MSc in Social Research Methods
Full-year programme.
Part 1: Social Research Methods. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown.
Part 2: Disciplinary streams. Students must take courses to the value of one full unit in one of the ten streams as shown.
Part 1 Social Research Methods | ||
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Paper |
Course number and title | |
1 |
Two of the following: | |
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Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (H) | |
Applied Regression Analysis (H) | ||
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Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (H) or courses in Statistics to the value of one full unit § | |
2 |
Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (H) and | |
Qualitative Social Research: Interview, Text and Image (H) | ||
3 |
Dissertation (August) | |
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Notes |
§ means by special permission only. | |
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Part 2 Disciplinary Streams | ||
Sociology | ||
Courses to the value of one full unit from the following: | ||
Doing Ethnography (H) | ||
Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) | ||
Politics and Society | ||
Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Gender and Societies (H) | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Social Psychology | ||
Courses to the value of one full unit from the following: | ||
The Audience in Media and Communications (H) | ||
Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) | ||
Organisational Social Psychology | ||
Current Communication Research (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
The Social Psychology of Economic Life (H) | ||
Health Communication (H) | ||
Issues in Social Psychology: Group Dynamics (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Science, Technology and Resistance (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Societal Psychology (H) | ||
Organisational and Social Decision Making (H) | ||
Psychoanalysis and Communication (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Social Influence (H) | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Philosophy | ||
Courses to the value of one full unit from the following: | ||
Philosophy of Science | ||
Philosophy of the Social Sciences | ||
Philosophy of Economics | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Social Policy | ||
Social Policy Research | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Statistics | ||
Any approved Graduate level courses in Statistics to the value of one unit, for example: | ||
Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Advanced Regression Modelling (H) | ||
Survey Methodology (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (H) | ||
Multilevel Modelling (H) | ||
Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation | ||
Longitudinal Data Analysis (H) | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Decision and Policy Sciences | ||
Any half unit in MSc Decision Sciences, subject to timetabling constraints, and as approved by the course tutor. | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Government | ||
Any Graduate level course(s) in Government, subject to timetabling constraints, and as approved by the course tutor, to the value of one full unit. | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Development Studies | ||
Any Graduate level course(s) in Development Studies, subject to timetabling constraints, and as approved by the course tutor, to the value of one full unit. | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Management | ||
Any Graduate level course(s) in Management, subject to timetabling constraints, and as approved by the course tutor, to the value of one full unit. | ||
Courses to the value of one unit from the Methodology options list (below) | ||
Population | ||
One compulsory half unit: | ||
Population Analysis: Methods and Models (H) | ||
One half unit from the following: | ||
Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (H) | ||
Gender and European Welfare States (H) | ||
Gender, Population and Policy (H) | ||
Planning for Population and Development (H) | ||
Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (H) | ||
Demographic Change and Development (H) | ||
Social Epidemiology (H) | ||
Global Health and Population Change (H) | ||
Methodology options list | ||
Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (H) | ||
Qualitative Research Methods (H) | ||
Doing Ethnography (H) | ||
Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) | ||
Qualitative Text Analysis (H) | ||
Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (H) | ||
Applied Regression Analysis (H) | ||
Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (H) | ||
Survey Methodology (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (H) | ||
Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis (H) | ||
Workshop in Advanced Quantitative Analysis (H) | ||
Or any other course approved by the tutor * | ||
Notes | ||
* means by special permission only | ||
