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A core priority of the Bauman Institute is to translate our research into our teaching practice to ensure that we deliver excellence to our postgraduate students and contribute to the already vibrant academic community within the School of Sociology and Social Policy here at Leeds.
To this end, we offer two postgraduate programmes, namely:
Both programmes allow students to be actively involved in directing their own learning, principally through a principle of ‘negotiated assessment’ to encourage students to pursue their own research into topics of interests.
With a commitment to critical thinking, the programmes strike a balance between the obvious value of theoretical reflection with the analysis of concrete social and political problems in a rapidly changing world.
As such, these programmes will be of particular interest to sociologists, social and political theorists, and cultural studies students, as well as anyone with an interest in critical thinking across the arts, humanities and social sciences.
in honour of Leeds’s Emeritus Professor, Zygmunt Bauman, the Bauman Institute is a new international research and teaching centre dedicated to addressing key social problems that affect rapidly changing societies across the globe.
A core priority of the Bauman Institute is to translate our research and knowledge transfer work into our teaching practice, in the hope of ensuring that we are able to deliver excellence to our postgraduate students and to foster a vibrant academic community within the School of Sociology and Social Policy more broadly.
To help us to translate our work into our teaching practice, the Bauman Institute will launch two new postgraduate programmes in September 2010: MA Social and Political Thought and MA International Social Transformation.
These new programmes allow us to address the kinds of urgently pressing questions that concern all of us at the start of the new century and will be of particular interest to sociologists, social and political theorists, cultural studies students and related disciplines.