Year 1 at Sussex
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn teaching
- 21st Century Sociology
- Colonialism and After
- Global Development Paradigms, Policy and Politics
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
Spring teaching
- Global Development Challenges and Innovation
- Key Thinkers in Development
- Making the Familiar Strange
- Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
Year 2 at Sussex
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn teaching
- Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
- Economic Perspectives on Development
- Social Change, Culture and Development
Spring teaching
- Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
Study abroad or Placement
- Study abroad (optional)
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
- Placement (optional)
To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optional placement as part of your course. You’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. Our dedicated careers team can provide you with information and advice. If you’re successful in obtaining a placement, this will form part of your course.
Year 3 at Sussex
Options
You choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.
While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
Autumn teaching
- Critical Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
- Cultures of Colonialism
- Death of Socialism?
- Development Tools and Skills
- Geographies of Money, Finance, and Debt
- Horizontal Development(s)
- Human Rights
- Identity and Interaction
- Mobilities and Global Inequalities
- Refugees, Migrants and Religion
- Religions in Global Politics
- Sexualities / Intimacies / Intersections
- Sociology of Fun (Aut)
- Sociology Research Proposal
- Surveillance, Technology and Control
- The Global Politics of Health
- The Politics of Armed Groups: Rebels, State and Society
- Transcendence, Devotion and Desire
Autumn and spring teaching
- International Development Thesis
Spring teaching
- Alternative Societies (Spr)
- Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
- Decolonial Movements
- Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Digital Development: Gender, Health and Technology
- Geographies of Rising and Declining Powers
- Global Politics of Food
- Global Resistance: Subjects and Practices
- Human Rights, Security and Decoloniality
- Medicine and the Body
- Migration, Identity, and Home
- Postcolonial Europe?
- Race, Ethnicity and Identity
- Sexualities / Intimacies / Intersections
- Sociology Project
- The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Spr)
- Urban Futures
- Whose Histories Matter? Doing Decolonial Heritage and National Identities
