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Sociology and Social Research MA

Postgraduate

In Newcastle Upon Tyne ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

Profile Our Sociology and Social Research MA provides specialist research training. The course provides high-quality research training to enhance key skills and employability. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) recognise it as offering the requisite skills training for preparation for a PhD.      

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Sociology
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

Modules Compulsory modules
  • HSS8001 Thinking about Research
  • HSS8002 Information Skills
  • HSS8003 Dissertation Preparation
  • HSS8004 Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • HSS8005 Introduction to Quantitative Methods
  • SOC8096 Dissertation
  • SOC8034 Social Divisions and Inequality
  • SOC8036 Sociology and Cultural Perspectives
  • SOC8044 Being, Belonging and Identity
  • SOC8047 States,Markets and Social Transformation

Optional modules

You will take 10 credits from the following list:

  • SOC8045 Environment, Environmentalism and Society
  • SOC8048 Visual Sociologies

You may use the following module to replace modules in the optional list above with the agreement of the DPD

  • LAS8109 Latin American Country Case Study: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Modules might change for your year of entry.


Entry Requirements

A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a sociology/policy discipline such as:

  • criminology
  • organisational studies
  • cultural studies; media studies
  • film studies
  • human geography

Sociology and Social Research MA

Price on request