This programme provides core teaching in the ideas and approaches of sociology as applied to understanding social order and social change globally and internationally. It explores the local impacts of global processes, and the global impacts of local processes.

During this intensive, one-year programme students will explore these processes by developing their own research agenda, both in coursework and in a supervised dissertation project of their own choice.

The programme presents sociology as the study of a dynamic and globalizing world, around such areas as:

environment and sustainable development
migration, refugees and displacement
the sociology of globalization
gender, emotions, intimate and family life
global financial markets, economic sociology and global capitalism
social network analysis
social movements and global inequalities
human rights and citizenship
digital and global popular cultures