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MA Social and Political Thought – (M.A.)
University of Leeds
Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law
| Location: | Leeds / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Leeds
The Institute is being established in honour of Leeds's Emeritus Professor, Zygmunt Bauman, whose writings on modernity, postmodernity and globalization are celebrated internationally.
This programme will provide you with an advanced grounding in social and political theory, with modules in Contemporary Social Thought, Critical Theory, Liquid Sociology and an extended Dissertation that will allow you the opportunity to evaluate critically and creatively social and political realities at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
It will also encourage you to acquire those core skills that are relevant to a career in academic research or for professional employment in a postgraduate capacity.
Contents
MA Social and Political Thought is available on a 12-month full-time or 24-month part-time basis. The course has five modules: three compulsory, two elective.
Compulsory Modules
In Contemporary Social Thought, you will gain an advanced grounding in social and political theory and survey a number of theoretical approaches, including classical sociology, interpretivism, Western Marxism, psychoanalytic social theory, post-structuralism / postmodernism, globalization and cosmopolitanism.
The aim of this core module is to give an in-depth appreciation of concepts, information and techniques essential to exploring the practical application of key ideas and concepts to the analysis of contemporary societies.
Critical Theory introduces students to issues resurfacing in contemporary Western social and political thought. After a brief reminder of the influential theories and works of Karl Marx, the module investigates the critically radical theories of contemporary society promulgated by the so-called Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Marcuse and Habermas).
Later, these critical theories are developed via the works of Benhabib, Butler and Fraser in order to provide an evaluative platform upon which critical theory can be situated and judged in terms of its relevance to social relations in the 21st Century.
Social and Political Thought Dissertation allows you to tailor your own programme of training and research under the supervision of a relevant academic member of staff from the School.
Elective Modules
In addition to the compulsory modules, you also choose two modules from the following list.
* Research Strategy and Design
* Qualitative Research Methods
* Race, Gender and Migration
* Fundamental Issues in Sociological Research
* Globalization and International Social Change
* Liquid Sociology
* Evaluation Research
* From Conception to the Grave: Health in a Global Context
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A good honours degree in a social science discipline.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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