Module Outlines

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