism, sexual violence, vio...

This course both empowers students to ask how systems and structures of power manifest through social organisation and to conscientiously engage in the world with a view towards transformation. Drawing from local and global critical theory and action...

This course introduces students to key ideas, debates, and contemporary issues in the sociology of knowledge. It examines the role of ideas, values, and beliefs in social life, and considers the sociological conditions that underpin the production of...

Calls for social transformation to respond to the climate crisis are now common. But how might such a transformation be brought about? This course will introduce social scientific perspectives on the climate crisis, with a focus on questions of agenc...

This course examines knowledge, power, and the importance of critical self-reflection as it relates to liberation and democracy. Students will learn to use a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues as they relat...

Social movements and collective action drive social and political change, and reduce inequalities in society. This course will consider both historic and contemporary social movements and resistance. Various theoretical approaches to the study of col...

Inequality and its effects has been a major concern for the discipline of Sociology, from the classical period until the present. This course explores some of the most important sociological work that has devoted itself to conceptualizing, measuring,...

In this course students will choose and conduct an independent research project and write an extended essay. They will receive individual supervision from a staff member, and also work as a group learning foundational research skills, such as formula...

MA thesis in Sociology.

PhD course.

This course engages with critical theories of social inequality and the approaches that can be taken to address inequalities, locally and internationally. The course equips students with the conceptual tools necessary for understanding inequalities a...

This course draws on a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues related to social policy. Course content includes an exploration of ideas such as intersectionality, power, knowledge, race and ethnicity, gender an...

In this course students will choose and conduct an independent research project and write an extended essay. They will receive individual supervision from a staff member, and also work as a group learning foundational research skills, such as formula...