| Module/Unit |
Calendar Type |
Credits |
| SPR112 Comparative Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR113 Gender Politics |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR114 British Politics |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR115 Global Political Economy |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR116 Planet Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR117 World Politics |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR121 Political Analysis 1: An Introduction to Research and Scholarship |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR122 Thinking Politically: Key Concepts |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR123 Western Political Thought |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR125 Doing Social Research |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR126 Theories of Society |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR127 Social divisions and inequalities: causes, patterns and change |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR128 Understanding and challenging inequality: Sociological and policy debate |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR130 Introduction to Social Theory |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR131 Sociology of hope, community and social justice |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR132 Race and Racism in World Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR133 Introduction to Media and Communication |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR201 Contemporary Security Challenges |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR202 Political Analysis 2: How to do empirical research |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR203 The Political Economy of Global Capitalism |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR204 Africa in the World |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR205 Tackling the World's Wicked Problems: theoretical tools and applications |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR206 The Making of The Modern Middle East |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR209 The Sociology of Crime |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR210 Men, Feminism and Gender relations |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR211 Sociology of Media and Consumer Culture |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR212 Solidarity: Politics, Law, and Society across the Globe |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR213 Sociology of the Body |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR214 In Sickness and in Health: The Sociology of Medicine |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR215 Migration and World Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR216 Political Theory in Practice |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR217 Europe in Crisis |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR218 Oppression and Resistance |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR219 The Left: Past, Present and Future |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR220 Chinese Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR222 Crime, Justice and Social Policy |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR224 Dynamics of Social Change and Policy |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR225 Understanding 'Race' and Migration |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR226 Social Problems: Policy and Practice |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR227 Social Research Design and Methods |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR229 Sociology of Family: Continuity and Change |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR230 Autocracies and Democracies |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR301 Political Analysis 3: Independent Research Through a Dissertation |
Academic year |
40 |
| SPR306 Parliamentary Studies |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR307 Party Politics: Competition, Strategies and Campaigns |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR310 Terrorism, Violence and the State |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR311 Political Psychology: The Personal Side of Politics |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR312 Gender Politics in the Arab World |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR314 Global Politics of Forced Migration |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR315 Conflict, Violence and Security in Africa |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR319 Queer Identities in the Media |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR321 Algorithms, AI and Society |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR322 Digital Marketing and Consumer Culture |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR324 Global Data Industries |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR325 Policy Change: Theory and Practice |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR326 Animals, Ethics and Politics |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR329 Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR330 Narcopolitics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR331 The Ethics of Political Leadership |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR332 Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR333 Britain in a New Age of Crisis |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR335 Global Culture Wars |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR336 Understanding Elections |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR338 Digital Health |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR340 Organised Crime and Illicit Markets |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR342 Research Project 1 |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR343 Research Project 2 |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR344 War, Peace and Justice |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR345 Corporations in Global Politics: Possibilities, Tensions, and Ambiguities |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR346 Cosmopolitanism |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR347 Digital Identities |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR348 Protest, Movements and Social Change |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR349 Sociology of Evil |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR351 What it means to be human |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR354 Reimagining Care: Families, Services and Policies |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR355 Pandemics and Panics: Health, Security and Global Politics |
Autumn Semester |
20 |
| SPR356 Sociological Futures: Creating change beyond the academy |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR357 The Politics of Security |
Spring Semester |
20 |
| SPR401 Academic Skills and Literacy |
Graduate Year |
0 |
| SPR405 Analysing the Policy Process |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR406 Approaches to Political Economy |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR407 Contemporary Global Security |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR408 Democratic Governance in the 21st Century: Problems, Innovations and Solutions |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR410 Policy-Making in the Real World |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR411 Political Economy of Global Environmental change |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR412 Politics Dissertation |
Graduate Year |
60 |
| SPR414 MA in Sociology Dissertation |
Graduate Year |
60 |
| SPR415 Dissertation in Digital Media and Society |
Academic year |
60 |
| SPR418 Creative media and communications |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR419 Research and Dissertation Preparation |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR420 Understanding Politics |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR421 Perspectives on Digital Society |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR422 Digital Media in a Datafied Society |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR423 Digital Cultures and Visual Methods |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR424 Researching Society |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR425 Mobile Media and Digital Futures |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR427 Sociology of Genders, Sexualities and the Bodies |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR432 Digital Health |
Spring Semester |
15 |
| SPR433 Platforms, Identities, Algorithms |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR434 Digital Methods |
Autumn Semester |
15 |
| SPR448 Capitalism and Crisis |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR449 Development and the State |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR450 Freedom |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR451 Terrorism and Political Violence |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR452 The Governance and Politics of the European Union |
Spring Semester |
30 |
| SPR453 Debating International Relations |
Autumn Semester |
30 |
| SPR601 Doctoral Training in Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relation |
Graduate Year |
0 |