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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2016/2017

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Degree Programme Table: Economics and Sociology (MA Hons) (UTECNSO)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ECNM08013 Economics 1 Full Year 40
    SCIL08004 Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society Semester 1 20
    SCIL08005 Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:Level 7 courses may be taken with the permission of your Personal Tutor subject to a maximum of 40 credits over years 1 and 2.
     


    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ECNM08006 Economics 2 Full Year 40
    SCIL08012 Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically Semester 1 20
    ECNM08016 Statistical Methods for Economics Semester 1 20
    SCIL08013 Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:EXCLUDING: CMSE08002 Business Research Methods I: Quantitative Techniques.

    Level 7 courses may be taken with the permission of your Personal Tutor subject to a maximum of 40 credits over years 1 and 2

     


    Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry into third year normally requires (i) passes in all courses (240 credits) in the first two years,(ii) a mark of 50% or above in Economics 2 at the first attempt, (iii) a pass in Statistical Methods for Economics and (iv) satisfaction of Sociology Honours requirements as specified by the School.

    Students who spend their third year abroad at a partner university must complete and pass a full years diet of examinable subjects (equivalent to 120 credits), all of which must be in Economics and Sociology. Students must complete and pass equivalent courses to the year 3 compulsory courses.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ECNM10070 Topics in Microeconomics Semester 1 20
    ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics Semester 1 20
    SCIL10018 Social Theory Semester 1 20
    SCIL10062 Designing and Doing Social Research Semester 1 20
    SCIL10063 Doing Survey Research Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECNM10056    Applications of Econometrics   20  
    ECNM10069    Topics in Macroeconomics   20  

    Notes:Applications of Econometrics will be a pre-requisite course for Economics of Financial Markets in 2017-18. If you are considering taking Economics of Financial Markets in Year 4, you should select Applications of Econometrics in Year 3.
     


    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Degree Classification Weighting is based on 240 credits: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper.
    For students who entered 3rd year in 2015-16, the following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based (papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice).
    From third year: 1) Topics in Microeconomics 2) Essentials of Econometrics 3) Topics in Macroeconomics 4) Social Theory 5) Designing and Doing Social Research 6) Doing Survey Research
    From Fourth year: 7) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 8) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 9) Economics Honours option 10) Economics Honours option 11) Sociology Honours option 12) Sociology Honours option

    For students who are entering 3rd year in 2016-17, the following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based (papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice).
    From third year: 1) Topics in Microeconomics 2) Essentials of Econometrics 3) Topics in Macroeconomics OR Applications of Econometrics 4) Social Theory 5) Designing and Doing Social Research 6) Doing Survey Research
    From Fourth year: 7) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 8) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 9) Economics Honours option 10) Economics Honours option 11) Sociology Honours option 12) Sociology Honours option

    Degree Classification Weighting for students who spent their third year abroad is based on 120 credits: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper.
    For students who spent their 3rd year abroad in 2015-16, the following are the six 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based (papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
    From Fourth year: 1) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 2) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 3) Economics Honours option 4) Economics Honours option 5) Sociology Honours option 6) Sociology Honours option

    For students who are spending their 3rd year abroad in 2016-17, the following are the six 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based (papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
    From Fourth year: 1) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 2) Economics Honours Dissertation or Sociology Project 3) Economics Honours option 4) Economics Honours option 5) Sociology Honours option 6) Sociology Honours option

    Students who spent their third year abroad at a partner university must have completed and passed a full years diet of examinable subjects (equivalent to 120 credits), all of which must have been in Economics and Sociology. Students must take third year courses for which they did not take suitable substitutes on their year abroad.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECNM10030    Economics Honours Dissertation   40  
    SCIL10045    Sociology Project   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10033    Armed Force and Society   20  
    SSPS10001    Contemporary Feminist Debates   20  
    LAWS10104    Criminology 1   20  
    SCIL10067    Globalization   20  
    SCIL10065    Nations and Nationalism   20  
    SCIL10037    The Project Presentation   20  
    SCIL10072    Sociology of Emotions   20  
    SPRT10021    Sport, Media and Society   20  
    SCIL10056    The Internet and Society   20  
    LAWS10059    Gender and Justice   40  
    LAWS10148    Gender and Justice 1   20  
    SCIL10081    The social life of food   20  
    SCIL10077    Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries   20  
    LAWS10057    Punishment and Society   40  
    SCIL10022    Gender Science and Technology   20  
    SSPS10029    Analysing Social Networks with Statistics   20  
    SCIL10076    China's Contemporary Transformations   20  
    SCIL10068    Migration: social origins and social consequences   20  
    SCIL10020    Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change   20  
    SCIL10047    Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice   20  
    SCIL10083    Sociology of the Arts   20  
    SCIL10024    Sociology of the Environment and Risk   20  
    SCIL10073    Gender, Marginality and Social Change   20  
    SCSU10004    Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment   20  
    SCIL10016    Medical Sociology   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECNM10056    Applications of Econometrics   20  
    ECNM10066    Behavioural Economics   20  
    ECNM10061    Development Economics   20  
    ECNM10020    Economics of Financial Markets   20  
    ECNM10068    Economics of Sport   20  
    ECNM10036    Economics of Transition   20  
    ECNM10018    History of Economic Thought   40  
    ECNM10025    History of Economic Thought 1   20  
    ECNM10026    History of Economic Thought 2   20  
    ECNM10013    Economics of Strategic Behaviour   40  
    ECNM10032    Economics of Strategic Behaviour 1   20  
    ECNM10022    Natural Resource and Environmental Economics   20  
    ECNM10074    Economics of the Family   20  
    ECNM10024    Monetary Theory and Policy   20  
    ECNM10080    The Economics of Crime   20  
    ECNM10079    The Chinese Economy: Past and Present   20  
    ECNM10077    Issues in Climate Change Economics   20  
    ECNM10078    Modelling the Financial Crisis and its Aftermath   20  
    ECNM10007    Economics of Self-Management   20  
    ECNM10069    Topics in Macroeconomics   20  
    ECNM10081    Economics of Inequality   20  
    ECNM10084    Policy Evaluation for Public Economics   20  
    ECNM10085    Advanced Mathematical Economics   20  
    ECNM10086    The Economics of Cities and Regions   20  
    ECNM10087    International Economics   20  
    ECNM10088    Productivity, Growth and Development   20  
    ECNM10089    Economics of Migration   20  
    ECNM10083    Economics of Asymmetric Information   20  
    ECNM10090    Experimental Economics   20  

     


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