Please note: this course is subject to final approval.

The world is in a state of social and political upheaval. Faced with multiple crisis – of the environment, of democracy, of war and peace, of poverty among plenty, of facing up to colonialism and structural racism – it is high time to gain better comprehension of the social and political world, and find new solutions. But just as the problems do not come neatly packaged in disciplines, the solutions won’t either.

This interdisciplinary MA allows students to draw on Essex’s strengths in social and political theory, from critical theory to ideology discourse analysis, from human rights to the sociology of migration, from intergenerational justice to environmental philosophy, from psychoanalytic approaches to theories of justice. Combining compulsory and optional modules from both the humanities and the social sciences, MA Social and Political Thought will equip students to see the world in a new way and to change it for the better.

The University of Essex is involved in many exciting and interdisciplinary research projects, and have active links with other areas including Political Science, Law, Sociology, Psychoanalysis, and Art History.