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School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies units in 2015/16

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Teaching Block
A Sociology of Crime and Justice SOCI30047 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Advanced Qualitative Research SOCIM3132 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Social and Policy Research UNIVM0003 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Advanced Quantitative Research SOCIM3133 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Advanced Quantitative Research project SPAIM0039 40 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Approaches to the study of Political Science POLI11104 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Art and Society SOCI30087 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Belief in Contemporary Society SPAI30030 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Britain and the European Union POLI31565 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Care, Labour and Gender SPAIM0010 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
China's International Relations SPAIM0020 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Class and Social Divisions SOCI20045 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Classics of Modern Cultural Theory SPAIM0035 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Climate Change and International Security POLIM0004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Co-operation and Integration In Europe POLI21214 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Comparative European Politics POLIM3026 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction POLI11103 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
Conceptual Issues in Security, Conflict, and Justice SPOLM0019 15 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Conceptualising the Social SOCI20016 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Conducting a Research Project using secondary data SPAI20014 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Conflict, Security and Development POLIM1007 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1,TB-2
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Debates and Issues POLI30001 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Contemporary International Relations SPAI20004 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Contemporary Political Theory POLI22202 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Contemporary Sociological Theory SOCIM3101 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Critical Security Studies POLI31384 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Cultural Representation SOCI30063 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Democracy and US Government POLI21226 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Democracy, Dictatorship and Post-Communism POLI31383 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Development Studies POLI21213 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Dilemmas of a nuclear-armed world SPAI30029 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Discourse Analysis: Research Methods for Politics and International Relations POLIM3024 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Dissertation POLIM1001 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation POLI31555 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation CEASM0015 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation SOCIM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation SOCI30050 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation (SWDTC) SPOLM0037 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation (SWDTC) SPAIM0028 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation (with Quantitative Research Methods) (Politics) SPAI30013 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation (with Quantitative Research Methods) (Sociology) SPAI30014 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Doing Social Research SOCI10005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
East Asia and Global Development SPAIM0002 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
East Asia, Europe and Global Integration SPAIM0006 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
East Asian Societies SPAI30024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Emotions in Contemporary Society - 3rd year SPAI30005 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Empire POLI30004 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Environment and Society SOCI30049 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Environmental Politics POLIM2041 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Ethnicity and Racism SOCI20017 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Europe in Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives SPAI30021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
European Foreign Policy SPAI30022 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
European Security SPAIM0040 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Faith and Development POLIM0003 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Feminisms and International Relations POLIM3013 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Feminist Politics SOCI30064 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Foreign Policy Analysis POLIM3017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Gender and Development POLIM2032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Gender and Migration SOCI30091 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Gender, Masculinity/ies and International Relations POLIM3016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Global Civil Society SPAIM0019 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Global Justice POLIM0005 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Global Society SOCI20037 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Global Transitions: Power, Hegemony, and the Ordering of the Global Political Economy SPAIM0044 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Global transformations: Issues and Trajectories SPAIM0015 15 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Goffman, the Self and Interaction SOCI20032 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
India: An Emerging Power SPAIM0034 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
International Development Organisations POLIM2048 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
International Organisations and Global Governance SPAI20017 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
International Political Economy POLIM3015 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
International Political Economy SPAI10005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
International Security POLIM3012 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Interpreting Gender SOCIM3103 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Intimacy, Families and Personal Life SPAI20022 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Intimacy, Families and Personal Life SPAI30027 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences SPAIM0031 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences SPAIM0029 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Introduction to the Sociology of Culture SPAI10003 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Investigating the Social SPAI20021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Issues in World Politics SPAI10004 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Justice between generations SPAI30016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Key Social Thinkers SOCI10006 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
Managing and Evaluating Development POLIM2036 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Media / Culture / Society SOCI20038 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Militarisation, Militarism and War POLIM3022 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
NGO Development & Practice SPAI20026 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Nations and Nationalism SOCI30082 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
New Labour and After SPAI30019 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Pathway Unit: Supervised Individual Study POLIM1009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Perspectives on Power SOCI30062 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Philosophy and Research Design in the Social Sciences SPAIM0030 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Philosophy of Social Science SOCIM3125 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Political Concepts POLI11101 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Political Protest in the US and UK SPAI30020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Political Violence SPAI30017 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Politics and Policy-Making in the UK POLI21222 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Politics of Contemporary India POLI31563 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Politics of South Asia POLI29003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Politics of the Environment POLI31556 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Popular Culture and World Politics POLI31378 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Popular Music and Society SOCIM3135 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Post-Modern Political Theories POLI31367 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Power Politics and International Relations of East Asia POLI29008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Principles of Quantitative Social Science SPAI20013 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Public Opinion and Democracy SPAI30008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Rational Choice POLI21203 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Religion and Politics in the West SPAIM0023 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Religion and Politics in the West SPAI30010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Russian Politics SPAI20025 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Science, Technology and Social Values SPAI30015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Security Governance POLIM1006 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Small Business Development POLIM2030 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Social Identities and Divisions SOCI10007 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Sociology in a Global Context SPAI10002 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Sociology of Health and Illness SOCI20035 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Sociology of Health and Illness SOCI30059 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
States and Markets POLI31559 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Study Abroad A SPAI20007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Study Abroad B SPAI20008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Study Abroad C SPAI20009 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Study Abroad D SPAI20010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Study Abroad E SPAI20011 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Study Abroad F SPAI20012 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Supervised Individual Study SPAIM0038 10 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Supervised Individual Study SOCIM2129 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
The Contemporary British Parliament POLI31336 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The European Union: Theory and Institutions POLIM3027 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Fall of Old Labour POLI31371 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Feminist Politics of Food SPAI30031 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
The History of Political Thought POLI29004 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Military in Everyday Life POLI31382 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Political Economy of China SPAI30023 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Politics of Insecurity SPAIM0042 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Politics of Post Apartheid South Africa POLI31381 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa POLI21231 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Sociology of Everyday Life SPAI30025 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Sociology of Everyday Life SPAI20019 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Sociology of Gender SPAI20005 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Sociology of Popular Music SOCI30048 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Theory and Politics of Multiculturalism SOCIM3026 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Theoretical Approaches in Security Studies POLIM3036 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Theories of Development POLIM3018 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Theories of Ethnicity and Racism SOCIM3107 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Theories of International Relations SPAI10006 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Theories of International Relations POLIM3014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Theories of Violence SPAIM0036 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Theory and Politics of Multiculturalism SPAI30003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Thinking Sociologically SOCI10004 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
US Foreign Policy SPAI30002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Understanding Culture SPAIM0041 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Understanding Genocide SPAI30018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Understanding Popular Culture in/and World Politics POLIM0002 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Understanding Risk SPAIM0024 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (L301) SOCI25000 120 Intermediate/5 Not open AYEAR

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