November 28th 2023

Following University approval, we have made changes to the ‘Modules’ tab:

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Feminist Theory and Epistemology: Debates and Dilemmas

This module introduces you to current debates and provides you with tools to critically assess research in this field.

A choice of a core from this list:

• Qualitative Methods in Social Research
• Quantitative Methods in Social Research
• Understanding Social Science
• Researching Inequality: Race, Class, Gender in Global Perspective

Optional modules

Optional modules can vary from year to year. Example optional modules may include:

• Gender, Imperialism and International Development
• Social Data Science
• Gender Analysis and Development Practice
• Cultures of Life, Authority and Power in Modernity
• Market Life: Wealth and Poverty in Global Capitalism
• Social Research for Social Change
• Understanding Social Science
• The Sociology of Urban Life
• Postcolonial Theory and Practice
• Transnational Media Ecologies
• Feminist Pedagogy/Feminist Activism
• Queering Sociology
• Key Problems in Criminal Justice
• Creative Research Methods
• Ethnography and the Anthropological Tradition
• Sociology of End Times
• Social Data Science

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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

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

We have also made changes to the ‘Teaching and learning’ tab:

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Teaching

Each of our MA courses has specified core modules which will be studied alongside a range of optional modules. You will be required to choose four optional modules from our departmental list. All our MA courses follow a consistent structure meaning that you will follow a programme of taught modules, followed by a 15,000-word dissertation.

Assessment

Taught modules are assessed through written assignments. You will focus on your 15-000 word dissertation after the end of Spring Term.

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Teaching

Each of our MA courses has specified core modules which will be studied alongside a range of optional modules. All our MA courses follow a consistent structure meaning that you will follow a programme of taught modules, followed by a 15,000-word dissertation.

Assessment

Taught modules are assessed through essays and other types of assignment. You will focus on your 15,000 word dissertation after the end of Spring Term.

Finally, we have amended the list of career opportunities with our programme, on the ‘Careers’ tab:

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Your career

Graduates from our courses have gone on to work for employers including various national and international Universities, NGOs and the charity sector, or the civil service. They have pursued roles such as teaching; data analyst and researcher; campaigns organisation; business and financial project management professionals; higher education teaching professionals; IT project and programme managers; legal professionals and research and development managers.

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Your career

Graduates from our courses have gone on to work for employers including universities, NGOs and the charity sector, international agencies, arts organisations or the civil service. They have worked in areas such as teaching and lecturing; data analysis and research; campaigns and activism; aid and development; publishing and the media; law; social work; social policy; arts and culture; HR, consultancy and business.