Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology Modules 2024/5
Please note, details for interdisciplinary modules within the HASS faculty can be found here.Stage One Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT1000 | Introduction to Social Anthropology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| ANT1013 | Traditions of Anthropological Inquiry | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| PHL1002A | Knowledge and Reality 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1002B | Knowledge and Reality 2 | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1004 | Philosophical Problems 1 | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1005A | Evidence and Argument 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1006 | Introduction to Philosophical Analysis | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1007 | Philosophical Reading 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1009 | Philosophies of Art | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1010 | Introduction to Asian Philosophy | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1013 | Philosophy of Morality | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1112 | Philosophy of Film | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1000 | Critical Skills for Politics and International Relations | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1017 | Globalisation of World Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1018 | The Challenges of World Politics in the Twenty-First Century | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1019 | Power and Democracy | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1020 | Politics in Europe | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1025 | Classical Political Thought | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1026 | Early Modern Political Thought | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1029 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1045 | International Politics of the Global South | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1047 | Global Sustainability Governance and Policy | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC1000 | Contemporary Society: Themes, Perspectives and Case Studies | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC1001 | Social Analysis | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC1028 | Media and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC1039 | Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC1045 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC1053 | Imagining Social Worlds: Social Research Methods | 15 | 2 | |
| SPA1000 | Imagining Social Worlds | 30 | 1 and 2 |
Stage Two Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT2000 | Current Debates in Anthropology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| ANT2009 | Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2014 | Cultures: Food | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2016 | Anthropology of the State | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2017 | Anthropology of Islam | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2021 | Anthropology of the Middle East | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2023 | Theory and Methods of Food Preservation | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2041 | How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2042 | Gardening, Wellbeing and Community | 15 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| ANT2089 | Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2090 | Sound and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2107 | Culture and Wellbeing | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2109 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2110 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2114 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2115 | Emotions, the Body and the Social | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2116 | Animals and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2118 | Anthropology of Contemporary Britain | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2119 | Social movements and collective action | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2002 | Existentialism | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2010A | Philosophy of Mind 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2015 | Body and Mind | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2016 | Metaphysics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2018 | Philosophy of Language | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2020 | Virtues and Vices | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2021 | Symbolic Logic | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2026 | Philosophy of Science | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2038 | The Self | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2040 | Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2041 | Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2042 | Philosophical Frontiers | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2043 | Philosophical Research | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2045 | Aesthetics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2052 | Epistemology | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2053 | History of Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2054 | Philosophy of Psychiatry | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2056 | The Nature of Normativity | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2061 | Philosophy of Law | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2096 | Cyborg Studies | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2111 | The Deep Past, History and Humanity | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2112 | Practical Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2114 | Aristotle's Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2118 | Moral agency in social context | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2119 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2120 | Philosophy and Sociology of Race | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2123 | Philosophy of Medicine | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2125 | Ethics of Emerging Technologies | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2126 | Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2127 | Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2130 | Plato's Dialogues | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2020 | Contemporary Theories of World Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2026 | Political Analysis: Behaviour, Institutions, Ideas | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2027 | The Politics of the World Economy | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2046 | The Economics of Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2047 | American Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2050 | Political Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2057 | Security Studies | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2059 | Political Thought of Modernity | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2076 | Rising Powers, Peace and Conflict | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2079 | Contemporary Public Debate in an Age of 'Anti-Politics' | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2081 | Thinking about Race: Perspectives from the Biological and Social Sciences | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2082 | Changing Character of Warfare | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2098 | What is Law? Jurisprudence from Stone Tablet to Brain Imaging | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2102 | Explaining Public Policies | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2106 | America in the World | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2107 | Gender and Comparative Public Policy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2112 | Politics and Its Discontents | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2115 | British Foreign Policy | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2116 | Political Economy of Armed Conflicts | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2117 | Great Power Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2124 | The Politics of the Body | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2128 | Introduction to Research Design in Politics and International Relations | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2130 | Comparative Electoral Systems | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2131 | Environmental Governance | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2132 | Decolonising Global Justice | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2164 | The Politics of Humanitarian Emergencies | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2165 | Foreign Policy Analysis | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2005 | Theoretical Sociology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC2024 | Power and Domination | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2025 | Current Themes in the Sociology of Sport | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2034 | Gender and Society 1 | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2035 | International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2036 | International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2039 | Sociology of Family and Gender | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2068 | Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2115 | Deception | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2134 | Emotions, the Body and the Social | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2135 | Forensic Cultures | 15 | 2 | |
| SPA2000 | Knowing the Social World | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SPA2008 | Cities under Siege: urban warfare, past, present and future | 15 | 1 | |
| SPA2009 | Data Science in Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SPA2011 | Ageing, Society and Health | 15 | 1 | |
| SPA2014 | Environments in the Public Sphere | 15 | 1 |
Stage Three Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT3004 | Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3014 | Cultures: Food | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3016 | Anthropology of the State | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3017 | Anthropology of Islam | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3021 | Anthropology of the Middle East | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3023 | Theory and Methods of Food Preservation | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3024 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3025 | Social Movements and Collective Action | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3040 | Anthropology Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| ANT3053 | How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3054 | Gardening, Wellbeing and Community | 15 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| ANT3089 | Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3090 | Sound and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3096 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3099 | Animals and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3002 | Existentialism | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3013 | Virtues and Vices | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3014 | Symbolic Logic | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3026 | Philosophy of Science | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3038 | The Self | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3040 | Philosophy Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| PHL3045 | Aesthetics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3052 | Epistemology | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3053 | History of Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3054 | Philosophy of Psychiatry | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3056 | The Nature of Normativity | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3061 | Philosophy of Law | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3078 | Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3079 | Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3080 | Philosophical Frontiers | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3096 | Cyborg Studies | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3111 | The Deep Past, History and Humanity | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3113 | Practical Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3114 | Aristotle's Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3118 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3119 | Philosophy and Sociology of Race | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3122 | Philosophy of Medicine | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3124 | Ethics of Emerging Technologies | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3125 | Mind and World in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3126 | Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3127 | Plato's Dialogues | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3129 | The Philosophy of Nature | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3040 | Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3051 | The Media in Europe | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3054 | Nuclear Weapons in International Relations | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3090 | Politics and Conflict in Deeply Divided Societies | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3120 | War and Public Opinion | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3136 | Political Psychology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3174 | International Security and US Foreign Policy | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3180 | Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3194 | Rethinking the Politics of Communities | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3196 | Democracy in the European Union | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3206 | The Political Economy of the State | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3217 | Feminist Political Theory | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3226 | Money, Lobbying and Policymaking | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3227 | Politics, Elections and the State in Africa | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3247 | Politics of Biology | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3250 | Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3257 | Understanding Terrorism and Counterterrorism | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3260 | Russian Foreign Policy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3264 | International Relations in Global History | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3267 | Misinformation, Misperceptions and Conspiracy Theories | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3281 | Trumping the Mainstream: The Populist Radical Right and Democratic Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3282 | World Orders: Past, Present and Future | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3284 | Realism and Its Critics: Debating and Applying International Relations Theory | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3291 | Disrupting Western and Neo-Liberal Policing of the Global and the Local | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3292 | LGBTQ+ Policies and Politics in the UK | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3293 | The Political Economy of Chinese Development | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3294 | Land, Power and Politics: a critical problem-based approach | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3296 | Political Economy of Populism | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3297 | Comparative Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3300 | Securitisation of Migration | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3303 | Protest, Activism and the Environment | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3304 | Political Philosophies of Power | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3305 | War, culture and society | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3306 | Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy and Foreign Policy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3308 | Anarchist World Ordering | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3309 | Politics Online | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3310 | War in the 21st Century | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3311 | Brexit: Causes, Interpretation and Implications | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3312 | The Transformation of Politics in the Global Age | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3313 | War and its Aftermath | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3314 | Gender, War, and Militarism | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3315 | International Organisation | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3316 | Empire and Hierarchy in Russia and Eurasia | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3013 | Gender and Society 1 | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3036 | International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3040 | Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC3097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3107 | Culture and Wellbeing | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3115 | Deception | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3141 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3147 | Power and Domination | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3148 | Current Themes in the Sociology of Sport | 15 | 1 | |
| SPA3004 | Cities under Siege: urban warfare, past, present and future | 15 | 1 | |
| SPA3009 | Data Science in Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SPA3011 | Ageing, Society and Health | 15 | 1 | |
| SPA3014 | Environments in the Public Sphere | 15 | 1 |
Masters Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTM003 | Theory and Methods of Food Preservation | 15 | 1 | |
| ANTM006 | Gardening, Wellbeing and Community | 15 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| ANTM021 | Food, Body and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANTM100 | The Animal Mirror: Representations of Animality | 15 | 3 | |
| ANTM101 | Animals, Health and Healing | 15 | 2 | |
| ANTM102 | Anthrozoology: Theory and Method | 30 | 1 | |
| ANTM103 | Applied Anthrozoology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| ANTM105 | Humans and Wildlife: Conflict and Conservation | 15 | 3 | |
| ANTM107 | Anthrozoology Residential | 15 | 3 | |
| ANTM109 | Animal Criminology | 15 | 2 | |
| ANTM111 | Animal Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| ANTM112 | Animals and Religion | 15 | 2 | |
| ANTM904 | Dissertation | 60 | 3 | |
| PHLM006 | Contemporary Ethics | 30 | 2 | |
| PHLM007 | Current Issues in Mind and Cognition | 30 | 1 | |
| PHLM008 | Mind, Body and World | 30 | 2 | |
| PHLM009 | Dissertation | 60 | 3 | |
| PHLM010 | Introduction to Philosophical Methods | 30 | 1 | |
| PHLM011 | Data Governance and Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHLM012 | Data Governance and Ethics | 30 | 2 | |
| PHLM015 | Contemporary Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| POLM013M | MPA Dissertation | 60 | 2 | |
| POLM014M | MPA Applied Studies | 60 | 1 and 2 | |
| POLM016 | Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks and Ethical Consumption | 15 | 1 | |
| POLM022 | Challenges and Opportunities in Global Security | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM023 | Capstone in Global Security Studies | 30 | 2 and 3 | |
| POLM063 | Qualitative Methods in Social Research | 15 | 1 | |
| POLM082 | International Relations of the Middle East | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM084 | Conflict, Security and Development in World Politics | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM085 | Work Placement in Conflict, Security and Development | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POLM088 | State-building after Civil War | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM140 | Qualitative Methods in Social Research | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM144 | The West, Civilisations and World Order | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM148 | Brexit: Causes, Interpretation and Implications | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM156 | The Transformation of Politics in the Global Age | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM158 | Digital Politics and Policy | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM167 | Global Governance: Institutions and Challenges | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM168 | From Oppression to Resistance: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class and Gender | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM173 | Theories of International Development | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM174 | Tools, Policy and Practice of International Development | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM217 | Conflict, Security and Development in Eurasia | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM220M | Management and Governance: Comparing Public Administration around the World | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM222M | The Politics, Policy and Practice of Sustainable Development | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM228M | Leadership, Equality and Diversity | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM237M | Collaborative and Participatory Governance | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM239 | International Organisation | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM307 | International Politics of the Body | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM308 | Transnational Security and Terrorism | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM341 | Omnishambles - Global Politics Simulation | 30 | 2 and 3 | |
| POLM342M | Public Accountability and Governance | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM343 | Gender, War and Militarism | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM344 | Empire and Hierarchy in Russia and Eurasia | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM502 | International Relations: Power and Institutions | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM503 | Foreign Policy Decision-Making | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM651 | State and Society in the Middle East | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM809 | Applied Quantitative Data Analysis | 15 | 1 | |
| POLM886 | Dissertation | 60 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| POLM887 | Public Policy Process | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM891DA | Introduction to Systems Thinking | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM892DA | Organisational Viability and Sustainability | 30 | 3 | |
| POLM894DA | Systemic Intervention | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM895DA | Work-Based Project 1 | 30 | 3 | |
| POLM896DA | Work-Based Project 2 | 30 | 3 | |
| POLM897 | Surveys and Experiments: Design, Implementation and Analysis | 15 | 1 | |
| SOCM002A | Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1 | 15 | 2 | |
| SOCM002B | Philosophy of the Social Sciences | 30 | 2 | |
| SOCM019 | Research Methods in the Social Sciences | 15 | 1 | |
| SOCM021 | Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks and Ethical Consumption | 30 | 2 | |
| SOCM022 | Food, Body and Society | 30 | 1 | |
| SOCM023 | Social Theory | 15 | 2 | |
| SOCM027 | Social Theory | 30 | 2 | |
| SOCM033 | Data Governance and Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| SOCM044 | Food and Sustainability: Economy, Society and Environment | 15 | 2 | |
| SOCM045 | Food and Sustainability: Economy, Society and Environment | 30 | 2 | |
| SOCM046 | Meaning, Making Consuming | 30 | 1 | |
| SOCM047 | Understanding Media | 30 | 1 | |
| SOCM049 | Magic and Ritual | 15 | 2 | |
| SOCM050 | Secrecy Studies: On Concealment, Disclosure and Revelation | 15 | 1 | |
| SOCM051 | Dissertation | 60 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| SOCM052 | Cultures and Environments of Health | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOCM053 | Making, Using and Contesting Evidence | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOCM904 | Dissertation | 60 | 3 | |
| SPAM002 | Security, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SPAM003 | Computational Social Science 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| SPAM004 | Computational Social Science 2 | 15 | 2 |