Component

MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
BA Social Change options

Year 2, Component 03

CS207-5-AU and/or option(s) from list
CS207-5-AU
Beyond the BA: Building Career and Employability Readiness
(0 CREDITS)
GV250-5-AU
Principles of Social Justice
(15 CREDITS)

This module will introduce you to “principles of social justice”. These principles tell us how a political community should distribute resources and opportunities between individuals and groups. The module examines competing principles of social justice by examining the work of the most important political philosophers to have defended them and also applies these principles to concrete social and political issues.

HU200-5-FY
Human Rights, Regional Systems & Global Challenges
(30 CREDITS)

This module builds on the foundations laid in the first year and introduces students to the institutions that uphold and enforce international human rights standards, as well as the multidisciplinary nature of Human Rights and Social Justice.

SC201-5-FY
Power and Agency in a Global World
(30 CREDITS)

Want to study sociological classics? Wish to read and interpret original texts by Marx, Durkheim and Weber? Then study a selection of the contemporary writers who followed? We look at classic and modern thinkers, carrying their ideas into new contexts and inverting approaches to social understanding.

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