Postgraduate Modules

Please note, while the modules and module descriptors are set out below as accurately as possible, additions or removals of available modules, and changes of module content, instructors, and assessment procedures are often unavoidable because of changes in staff availability, resource constraints, and other pressures. Thank you for your understanding.

MSc in Comparative Social Change

Note: Module Outlines for Academic Year 2025/2026 are currently being updated and may be subject to change

Mandatory Course Modules

Modules delivered at Trinity:

• Research Methods
• Globalisation and Social Change: India, China, Brazil

Modules delivered at UCD:

• Introduction to Comparative Social Change: Concepts and Cases

Both Universities:

• Dissertation

Elective Course Modules

Modules delivered at Trinity:

• The Migration Challenge: Comparative Educational Perspectives
• Migration, Labour and Conflict
• Gender and Social Change in a Comparative Context

Modules delivered at UCD:

• Nationalism and Social Change
• Global Responses to Climate Change
• Comparing Healthcare Systems
• Sociological Thinking in the Digital Age
• Religion in Comparative Perspective

MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict

Note: Module Outlines for Academic Year 2025/2026 are currently being updated and may be subject to change

Mandatory Course Modules

• Theories of Race & Ethnicity (SOP77011)
• Research Methods
• Theories of Conflict
• Dissertation

Optional Course Modules (student selects 6)

• Racism and Resistance
• Statelessness and Forced Migration
• Conflict Zones: Case Studies
• Gender and Race 
• Labour, Migration and Conflict 
• Questions of Identity in Europe - part 2