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Degree Programme Table: Social Research (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCSORES1F)

Jump to: Year 1

Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Notes:
Course choices should be confirmed with your Programme Director or Personal Tutor.
You will be required to show that your choices reflect an appropriate breadth of interest.

Not all electives may run in any given year and places may be limited.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Core quantitative data analysis 1 and 2
SCIL11009 20 credits
Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection
PGSP11016 20 credits
Research Design
PGSP11208 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Specialist Courses - Social Research

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
Listening to Children: Research and Consultation
PGSP11012 20 credits
Explanation and Understanding in Social and Political Research
PGSP11017 20 credits
Comparative Analysis of Social and Public Policy
PGSP11104 20 credits
Analysing Qualitative Data
PGSP11110 20 credits
Qualitative Methods and Ethnographic Fieldwork
PGSP11188 20 credits
The Documents of Life
PGSP11302 20 credits
Intermediate inferential statistics: testing and modelling
PGSP11321 20 credits
Evaluation Research Methods
PGSP11373 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
PGSP11424 20 credits
Applied Demography
PGSP11485 20 credits
Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences
PGSP11486 20 credits
Longitudinal Data Analysis
PGSP11487 20 credits
Social Network Research: Theories and Analysis
SCIL11042 20 credits
AND

Level 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
Courses in this collection can only be taken with permission from the Programme Director.
AND

Group B

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Dissertation (MSc/Dip Social Research)

Select exactly 60 credits of the following courses
Dissertation (MSc/Dip Social Research)
PGSP11057 60 credits
OR

Work-based dissertation (Social Research)

Select exactly 60 credits of the following courses
Work-based dissertation (Social Research)
PGSP11407 60 credits
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