MSc in Sociology
Programme Code: TMSO
Department: Sociology
For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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 |
SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5) or | |
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SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5) | |
Papers 2 & 3 |
Courses to the value of 2.5 unit(s) from the following: | |
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SO407 Politics and Society (1.0) | |
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SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5) | |
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SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) | |
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SO451 Cities by Design (0.5) | |
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SO454 Families and Inequalities (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5) | |
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SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5) | |
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SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration (0.5) | |
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SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO473 Crime, Control and the City (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5) | |
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SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5) | |
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SO489 Family and International Migration (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5) | |
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SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5) | |
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SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5) | |
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SO4B6 Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5) | |
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SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5) | |
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SO4C4 Global Mobilities: International Migration (0.5) | |
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SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5) | |
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SO4D1 Economic Sociology (1.0) | |
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SO4D2 Modern Personhoods and Identitarian Thought (0.5) | |
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Any of the MSc courses offered in any department or institute at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ if they are relevant to the programme of study, and subject to the approval of both Programme Director and course teacher. Options taken outside the department should not normally exceed the value of 0.5. | |
Paper 4 |
SO499 MSc in Sociology Dissertation (1.0) | |
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