University of Manchester

This course develops a multi-disciplinary understanding of drugs in the UK and elsewhere by enabling students to apply sociological, criminological, historical, psychological and cultural perspectives to the study of drug use, and policy responses to this "social problem."  Students seek to understand why people take and sell drugs, how drug use is understood within societies, and how societies respond.  

This course uses ethnographic case studies to examine how interactions between people, societies, and systems generate health or illness and wellbeing or illbeing in a range of contexts. The course explores the ways in which health and wellbeing articulate with politics and inequality. 

This course critically examines notions of globalization, and in particular economic globalization. This course will allow students to develop an understanding of the global scale of human activity with a particular emphasis on the economic dimension, as well develop an understanding of how the world is shaped by the interaction between economic, political, social, and cultural processes operating at different, but connected, geographical scales, from the global through the national to the local.