MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (MSSA)

Module Code	Module Name	Description
MGD503	Gender, Environment, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction	Gender is relevant in determining access and control of natural resources, transforming the environment and achieving sustainable development. Students are taught to apply various theories including liberal feminism, eco-feminism, post-colonial theories and intersectional ecological approaches to analyse and reshape the discourse on environmental and climate change disasters. The module seeks to expose to policy makers and help them appreciate certain problematic tendencies such as regarding women as simply being at risk, and men as reckless in mitigation and adaptation policies. The module brings to the fore issues on climate justice; climate movements and the gender dynamics embedded in them so that students as future technocrats can be able to engage with their work. Finally, the module offers knowledge on climate change governance and the disaster risk reduction architecture, to ensure students have policy analysis skills to reshape the field.
MSSA500	Advanced Anthropological & Sociological Theory	This module offers students the opportunity to pursue their interests in contemporary anthropological and sociological theory at an advanced level. The module encourages students to use social theory in order to think creatively, constructively and critically about the ways in which the social and political world is changing today.
MSSA501	Industrial, Technological & Workplace Sociology	This module draws on sociological and social scientific research and theorizing to conceptualize the complex and dynamic relationship between work and technology. By the end of the module, students will be equipped to interrogate the role of technology in capitalism’s past, model and design solutions in relation to the present age of digital disruption, and imagine the possibilities for an uncertain future.
MSSRM501	Advanced Social Science Research Methods (Faculty Wide Module)	The module aims to provide advanced skills in research methods for graduate students. It enhances postgraduate students’ knowledge and skills for conducting, analysing and interpreting research in the field of sociology, anthropology and gender studies. The module focuses upon both qualitative and quantitative techniques and the knowledge gained, will be useful for conducting research and as tools for professional practice. The module will also equip learners with the use of digital technologies in data collection, processing, analysis and management.
MIDSB501	Information Digital Skills for Postgraduates (University Wide Module)	The module introduces students to the use of information technologies and their application in academic research.
MSSA504	Social Development, Social Policy and Administration	This module unpacks recent scholarship that critically reframes the relationship between social policy, understood broadly as those policies designed to address and alleviate social problems with a view to promoting human welfare and social development, and the diverse development challenges faced by the global South. Students will be able to contribute to how social policies might be designed and implemented, and by whom, to address poverty and inequality, and thereby achieve more positive development outcomes. At the end of the module students will contribute to models and frameworks of Social Policy relevant to the local context and beyond.
MSSA505	Rural and Urban Development	This module offers a broad perspective, in which we seek to both analyse and model and design solutions to ‘typically’ rural and urban settings, and focus on the multiple relationships and interactions that connect these two settings. Through individual, as well as group-based module work students, will acquire a critical social-science approach to urban and rural development in developing countries. Students will acquire the knowledge and concrete skills necessary to model and design solutions to, assess and work in urban and rural development-related fields, whether in direct poverty reduction or in other aspects of social and institutional development.
MSSA503	Migration, Politics and Human Rights	The module aims to provide an advanced understanding of the history and development of migration as an object of policy and as a site of political contestation, drawing predominantly on the experience between the Global North and Global South. Learners will be able to critique, improve and contribute to migration policies.
MGD503	Gender, Policy Planning and Development Practice	Gender is relevant in determining access and control of natural resources, transforming the environment and achieving sustainable development. Students are taught to apply various theories including liberal feminism, eco-feminism, post-colonial theories and intersectional ecological approaches to analyse and reshape the discourse on environmental and climate change disasters. The module seeks to expose to policy makers and help them appreciate certain problematic tendencies such as regarding women as simply being at risk, and men as reckless in mitigation and adaptation policies. The module brings to the fore issues on climate justice; climate movements and the gender dynamics embedded in them so that students as future technocrats can be able to engage with their work. Finally, the module offers knowledge on climate change governance and the disaster risk reduction architecture, to ensure students have policy analysis skills to reshape the field.
MSSA570	Dissertation	A dissertation between 20000– 25000 words within six months is compulsory. The dissertation shall be submitted at the end of 18 months or the third semester. Topics for the dissertation will be organised around various thematic areas and should respond to current problems facing the nation.