Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology Modules 2022/3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| PHL1008 | Philosophical Reading 2 | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1009 | Philosophies of Art | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1010 | Introduction to Asian Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL1013 | Philosophy of Morality | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL1016 | Introduction to Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence | 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 | 1 | |
| POL1025 | Classical Political Thought | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1026 | Early Modern Political Thought | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1028 | Introduction to Strategic Studies | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1029 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1045 | International Politics of the Global South | 15 | 2 | |
| POL1046 | The State of the UK: Identifying Marginalised Identities and Addressing Inequalities | 15 | 1 | |
| POL1047 | Global Sustainability Governance and Policy | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC1028 | Media and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC1039 | Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC1045 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 15 | 2 |
Stage Two Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT2009 | Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2014 | Cultures: Food | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2016 | Anthropology of the State | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2017 | Anthropology of Islam | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2021 | Anthropology of the Middle East | 15 | 2 | |
| 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 | 2 | |
| ANT2097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2107 | Culture and Wellbeing | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2109 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2110 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT2114 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2115 | Emotions, the Body and the Social | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2116 | Animals and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT2117 | Dogs and Cats: Anthropological Subjects | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2001 | Phenomenology | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2010A | Philosophy of Mind 1 | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2015 | Body and Mind | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2016 | Metaphysics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2018 | Philosophy of Language | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2020 | Virtues and Vices | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2026 | Philosophy of Science | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2038 | The Self | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2040 | Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2041 | Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2042 | Philosophical Frontiers | 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 | 1 | |
| 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 | |
| PHL2117 | Philosophy and Psychedelics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL2118 | Moral agency in social context | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL2119 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| POL2020 | Contemporary Theories of World Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2026 | Political Analysis: Behaviour, Institutions, Ideas | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2027 | The Politics of the World Economy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2046 | The Economics of Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2047 | American Politics | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2050 | Political Philosophy | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2057 | Security Studies | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2059 | Political Thought of Modernity | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2076 | Rising Powers, Peace and Conflict | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2079 | Contemporary Public Debate in an Age of 'Anti-Politics' | 15 | 1 | |
| 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 | |
| POL2104 | Party Politics and Democracy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2106 | America in the World | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2112 | Politics and Its Discontents | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2113 | Parliamentary Studies | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2114 | Issues in Modern British Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2115 | British Foreign Policy | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2116 | Political Economy of Armed Conflicts | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2121 | Politics and Conflict in Deeply Divided Societies | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2122 | The Politics and Policies of Youth Engagement | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2123 | The Idea of Human Rights | 15 | 1 | |
| POL2124 | The Politics of the Body | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2126 | Environmental policy in times of crisis | 15 | 2 | |
| POL2127 | Electoral Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2005 | Theoretical Sociology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC2009 | Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2030 | Sociology of Art and Culture | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2034 | Gender and Society 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2035 | International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2036 | International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2037 | Pharmaceutical Cultures | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2038 | On Violence | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2039 | Sociology of Family and Gender | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2068 | Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2087 | Disability and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2105 | Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2110 | Consumption and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2115 | Deception | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2116 | Sociology and Demography of Religion | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2121 | Cybercrime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2122 | Digital Society | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2124 | Surveillance, Security and the State | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2131 | Social Media, Disinformation and Authoritarianism | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC2134 | Emotions, the Body and the Social | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC2135 | Forensic Cultures | 15 | 2 |
Stage Three Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT3004 | Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3014 | Cultures: Food | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3016 | Anthropology of the State | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3017 | Anthropology of Islam | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3021 | Anthropology of the Middle East | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3023 | Theory and Methods of Food Preservation | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3024 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 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 | 2 | |
| ANT3096 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| ANT3099 | Animals and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| ANT3100 | Dogs and Cats: Anthropological subjects | 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 | 1 | |
| PHL3061 | Philosophy of Law | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3077 | Bioethics: DNA-technologies, Ethics and Human Identity | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3078 | Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3079 | Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3080 | Philosophical Frontiers | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3096 | Cyborg Studies | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3111 | The Deep Past, History and Humanity | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3113 | Practical Ethics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHL3117 | Philosophy and Psychedelics | 15 | 2 | |
| PHL3118 | Animal Minds and Animal Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| POL3000 | Deadly Words: The Language of Political Violence | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3040 | Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3051 | The Media in Europe | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3054 | Nuclear Weapons in International Relations | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3069 | Globalisation and the Politics of Resistance | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3124 | Anarchism and World Ordering | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3132 | Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State? | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3136 | Political Psychology | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3156 | Central Asian Politics | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3168 | War and its Aftermath: Interventions and Contemporary Conflict | 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 | |
| POL3193 | Women in the Criminal Justice System: Law, Policy and Institutions | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3194 | Rethinking the Politics of Communities | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3202 | China in World Affairs | 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 | |
| POL3231 | Research Experience | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3242 | Political Representation UK-Style | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3247 | Politics of Biology | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3248 | Marxism(s) and International Relations | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3257 | Understanding Terrorism and Counterterrorism | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3258 | The Politics of Humour | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3259 | Climate Justice | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3264 | International Relations in Global History | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3267 | Misinformation, Misperceptions and Conspiracy Theories | 15 | 1 | |
| POL3277 | Developments in British Politics: Institutions and Behaviour | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3280 | Recognition in World Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3281 | Trumping the Mainstream: The Populist Radical Right and Democratic Politics | 15 | 2 | |
| POL3282 | World Orders: Past, Present and Future | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3283 | Hope and Politics | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| POL3288 | Political Science and the Real World | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC3002 | On Violence | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3013 | Gender and Society 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3030 | Sociology of Art and Culture | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3035 | Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3036 | International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3040 | Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| SOC3080 | Pharmaceutical Cultures | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3087 | Disability and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3097 | Environment and Society | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3107 | Culture and Wellbeing | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3109 | Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3110 | Consumption and Society | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3115 | Deception | 15 | 2 | |
| SOC3118 | Sociology and Demography of Religion | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3129 | Cybercrime | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3130 | Digital Society | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3132 | Surveillance, Security and the State | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3139 | Social Media, Disinformation and Authoritarianism | 15 | 1 | |
| SOC3141 | The Anthropology of Prisons | 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 | 1 and 2 | |
| PHLM012 | Data Governance and Ethics | 30 | 1 and 2 | |
| PHLM013 | Philosophy and Psychedelics | 15 | 1 | |
| PHLM014 | Philosophy and Psychedelics | 30 | 1 | |
| PHLM015 | Contemporary Ethics | 15 | 2 | |
| POLM013M | MPA Dissertation | 60 | 2 and 3 | |
| POLM014M | MPA Applied Studies | 60 | 1, 2 and 3 | |
| POLM016 | Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks and Ethical Consumption | 15 | 2 | |
| POLM030 | Mathematics and Programming Skills for Policy Analytics | 15 | 1 | |
| POLM057 | Understanding and Interpretation in Political Thought | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM063 | Qualitative Methods in Social Research | 15 | 2 | |
| POLM082 | International Relations of the Middle East | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM084 | Conflict, Security and Development in World Politics | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM085 | Work Placement in Conflict, Security and Development | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM140 | Qualitative Methods in Social Research | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM148 | Brexit: Causes, Interpretation and Implications | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM156 | The Transformation of Politics in the Global Age | 30 | 2 | |
| 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 | 2 | |
| POLM174 | Tools, Policy and Practice of International Development | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM175 | Systemic Intervention | 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 | |
| POLM227M | Behavioural Public Policy and Administration | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM228M | Leadership, Equality and Diversity | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM231 | State Crime | 30 | 1 | |
| POLM233 | Applied Strategy in the Contemporary World | 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 | 2 | |
| POLM803 | Sources in Modernity and Post-Modernity | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM806 | Problems and Texts in Social and Political Thought | 15 | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| POLM893DA | Equality, Diversity and Leadership | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM894DA | Systemic Intervention | 30 | 2 | |
| POLM896DA | Work-Based Project 2 | 30 | 3 | |
| 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 | 1 and 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 | |
| SOCM904 | Dissertation | 60 | 3 |