MSc in Sociology

Programme code: TMSO

Department: Sociology

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three units and write a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO491

Quantitative Social Research Methods (H) or

 

SO492

Qualitative Social Research Methods (H)

2 & 3

Courses to the value of 2.5 units from the following:

GV479

Nationalism (not available 2017/18)

SO407

Politics and Society

SO424

Approaches to Human Rights

SO425

Regulation, Risk and Economic Life

SO426

Classical Social Thought (H)

SO427

Modern Social Thought (H) 

SO430

Economic Sociology (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO451

Cities by Design (H)

SO454

Families and Inequalities (H)

SO457

Political Reconciliation (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO458

Gender and Societies (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO468

International Migration and Migrant Integration (H)

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

SO470

The Sociology of Markets (H)

SO471

Technology, Power and Culture (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO473

Crime, Control and the City (H)

SO475

Material Culture and Design (H)

SO477

Urban Social Theory (H)

SO481

Class, Politics and Culture (H)

SO482

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (H) (not available 2017/18)

SO483

Social Change Organizations (H)

SO489

Family and Migration (H)

SO490

Contemporary Social Thought (H)

SO491

Quantitative Social Research Methods (H) (if not taken under Paper 1)

SO492

Qualitative Social Research Methods (H) (if not taken under Paper 1)

4

SO499

Dissertation

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