Global Opportunities

Geography, Politics and Sociology

Modules in Geography, Politics and Sociology

Please read our Module Guidance page for full information about choosing your modules. Some restrictions may apply.

Code Module Title Stage Semester Total Credits
GEO1005 Environmental Issues 1 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO1010 Interconnected World 1 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO1015 Human Geographies of the UK 1 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO1016 Human Geographies of the UK (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 1 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO1017 Human Geographies of the UK (Semester 2 for Exchange Students) 1 Semester 2
10 Credits
GEO1018 Geographical Analysis 1 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO1021 Environmental Issues (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 1 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO1022 Environmental Issues (Semester 2 for Exchange Students) 1 Semester 2
10 Credits
GEO1100 Interconnected World: Economic, Social and Political Geographies - (Semester 2 for Exchange students) 1 Semester 2
10 Credits
GEO1102 Interconnected World: Foundations of Human and Development Geographies (Semester 1 for Exchange students) 1 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO2037 Ireland Field Course 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2043 Key Methods for Human Geographers 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO2047 Political Geography 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2099 Economic Geography 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2103 Development & Globalisation 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2110 Social Geographies 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2114 Economic Geographies (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO2119 Social Geographies (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO2120 Social Geographies (Semester 2 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 2
10 Credits
GEO2121 Political Geography (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO2122 Political Geography (Semester 2 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 2
10 Credits
GEO2128 Emotional Geographies of the City: Vienna/Bratislava or UK urban field course 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2129 Development & Globalisation - (Semester 1 for Exchange Students) 2 Semester 1
10 Credits
GEO2136 Global Environmental Change 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2137 Key Methods for Physical Geographers 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO2226 Glacial Environments 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2228 Biogeography 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO2229 River Catchment Dynamics 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO2238 Placing Community Organising: Theory and Practice 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3102 Geopolitics 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO3103 Geographies of Money (Inactive) 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3114 Local and Regional Development 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3128 Polar Environments 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3130 Mapping the City 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3144 Landslides and Coasts 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO3147 Palaeoclimates 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3152 Applied Fluvial Geomorphology 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO3153 Geographies of Race and Nation 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3158 Geographies of Sustainable Production and Consumption (Inactive) 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
GEO3161 Humanitarianism and Health Inequalities 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
GEO3338 Placing Community Organising: Theory and Practice 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
POL1015 The Westminster System: the UK in comparative perspective 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL1032 Key Concepts in International Politics 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL1045 Becoming a Political Analyst 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL1046 Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL1049 Power and Inequality 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL1050 Politics of Happiness 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL1131 Studying Political Economy: Ideas, Theories and Skills 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2012 Politics of the Middle East 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2015 International Institutions: Who Governs the Globe? (Inactive) 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2016 Foreign Policy Analysis: Theories and Approaches (Inactive) 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2017 Becoming a Political Researcher 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2022 Government and Politics of the USA 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2034 The Politics and Policy of the European Union 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2035 Power and Poverty in the Global Economy 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2045 British Politics: State and Society 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2046 A Global History of Political Thought 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2082 Political Violence and the Modern State 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2088 The Politics of Africa: Africa's place in Global Politics 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2090 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Social Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL2096 Politics Work Placement 2 Semester 1
Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2110 Critical Security Studies 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2111 Democracy or Dictatorship? What are the differences and how do we analyse them (Inactive) 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2113 Sex, Gender and Power 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2114 The Politics of Race 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL2310 International Organizations and Diplomacy 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3050 The Ethics of Killing 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3053 Political Leadership in Britain 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3054 Urban International Politics 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3055 Applied Political Research with Quantitative Methods 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3060 The Politics of Protest in the Middle East 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3081 International Political Thought 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3092 Political Parties and Elections in the UK (Inactive) 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3103 Community-based Research in Politics 3 Semester 1
Semester 2
40 Credits
POL3109 Gender, Campaigns and Media (Inactive) 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3111 UK Parliamentary Studies 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3117 Politics of Immigration 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3118 Environmental Governance and Policy (Inactive) 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3124 Mexican Politics: Authoritarianism & Democracy 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3125 Politics of Citizenship 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3127 Global Apartheid Regimes 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3129 Global Justice: Global Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
POL3132 Public Policy: Theories, Cases, Skills 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
POL3133 Politics as a Way of Life 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC1027 Comparing Cultures 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC1030 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to the Discipline 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC1031 Knowing in Sociology: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Epistemology 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC1032 Politics and Society 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC1033 Understanding Everyday Life 1 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC1034 Investigating Inequalities and Crime 1 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2027 Comparing Cultures: Big debates (Inactive) 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC2044 Sociology of Crime: Social Control in Neoliberal Societies 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2056 Sociology of Health and Illness 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC2058 Understanding Social Change and Transformation 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2067 Consumer Cultures: An Anthropological Perspective (Inactive) 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC2069 Researching Social Life I 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2070 Researching Social Life II 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC2084 Social Invention of Central Europe (Inactive) 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2085 Refugees and Displacement: Borders, Camps, and Asylum 2 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC2087 Identity and Difference in Multicultural Britain 2 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC3044 Imagined Communities 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC3045 Regulating Sexuality 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC3047 Critical Approaches to Policing and Security 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC3049 States of Mind: Sociology and Mental Health 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC3077 Making People: The Anthropology of Personhood from Before Birth to After Death (Inactive) 3 Semester 2
20 Credits
SOC3089 Memory, identity and nation-building in eastern Europe: The view from anthropology (Inactive) 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC3090 Investigating the Body 3 Semester 1
20 Credits
SOC3099 Racism and Society 3 Semester 2
20 Credits