MA Gender and Sexuality

2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject.

For fees and funding information please see our website

We offer a variety of postgraduate funding options for study at the University of Warwick, from postgraduate loans, university scholarships, fee awards, to academic department bursaries.

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.

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Make Your Mark - Careers with a degree in Sociology
• Working for More than Profit
• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• Your Sociological future: Sociology Alumni Evening
• My Sociological Future- What next? Career planning for undecided Sociology finalists

Core modules

Required Core Modules

• Feminist and Queer Thinking: Contemporary Challenges
• Feminist Theories and Epistemologies: Debates and Dilemmas
• One module on Research Methods
• Dissertation (Year One full-time and Year Two part-time)

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:

You will choose three optional modules:

• Politics and Social Theory
• Capitalism States & Markets
• Postcolonial Theory & Politics
• Indigenous and Global South Feminisms
• Decolonising Ecology: Race, Coloniality and the Climate Crisis
• Key Problems in Criminal Justice
• Gender, Imperialism and International Development
• Gender Analysis and Development Practice
• Market Life: Wealth and Poverty in Global Capitalism
• Social Research for Social Change
• Queering Sociology
• Sexualities
• Reproductive Justice
• Quantitative Methods in Social Research
• Qualitative Methods in Social Research
• Archival Encounters
• Ethnography and the Anthropological Tradition
• Social Data Science
• Creative Research Methods
• Big Data: Hype or Revolution
• Critical Readings in Social Theory
• Transnational Media Ecologies
• Religion and the Planetary Crises
• Sociology of End Times
• Sociology of Work