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 |
| GEO1019 | Physical Geography Field Course | 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 |
| GEO1103 | Quantitative Geographical Analysis | 1 | Semester 1 |
10 Credits |
| GEO2043 | Key Methods for Human Geographers | 2 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2047 | Political Geography | 2 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2052 | Physical Geography Field course 2: Iceland | 2 | 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 |
| GEO2112 | Student Exchange Semester 2 | 2 | Semester 2 |
50 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 |
| GEO2124 | The creative and knowledge-based economy: Berlin 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 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2139 | Exploring Everyday Political Geographies in a Divided City: Nicosia Field Course | 2 | Semester 2 |
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 |
| GEO2232 | City of Crisis, City of Hope: Amsterdam Field course | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2233 | Humans vs Nature in the Netherlands (Netherlands Field course) | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2234 | Global Challenges (Inactive) | 2 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO2236 | Class, Race & Nation in Comparative Context: Ireland Human Geography Field Course | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3063 | Military geographies (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3102 | Geopolitics | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3103 | Geographies of Money | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3114 | Local and Regional Development | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3115 | Student Exchange Semester 1 | 3 | Semester 1 |
40 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 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3147 | Palaeoclimates (Inactive) | 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 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3159 | Displacement and Migration (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3160 | Crises of Economy: Money and Labour (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| GEO3161 | Humanitarianism and Health Inequalities | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL1015 | The Westminster System: Politics of the UK | 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 |
| POL2015 | International Institutions: Who Governs the Globe? | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL2016 | Foreign Policy Analysis: Theories and Approaches | 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 |
| POL2072 | Student Exchange: Semester 2 | 2 | Semester 2 |
60 Credits |
| POL2082 | Political Violence and the Modern State | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL2088 | The Politics of Africa: Africa's place in Global Politics (Inactive) | 2 | Semester 2 |
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 | Security Studies | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL2111 | Democracy or Dictatorship? What are the differences and how do we analyse them | 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 |
| POL3046 | Final Year Dissertation | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| POL3047 | Final Year Project: Semester 1 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3048 | Final Year Project: Semester 2 | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3050 | The Ethics of Killing | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3053 | Political Leadership in Britain | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3054 | International Politics and Urbanism (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3055 | Applied Political Research with Quantitative Methods | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3056 | Ethnographic Methods in the Political Field (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3071 | Student Exchange : Semester 1 | 3 | Semester 1 |
60 Credits |
| POL3076 | Student Exchange (Dissertation students) | 3 | Semester 1 |
40 Credits |
| POL3081 | International Political Thought (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3092 | Political Parties and Elections in the UK | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3103 | Community-based Research in Politics | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| POL3109 | Gender, Campaigns and Media | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3111 | UK Parliamentary Studies | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3114 | Animal and Environmental Ethics (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3117 | Politics of Immigration | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3124 | Mexican Politics: Authoritarianism & Democracy | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3125 | Politics of Citizenship | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3126 | Latin American Politics (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3127 | Global Apartheid Regimes | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3128 | The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| POL3129 | Global Justice: Global Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| POL3131 | The Politics of Health | 3 | Semester 2 |
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 |
| 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 | 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 | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SOC2086 | Post-disciplinary Criminology: Hermeneutics, Poststructuralism and Cultural Theory (Inactive) | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SOC2087 | Identity and Difference in Multicultural Britain | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SOC3045 | Regulating Sexuality | 3 | Semester 2 |
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 | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SOC3078 | Dreamworlds: Society and the utopian imagination (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SOC3085 | Student Exchange | 3 | Semester 1 |
40 Credits |
| SOC3089 | Memory, identity and nation-building in eastern Europe: The view from anthropology | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SOC3090 | Investigating the Body | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SOC3099 | Racism and Society | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |