Psychosocial Studies (MA)

COURSE STRUCTURE

Genuinely interdisciplinary, our MA combines core taught courses with option modules, and the opportunity for independent research supervised by staff members and advanced doctoral students.

Each year we offer a variety of option modules within the Department and we also cross-list available courses from the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy. The options below are an indicative list.

You also undertake an Independent Research Module, to support you in choosing, developing and undertaking a piece of independent research (qualitative, empirical or theoretical).

CORE MODULES

• Texts and Interpretation
• Theories and Sites of the Psychosocial

INDICATIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL OPTION MODULES

• Culture, Community, Identity
• Mental Health and Madness
• Psychoanalysis and Culture
• Psychoanalysis and History

INDICATIVE COLLEGE-WIDE OPTION MODULES

• 'Race', Ethnicity and Development
• Cultures of Human Rights
• Equality and the Law
• Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history
• Futures: The Globalization of Human Rights
• Gender and Development
• Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control
• Hidden Persuaders: Brainwashing, Cold War Culture and the Psy Sciences
• Moral Responsibility (15 Credits, Level 7)
• Philosophy and Gender (Level 7, 15 credits)
• Philosophy, Business and Society
• Qualitative Social Research
• Social Justice
• The Biology of Evil (Level 7, 15 credits)
• War, Conflict and Development

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH MODULE

• Independent Research Module

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