Core modules
Required Core Modules
Feminist and Queer Thinking: Contemporary Challenges
This module engages with challenges for feminist and queer knowledge production that are emerging at present, across various contexts. It considers both challenges within knowledge production itself (e.g., methodological/ethical challenges when conducting research; the challenges to our thinking posed by new feminist and queer theories/turns) and challenges that feminist and queer scholars are facing more broadly (e.g., challenges posed by anti-gender mobilisations, or other social and political developments). As it engages with each challenge, the module connects theory, ethics and praxis, inviting you to reflect on the intellectual context of the challenge, consider the ethical implications of it, and workshop practical strategies to engage with it. This team-taught module draws on the diverse research expertise of academics affiliated with Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.
Feminist Theories and Epistemologies: Debates and Dilemmas
This module introduces debates in feminist theories and epistemologies. It is different from conventional modules on theory and epistemology, which often cover ‘key authors’ or theories chronologically. As we will see, one crucial intervention that feminist scholars have made has been precisely to question this approach to understanding theory. Instead, we will zoom in on debates and dilemmas that have challenged feminist scholarship and we will examine their complexities and contradictions. In this way, we will involve students in the active process of thinking through feminist debates and dilemmas, framing the classroom as a space of collective knowledge production, rather than passive learning of the history of problems already theorised and resolved by others. This team-taught module draws on the diverse research expertise of academics affiliated with Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.
One module on Research Methods
You will take at least one module in research methods. You can choose one (or more) from the following list:
- Qualitative Methods in Social Research
- Quantitative Methods in Social Research
- Understanding Social Science
- Researching Inequality: Race, Class, Gender in Global Perspective
Dissertation (Year One full-time and Year Two part-time)
The dissertation module gives you the opportunity to complete an independent piece of research on a topic of your own choice with the support of your dissertation supervisor. The aim is for you to creatively use the substantive and methodological training acquired in the earlier part of your course to critically analyse a research topic of relevance to gender and sexuality studies.
Optional modules
You will choose three optional modules. Up to two of those modules can be modules offered by other departments at Warwick.
Optional modules vary from year to year. Example optional modules offered within the Department of Sociology include:
- Gender, Imperialism and International Development
- Gender Analysis and Development Practice
- Feminist Pedagogy/Feminist Activism
- Queering Sociology
- Indigenous and Global South Feminisms
- Social Data Science
- Market Life: Wealth and Poverty in Global Capitalism
- Social Research for Social Change
- Postcolonial Theory and Practice
- Transnational Media Ecologies
- Key Problems in Criminal Justice
- Creative Research Methods
- Ethnography and the Anthropological Tradition
- Sociology of End Times
- Politics and Social Theory
- Capitalism, State and Market
- State of the Art of Sociology
- The Sociology of Work
- Religion and the Planetary Crises
