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Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology Modules 2025/6

Please note, details for interdisciplinary modules within the HASS faculty can be found here.

Stage One Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ANT1000	Introduction to Social Anthropology	30	1 and 2
ANT1013	Traditions of Anthropological Inquiry	30	1 and 2
CRI1003	Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance	15	1
CRI1004	Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology	15	2
CRI1005	Introduction to Criminal Justice	15	1
PHL1002A	Knowledge and Reality 1	15	1
PHL1002B	Knowledge and Reality 2	15	2
PHL1004	Philosophical Problems 1	15	2
PHL1005A	Evidence and Argument 1	15	1
PHL1006	Introduction to Philosophical Analysis	15	2
PHL1007	Philosophical Reading 1	15	1
PHL1009	Philosophies of Art	15	1
PHL1010	Introduction to Asian Philosophy	15	2
PHL1013	Philosophy of Morality	15	2
PHL1112	Philosophy of Film	15	2
POL1000	黑料吃瓜网 Skills for Politics and International Relations	15	1
POL1017	Globalisation of World Politics	15	1
POL1018	The Challenges of World Politics in the Twenty-First Century	15	2
POL1019	Power and Democracy	15	1
POL1020	Politics in Europe	15	1
POL1025	Classical Political Thought	15	1
POL1026	Early Modern Political Thought	15	2
POL1029	Introduction to Comparative Politics	15	1
POL1045	International Politics of the Global South	15	2
POL1046	The State of the UK: Identifying Marginalised Identities and Addressing Inequalities	15	2
POL1047	Global Sustainability Governance and Policy	15	2
POL1048	The Politics of Development	15	2
SOC1000	Contemporary Society: Themes, Perspectives and Case Studies	30	1 and 2
SOC1001	Social Analysis	30	1 and 2
SOC1028	Media and Society	15	2
SOC1053	Imagining Social Worlds: Social Research Methods	15	2
SPA1000	Imagining Social Worlds	30	1 and 2
SPA1001	Animal Politics	15	1
SPA1002	Population and Society	15	2
SPA1004	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence	15	2

Stage Two Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ANT2000	Current Debates in Anthropology	30	1 and 2
ANT2009	Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities	15	1
ANT2014	Cultures: Food	15	2
ANT2016	Anthropology of the State	15	1
ANT2017	Anthropology of Islam	15	2
ANT2021	Anthropology of the Middle East	15	1
ANT2023	Theory and Methods of Food Preservation	15	1
ANT2041	How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions	15	2
ANT2042	Gardening, Wellbeing and Community	15	1, 2 and 3
ANT2089	Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism	15	2
ANT2090	Sound and Society	15	1
ANT2097	Environment and Society	15	2
ANT2109	Anthropology of Forced Migration	15	2
ANT2114	The Anthropology of Prisons	15	2
ANT2116	Animals and Society	15	2
ANT2117	Dogs and Cats: Anthropological Subjects	15	1
ANT2118	Anthropology of Contemporary Britain	15	2
ANT2119	Social movements and collective action	15	2
CRI2001	Organised Crime and Criminal Networks	15	2
CRI2002	International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology	15	2
CRI2004	International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime	15	2
CRI2006	Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation	15	1
CRI2007	Imprisonment: Key Criminological and Sociological Themes	15	1
CRI2008	Police and Policing	15	2
CRI2009	Victimology	15	1
CRI2010	Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice	15	2
CRI2012	Deprivation of liberty: Imprisonment and beyond	15	2
CRI2013	Introduction to Terrorism Studies	15	2
CRI2014	Crime Science	15	1
CRI2015	Introduction to Terrorism Studies	30	1 and 2
CRI2017	Crimes of the Powerful	15	1
CRI2018	Crime Prevention and Control within Contemporary Society	15	2
PHL2001	Phenomenology	15	2
PHL2002	Existentialism	15	2
PHL2010A	Philosophy of Mind 1	15	2
PHL2015	Body and Mind	15	1
PHL2016	Metaphysics	15	1
PHL2018	Philosophy of Language	15	2
PHL2020	Virtues and Vices	15	1
PHL2021	Symbolic Logic	15	2
PHL2038	The Self	15	1
PHL2040	黑料吃瓜网 Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	1
PHL2042	Philosophical Frontiers	15	2
PHL2043	Philosophical Research	15	1
PHL2045	Aesthetics	15	2
PHL2052	Epistemology	15	1
PHL2053	History of Philosophy	15	1
PHL2054	Philosophy of Psychiatry	15	1
PHL2060	Philosophy of Emotion	15	1
PHL2096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
PHL2111	The Deep Past, History and Humanity	15	1
PHL2112	Practical Ethics	15	1
PHL2114	Aristotle's Ethics	15	2
PHL2117	Philosophy and Psychedelics	15	2
PHL2118	Moral agency in social context	15	1
PHL2119	Animal Minds and Animal Ethics	15	2
PHL2123	Philosophy of Medicine	15	2
PHL2125	Ethics of Emerging Technologies	15	2
PHL2127	Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy	15	1
PHL2130	Plato's Dialogues	15	2
PHL2131	Philosophy of Music	15	1
POL2020	Contemporary Theories of World Politics	15	1
POL2026	Political Analysis: Behaviour, Institutions, Ideas	15	1
POL2027	The Politics of the World Economy	15	1
POL2046	The Economics of Politics	15	1
POL2047	American Politics	15	2
POL2050	Political Philosophy	15	1
POL2057	Security Studies	15	2
POL2059	Political Thought of Modernity	15	2
POL2076	Rising Powers, Peace and Conflict	15	2
POL2079	Contemporary Public Debate in an Age of 'Anti-Politics'	15	1
POL2081	Thinking about Race: Perspectives from the Biological and Social Sciences	15	1
POL2082	Changing Character of Warfare	15	1
POL2098	What is Law? Jurisprudence from Stone Tablet to Brain Imaging	15	1
POL2102	Explaining Public Policies	15	1
POL2107	Gender and Comparative Public Policy	15	2
POL2115	British Foreign Policy	15	1
POL2122	The Politics and Policies of Youth Engagement	15	2
POL2128	Introduction to Research Design in Politics and International Relations	15	2
POL2130	Comparative Electoral Systems	15	1
POL2131	Environmental Governance	15	2
POL2132	Decolonising Global Justice	15	1
POL2164	The Politics of Humanitarian Emergencies	15	1
POL2165	Foreign Policy Analysis	15	2
POL2166	Gendering World Politics	15	2
SOC2005	Theoretical Sociology	30	1 and 2
SOC2009	Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives	15	2
SOC2024	Power and Domination	15	1
SOC2025	Current Themes in the Sociology of Sport	15	2
SOC2030	Sociology of Art and Culture	15	2
SOC2034	Gender and Society 1	15	2
SOC2037	Pharmaceutical Cultures	15	1
SOC2038	On Violence	15	2
SOC2039	Sociology of Family and Gender	15	2
SOC2087	Disability and Society	15	2
SOC2103	Senses and Society	15	2
SOC2105	Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance	15	1
SOC2122	Digital Society	15	2
SOC2124	Surveillance, Security and the State	15	2
SOC2150	Health, Illness and Biomedicine	15	2
SPA2000	Knowing the Social World	30	1 and 2
SPA2009	Data Science in Society	15	2
SPA2011	Ageing, Society and Health	15	1
SPA2013	Science, Technology and Society	15	2
SPA2014	Environments in the Public Sphere	15	2
SPA2016	Climate Change in Global and Local Perspectives	15	2
SPA2017	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
SPA2018	Addiction	30	1 and 2
SPA2019	Politics of Food and Farming	15	1
SPA2020	Emotions, the Body and the Social	15	1
SPA2021	Culture and Wellbeing	15	1
SPA2023	Wicked Problems and Global Challenges: How to Study Crises, Controversies and Catastrophes	15	2
SPA2026	Technology, Health and Technohealth	15	2
SPA2027	Bodies and Society	15	2
SPA2028	BioSocieties	15	1
SPA2029	Data Justice and Surveillance Capitalism	15	1

Stage Three Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ANT3004	Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities	15	1
ANT3014	Cultures: Food	15	2
ANT3016	Anthropology of the State	15	1
ANT3017	Anthropology of Islam	15	2
ANT3021	Anthropology of the Middle East	15	1
ANT3023	Theory and Methods of Food Preservation	15	1
ANT3024	Anthropology of Forced Migration	15	2
ANT3025	Social Movements and Collective Action	15	2
ANT3040	Anthropology Dissertation	30	1 and 2
ANT3053	How Organisations Work: Ethnography in Institutions	15	2
ANT3054	Gardening, Wellbeing and Community	15	1, 2 and 3
ANT3089	Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism	15	2
ANT3090	Sound and Society	15	1
ANT3096	The Anthropology of Prisons	15	2
ANT3097	Environment and Society	15	2
ANT3099	Animals and Society	15	2
ANT3100	Dogs and Cats: Anthropological subjects	15	1
ANT3118	Anthropology of Contemporary Britain	15	2
CRI3001	Organised Crime and Criminal Networks	15	2
CRI3002	International Criminal Justice: Comparative Criminology	15	2
CRI3004	International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime	15	2
CRI3006	Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation	15	1
CRI3007	Imprisonment: Key Criminological and Sociological Themes	15	1
CRI3008	Police and Policing	15	2
CRI3009	Victimology	15	1
CRI3010	Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice	15	2
CRI3012	Deprivation of liberty: Imprisonment and beyond	15	2
CRI3013	Introduction to Terrorism Studies	15	2
CRI3014	Crime Science	15	1
CRI3016	Solution Orientated Policing	15	2
CRI3017	Crimes of the Powerful	15	1
CRI3018	Crime Prevention and Control within Contemporary Society	15	2
PHL3001	Phenomenology	15	2
PHL3002	Existentialism	15	2
PHL3013	Virtues and Vices	15	1
PHL3014	Symbolic Logic	15	2
PHL3038	The Self	15	1
PHL3040	Philosophy Dissertation	30	1 and 2
PHL3045	Aesthetics	15	2
PHL3052	Epistemology	15	1
PHL3053	History of Philosophy	15	1
PHL3054	Philosophy of Psychiatry	15	1
PHL3060	Philosophy of Emotion	15	1
PHL3078	黑料吃瓜网 Theory: The Frankfurt School and Communicative Capitalism	15	1
PHL3080	Philosophical Frontiers	15	2
PHL3096	Cyborg Studies	15	1
PHL3111	The Deep Past, History and Humanity	15	1
PHL3113	Practical Ethics	15	1
PHL3114	Aristotle's Ethics	15	2
PHL3117	Philosophy and Psychedelics	15	2
PHL3118	Animal Minds and Animal Ethics	15	2
PHL3122	Philosophy of Medicine	15	2
PHL3124	Ethics of Emerging Technologies	15	2
PHL3126	Hidden Voices in Early Modern Philosophy	15	1
PHL3127	Plato's Dialogues	15	2
PHL3131	Philosophy of Music	15	1
POL3040	Dissertation	30	1 and 2
POL3054	Nuclear Weapons in International Relations	15	2
POL3069	Globalisation and the Politics of Resistance	30	1 and 2
POL3090	Politics and Conflict in Deeply Divided Societies	15	2
POL3168	War and its Aftermath: Interventions and Contemporary Conflict	30	1 and 2
POL3180	Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections	30	1 and 2
POL3196	Democracy in the European Union	30	1 and 2
POL3213	Feminist Political Theory	15	1
POL3234	Religion, Politics and Policy in Europe	30	1 and 2
POL3240	Women in the Criminal Justice System: Law, Policy and Institutions	15	2
POL3247	Politics of Biology	15	2
POL3248	Marxism(s) and International Relations	15	1
POL3250	Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis	15	1
POL3256	Trumping the Mainstream: The Populist Radical Right and Democratic politics	30	1 and 2
POL3259	Climate Justice	30	1 and 2
POL3260	Russian Foreign Policy	15	1
POL3263	Political Economy of Development	15	2
POL3274	Money, Lobbying, and Policymaking	15	2
POL3284	Realism and Its Critics: Debating and Applying International Relations Theory	15	2
POL3291	Disrupting Western and Neo-Liberal Policing of the Global and the Local	30	1 and 2
POL3292	LGBTQ+ Policies and Politics in the UK	15	1
POL3293	The Political Economy of Chinese Development	15	1
POL3294	Land, Power and Politics: a critical problem-based approach	15	1
POL3296	Political Economy of Populism	15	2
POL3297	Comparative Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism	15	1
POL3302	Elections, Public Opinion and Parties in Britain	15	2
POL3303	Protest, Activism and the Environment	30	1 and 2
POL3304	Political Philosophies of Power	15	2
POL3306	Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	15	1
POL3310	War in the 21st Century	30	1 and 2
POL3311	Brexit: Causes, Interpretation and Implications	15	1
POL3312	The Transformation of Politics in the Global Age	15	1
POL3316	Empire and Hierarchy in Russia and Eurasia	15	2
POL3317	Authoritarian Resilience in the Global South	15	2
POL3318	Transformation of Social and Political Realities through Smartphones	15	2
POL3319	The Politics of Place	15	2
POL3320	Politics Online	15	2
POL3321	The Politics of Economic Policymaking	30	1 and 2
POL3322	Artificial Intelligence and Democracy	30	1 and 2
POL3323	International Relations in Global History	30	1 and 2
POL3324	War, Culture and Society	30	1 and 2
POL3325	Understanding Public and Nonprofit Management	15	1
POL3326	International Politics of the Body	30	1 and 2
POL3327	Strategy and Psychology in Foreign Policy	15	2
POL3328	Surveys and Experiments: Design Implementation and Analysis	15	1
SOC3002	On Violence	15	2
SOC3013	Gender and Society 1	15	2
SOC3030	Sociology of Art and Culture	15	2
SOC3035	Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives	15	2
SOC3040	Dissertation	30	1 and 2
SOC3080	Pharmaceutical Cultures	15	1
SOC3087	Disability and Society	15	2
SOC3103	Senses and Society	15	2
SOC3109	Contemporary Capitalism, Critique and Resistance	15	1
SOC3130	Digital Society	15	2
SOC3132	Surveillance, Security and the State	15	2
SOC3147	Power and Domination	15	1
SOC3148	Current Themes in the Sociology of Sport	15	2
SOC3150	Health, Illness and Biomedicine	15	2
SPA3003	Data Justice and Surveillance Capitalism	15	1
SPA3009	Data Science in Society	15	2
SPA3011	Ageing, Society and Health	15	1
SPA3013	Science, Technology and Society	15	2
SPA3014	Environments in the Public Sphere	15	2
SPA3016	Climate Change in Global and Local Perspectives	15	2
SPA3017	The Holocaust, Genocide and Society	30	1 and 2
SPA3018	Addiction	30	1 and 2
SPA3019	Politics of Food and Farming	15	1
SPA3020	Emotions, the Body and the Social	15	1
SPA3021	Culture and Wellbeing	15	1
SPA3023	Wicked Problems and Global Challenges: How to Study Crises, Controversies and Catastrophes	15	2
SPA3024	Which Policies Work? Causal Methods for Policy Evaluation	15	1
SPA3025	Data Visualisation	15	2
SPA3026	Technology, Health and Technohealth	15	2
SPA3027	Bodies and Society	15	2
SPA3028	BioSocieties	15	1

Masters Modules

Code	Module Title	Credits	Term(s)	ELE link
ANTM003	Theory and Methods of Food Preservation	15	1
ANTM006	Gardening, Wellbeing and Community	15	1, 2 and 3
ANTM021	Food, Body and Society	15	1
ANTM100	The Animal Mirror: Representations of Animality	15	3
ANTM101	Animals, Health and Healing	15	2
ANTM102	Anthrozoology: Theory and Method	30	1
ANTM103	Applied Anthrozoology	30	1 and 2
ANTM105	Humans and Wildlife: Conflict and Conservation	15	3
ANTM107	Anthrozoology Residential	15	3
ANTM109	Animal Criminology	15	2
ANTM111	Animal Ethics	15	1
ANTM112	Animals and Religion	15	2
ANTM904	Dissertation	60	3
PHLM006	Contemporary Ethics	30	2
PHLM007	Current Issues in Mind and Cognition	30	1
PHLM008	Mind, Body and World	30	2
PHLM009	Dissertation	60	3
PHLM010	Introduction to Philosophical Methods	30	1
PHLM013	Philosophy and Psychedelics	15	1
PHLM014	Philosophy and Psychedelics	30	1
PHLM015	Contemporary Ethics	15	2
PHLM017	Philosophy of Science	30	1
POLM013M	MPA Dissertation	60	2
POLM014M	MPA Applied Studies	60	1, 2 and 3
POLM063	Qualitative Methods in Social Research	15	1
POLM082	International Relations of the Middle East	30	1
POLM084	Conflict, Security and Development in World Politics	30	1
POLM085	Work Placement in Conflict, Security and Development	30	1 and 2
POLM088	State-building after Civil War	30	1
POLM110	Theories of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	30	2
POLM111	Applied Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	30	1
POLM140	Qualitative Methods in Social Research	30	1
POLM144	The West, Civilisations and World Order	30	1
POLM148	Brexit: Causes, Interpretation and Implications	30	1
POLM156	The Transformation of Politics in the Global Age	30	1
POLM158	Digital Politics and Policy	30	1
POLM168	From Oppression to Resistance: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class and Gender	30	2
POLM173	Theories of International Development	30	1
POLM174	Tools, Policy and Practice of International Development	30	2
POLM217	Conflict, Security and Development in Eurasia	30	1
POLM220M	Management and Governance: Comparing Public Administration around the World	30	1
POLM222M	The Politics, Policy and Practice of Sustainable Development	30	2
POLM228M	Leadership, Equality and Diversity	30	1
POLM231	State Crime	30	1
POLM233	Applied Strategy in the Contemporary World	30	2 and 3
POLM237M	Collaborative and Participatory Governance	30	2
POLM239	International Organisation	30	1
POLM240	Security Futures	30	2
POLM241	How to Make a Decision: Understanding Command, Leadership and Management	30	1
POLM242	Theory of Strategy: Conceptual Approaches for Surviving and Thriving	30	1
POLM243	Dissertation	60	3
POLM244	Chinese Foreign Policy	30
POLM245	Ethnopolitical Conflicts in International Law and Politics	30	2
POLM246	The Politics of the Future	30	2
POLM307	International Politics of the Body	30	1
POLM308	Transnational Security and Terrorism	30	2
POLM341	Omnishambles - Global Politics Simulation	30	2 and 3
POLM342M	Public Accountability and Governance	30	2
POLM343	Gender, War and Militarism	30	2
POLM344	Empire and Hierarchy in Russia and Eurasia	30	2
POLM502	International Relations: Power and Institutions	30	1
POLM503	Foreign Policy Decision-Making	30	2
POLM651	State and Society in the Middle East	30	1
POLM803	Sources in Modernity and Post-Modernity	30	2
POLM809	Applied Quantitative Data Analysis	15	1
POLM811DA	Systemic Service Design	30	1
POLM812DA	Inclusive Systemic Evaluation	30	2
POLM813DA	Intervention 1	30	3
POLM814DA	Service Design Ethics	30	1 and 2
POLM815DA	Intervention 2	30	3
POLM816DA	Capstone	30	1 and 2
POLM886	Dissertation	60	1, 2 and 3
POLM887	Public Policy Process	30	1
POLM891DA	Introduction to Systems Thinking	30	2
POLM892DA	Organisational Viability and Sustainability	30	3
POLM893DA	Equality, Diversity and Leadership	30	2
POLM894DA	Systemic Intervention	30	2
POLM895DA	Work-Based Project 1	30	3
POLM896DA	Work-Based Project 2	30	3
POLM897	Surveys and Experiments: Design, Implementation and Analysis	15	1
POLM898DA	End-Point Assessment Preparation	30	1 and 2
SOCM002A	Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1	15	2
SOCM002B	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	30	2
SOCM019	Research Methods in the Social Sciences	15	1
SOCM021	Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks and Ethical Consumption	30	1
SOCM022	Food, Body and Society	30	1
SOCM023	Social Theory	15	2
SOCM027	Social Theory	30	2
SOCM033	Data Governance and Ethics	15	2
SOCM044	Food and Sustainability: Economy, Society and Environment	15	2
SOCM045	Food and Sustainability: Economy, Society and Environment	30	2
SOCM046	Meaning, Making Consuming	30	1
SOCM049	Magic and Ritual	15	2
SOCM050	Secrecy Studies: On Concealment, Disclosure and Revelation	15	1
SOCM052	Cultures and Environments of Health	30	1 and 2
SOCM054	Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks and Ethical Consumption	15	1
SOCM904	Dissertation	60	3
SPAM002	Security, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies	30	1 and 2
SPAM003	Computational Social Science 1	15	1
SPAM004	Computational Social Science 2	15	2
SPAM007	Which Policies Work? Causal Methods for Policy Evaluation	15	1