Modules: MA Human Rights
Students complete six taught modules from a combination of three compulsory core and three elective options. Students also take part in a dissertation workshop and produce a dissertation over the summer period.
Core Modules – compulsory
Human Wrongs (SGM106)
Approaches to social research (SGM222)
Human Rights and Social Theory (SGM244)
Sociology Dissertation (SGM111)
Elective Modules – choose three from this list
Globalisation: challenges and transformations (SGM101)
Communities and Social Action (SGM102)
Rights, multiculturalism and citizenship (SGM109)
Media and human rights (SGM224)
Theories of Race and Ethnicity (SGM229)
Crime, Justice & Security (SGM232)
Global migration (SGM233)
International Human Rights Law (SGM234)
Media, Violence and culture (SGM235)
Global Insecurity (SGM236)
Surveillance studies: theories and concepts (SGM237)
Feminisms and the media: representation, technology and change (SGM239)
Victimology (SGM240)
Global Politics of Human Rights (SGM242)
International Politics Modules
Global conflict and security (IPM004)
NGOs, human rights and the UN system (IPM006)
International organisations in global politics (IPM005)
Theories of international politics (IPM008)
Development and international politics (IPM009)
Political Islam in global politics (IPM010)
Political Economy of Global Finance (IPM012)
The Politics of Forced Displacement and Resettlement (IPM013)
NB. Elective modules choices are subject to availability and timetabling constraints.
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