MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

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Studying at LSE

This programme is based in the Institute of Social Psychology| and offers the following benefits:

• A high quality academic training addressing the relations between psychological, social and cultural phenomena, providing extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied issues.
• A unique approach emphasising the development of critical thinking and analytical skills, which integrates theory and practice for the construction of research and intervention at the individual, institutional and community levels.
• The experience of studying in a culturally vibrant international environment, within the world's leading institution of the social sciences, where social and cultural psychology is in close contact with sociological, anthropological, economic, and social policy debates.
• An extensive choice of specialist courses within the Institute and the School, addressing a variety of theoretical and applied issues in social and cultural psychology and in the social sciences as a whole.
• An MSc degree with research training recognition from the Economic and Social Research Council UK, from which students may progress to a research degree or employment in the public and private sectors.

About the MSc programme

To be considered for a place you should normally have a good honours degree in a social science related discipline.

This programme will increase and update your knowledge and professional competence in the area of social and cultural psychology. It combines the study of theoretical and applied issues with a sophisticated training in a broad range of research methods.

The programme involves completing four course units, and a research report of 10,000 words. Optional courses cover key areas of applied social and cultural psychology and are intended to equip you for a career in business organisations, communities, health, the media, development and international agencies, government or in research.

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology
• Research Methods
• Research Report

Options

Choose courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

• Gender and Media Representation*
• Globalising Sexualities*
• Cultural Constructions of the Body*
• Social Representations*
• Current Communication Research*
• The Social Psychology of Economic Life*
• Social Psychology of Health Communication*
• Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology*
• Knowledge, Networks and Collaborative Work*
• Representations, Institutions and Communities*
• Corporate Communications* 
• Science, Technology and Resistance*
• Organisational and Social Decision Making*
• Issues in Organisational and Social Psychology: Organisational Life*
• Psychoanalysis and Communication*
• Cognition and Culture*
• Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture and Resistance*  
• Theory and Practice of Organisational Development*

Not all these courses may be available in any one year. For more details and the latest information please see Institute of Social Psychology|.