MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

About the MSc programme

This programme offers 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.

The programme has 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.

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
• Fundamental Research Methods for Social Psychology* or another approved methodology course* 
• Research Report

Options 

Choose courses to the value of one and a half units:

• 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 Processes in Organisations*
• 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*
• Inter-cultural Relations and Racism*  
• Theory and Practice of Organisational Development*
• Consumer Psychology* 

Students may choose additional research methods as part of their option choices. Not all these courses may be available in any one year.