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Degree Programme Table: Geography and Sociology (MA Hons) (UTGGPSO)

Jump to: Year 4

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Social Theory
SCIL10018 20 credits
Geography Dissertation
GEGR10053 40 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Geography Joint Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Catchment Water Resources
GEGR10023 20 credits
Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change
GEGR10055 20 credits
Glacial Processes and Geomorphology
GEGR10075 20 credits
Space, place and sensory perception
GEGR10116 20 credits
Writing Landscape
GEGR10118 20 credits
Ice and Climate
GEGR10119 20 credits
Environmental Justice
GEGR10123 20 credits
Land and Landscape: Explorations in Society and Nature
GEGR10125 20 credits
Geographies of the Border
GEGR10126 20 credits
Capital, Land and Power
GEGR10127 20 credits
The Blue Humanities: Studying the Sea
GEGR10128 20 credits
Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers
GEGR10136 20 credits
Volcanoes, Environment and People
GEGR10139 20 credits
Geographies of Food
GEGR10140 20 credits
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender
GEGR10141 20 credits
Global Hydrology
GEGR10146 20 credits
Black Geographies
GEGR10147 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Sociology Honours Electives

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
African Studies: Topics & Themes
AFRI10007 20 credits
Muslims in Europe
IMES10098 20 credits
International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World
IMES10108 20 credits
Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context
IMES10110 20 credits
Criminologies of Atrocity
LAWS10218 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 20 credits
Intimate Relationships
SCIL10023 20 credits
Religion and Society
SCIL10058 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
Globalization
SCIL10067 20 credits
Migration: social origins and social consequences
SCIL10068 20 credits
Race And Ethnicity
SCIL10071 20 credits
Sociology of Emotions
SCIL10072 20 credits
Digital Culture
SCIL10079 20 credits
The social life of food
SCIL10081 20 credits
Sociology of the Arts
SCIL10083 20 credits
Sociology of Freedom
SCIL10093 20 credits
The Modern Self and Art
SCIL10094 20 credits
Diversities: Canada and Beyond
SCIL10096 20 credits
Social Demography
SCIL10097 20 credits
Media, AI and Memory
SCIL10100 20 credits
Algorithms, AI and Society
SCIL10101 20 credits
Reading Bourdieu on Culture and Society
SCIL10102 20 credits
Social Inequality and the Life Course
SCPL10020 20 credits
Race, Power, and Social Policy
SCPL10043 20 credits
Drug Policy and the Public Good
SHSS10011 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Cases in Sustainable Development
SSPS10014 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
Introduction to Internet, AI and Society
STIS10020 20 credits
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