MSc in Sociology

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Programme Code: TMSO

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

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.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1
	One from the following: SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)
	SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

Papers 2 & 3
	Courses to the value of 2.5 unit(s) from the following: SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)
	SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)
	SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO430 Economic Sociology (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)
	SO451 Cities by Design (0.5)
	SO454 Families and Inequalities (0.5)
	SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5)
	SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration (0.5)
	SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5)
	SO473 Crime, Control and the City (0.5)
	SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)
	SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO489 Family and International Migration (0.5)
	SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)
	SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)
	SO4B6 Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)
	SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5)

Paper 4	SO499 MSc in Sociology Dissertation (1.0)

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