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Degree Programme Table: Sociology and Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTSCYSA)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

Notes:
After enrolling on your courses, please be sure to meet with your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society

Must be passed

SCIL08004 20 credits
Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems

Must be passed

SCIL08005 20 credits
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Must be passed

SCAN08013 20 credits
Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Must be passed

SCAN08012 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Introduction to Statistics for Social Science

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students should discuss with their PT whether to take Introduction to Statistics for Social Science or another 20 credit optional course.
Introduction to Statistics for Social Science
SSPS08008 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 2 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours.
Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

SCIL08012 20 credits
Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

SCIL08013 20 credits
Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

SCAN08005 20 credits
Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

SCAN08011 20 credits

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 3 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students who have passed either Introduction to Statistics for Social Science (SSPS08008) or Doing Social Research with Statistics (SSPS08007) are not required to take Doing Survey Research (SCIL10063) and should take a Sociology Honours Option course instead. Students who have not taken Introduction to Statistics (SSPS08008) or Doing Social Research with Statistics (SSSPS08007) must take Doing Survey Research (SCIL10063) as compulsory course.

Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Students intending to take the Social Anthropology Dissertation in Year 4 must be enrolled on Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) in Year 3.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Social Theory
SCIL10018 20 credits
Designing and Doing Social Research
SCIL10062 20 credits
Doing Survey Research
SCIL10063 20 credits

Course options

Dissertation Preparation

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students planning on taking the Sociology Project in year 4 should enrol on Sociology Project Preparation Course

Students taking the Dissertation in Social Anthropology in year 4 should enrol on Imagining Anthropological Research.
Imagining Anthropological Research
SCAN10037 0 credits
Sociology Project Preparation Course
SCIL10091 0 credits
AND

3rd Year Core Courses - Social Anthropology

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Sociology Year 3 Electives

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Muslims in Europe
IMES10098 20 credits
Punishment and Society
LAWS10057 40 credits
Sentencing and Judicial Culture
LAWS10217 20 credits
Criminologies of Atrocity
LAWS10218 20 credits
Social Demography
SCIL10006 20 credits
Social Theory
SCIL10018 20 credits
Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change
SCIL10020 20 credits
Intimate Relationships
SCIL10023 20 credits
Sociology of the Environment and Risk
SCIL10024 20 credits
Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice
SCIL10047 20 credits
Sociology of Intoxication
SCIL10054 20 credits
Religion and Society
SCIL10058 20 credits
Designing and Doing Social Research
SCIL10062 20 credits
Doing Survey Research
SCIL10063 20 credits
Popular Music, Technology and Society
SCIL10064 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
Globalization
SCIL10067 20 credits
Migration: social origins and social consequences
SCIL10068 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SCIL10070 20 credits
Race And Ethnicity
SCIL10071 20 credits
Sociology of Emotions
SCIL10072 20 credits
Gender, Marginality and Social Change
SCIL10073 20 credits
China's Contemporary Transformations
SCIL10076 20 credits
Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries
SCIL10077 20 credits
Digital Culture
SCIL10079 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Sociology
SCIL10080 20 credits
The social life of food
SCIL10081 20 credits
Responding to sustainability challenges: critical debates
SCIL10082 20 credits
Sociology of the Arts
SCIL10083 20 credits
The Sociology of Sex Work
SCIL10085 20 credits
Finance and Society
SCIL10086 20 credits
Topics in Social Theory
SCIL10087 20 credits
Sociology of Illicit Markets and Criminal Organisations
SCIL10089 20 credits
Refugees and Humanitarianism
SCIL10090 20 credits
The future of our university: an interdisciplinary experiment in cooperative learning (Honours)
SCIL10092 20 credits
Social Inequality and the Life Course
SCPL10020 20 credits
Applied Demographic Analysis
SCPL10037 20 credits
Sport, Media and Society
SPRT10021 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Cases in Sustainable Development
SSPS10014 20 credits
Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists
SSPS10016 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Social and Political Science in Practice
SSPS10026 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
Analysing Social Networks with Statistics
SSPS10029 20 credits
Using pre-existing data for your own research
SSPS10030 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Armed Force and Society
STIS10005 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Knowledge, Expertise and Policy
STIS10010 20 credits
Gender and Environment
STIS10012 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
OR

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students wishing to take Culture and Power (SCAN10030) are encouraged to do so in Year 4.
The Invention of History
SCAN10010 20 credits
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
SCAN10043 20 credits
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America
SCAN10047 20 credits
Humans and Other Species
SCAN10057 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
The Anthropology of Africa
SCAN10067 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
South Asian Public Culture: Keywords
SCAN10071 20 credits
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South
SCAN10078 20 credits
The Anthropology of Games and Play
SCAN10079 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
SCAN10080 20 credits
Demystifying Money
SCAN10081 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Migration
SCAN10085 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students intending to take the Social Anthropology Dissertation must have taken Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) in Year 3.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

4TH YEAR DISSERTATIONS - Sociology and Social Anthropology (MA)-Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Whether taking the Sociology Project or the Social Anthropology Dissertation, students are expected to use part of the summer vacation of their third year on research for it.
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
SCAN10036 40 credits
Sociology Project
SCIL10045 40 credits
AND

Sociology Year 4

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Muslims in Europe
IMES10098 20 credits
Punishment and Society
LAWS10057 40 credits
Sentencing and Judicial Culture
LAWS10217 20 credits
Criminologies of Atrocity
LAWS10218 20 credits
Social Demography
SCIL10006 20 credits
Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change
SCIL10020 20 credits
Intimate Relationships
SCIL10023 20 credits
Sociology of the Environment and Risk
SCIL10024 20 credits
The Project Presentation
SCIL10037 20 credits
Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice
SCIL10047 20 credits
Sociology of Intoxication
SCIL10054 20 credits
Religion and Society
SCIL10058 20 credits
Popular Music, Technology and Society
SCIL10064 20 credits
Nations and Nationalism
SCIL10065 20 credits
Globalization
SCIL10067 20 credits
Migration: social origins and social consequences
SCIL10068 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SCIL10070 20 credits
Race And Ethnicity
SCIL10071 20 credits
Sociology of Emotions
SCIL10072 20 credits
Gender, Marginality and Social Change
SCIL10073 20 credits
China's Contemporary Transformations
SCIL10076 20 credits
Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries
SCIL10077 20 credits
Digital Culture
SCIL10079 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Sociology
SCIL10080 20 credits
The social life of food
SCIL10081 20 credits
Responding to sustainability challenges: critical debates
SCIL10082 20 credits
Sociology of the Arts
SCIL10083 20 credits
The Sociology of Sex Work
SCIL10085 20 credits
Finance and Society
SCIL10086 20 credits
Topics in Social Theory
SCIL10087 20 credits
Sociology of Illicit Markets and Criminal Organisations
SCIL10089 20 credits
Refugees and Humanitarianism
SCIL10090 20 credits
The future of our university: an interdisciplinary experiment in cooperative learning (Honours)
SCIL10092 20 credits
Social Inequality and the Life Course
SCPL10020 20 credits
Applied Demographic Analysis
SCPL10037 20 credits
Sport, Media and Society
SPRT10021 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists
SSPS10016 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Social and Political Science in Practice
SSPS10026 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
Researching Contemporary Britain using Longitudinal Data
SSPS10028 20 credits
Analysing Social Networks with Statistics
SSPS10029 20 credits
Using pre-existing data for your own research
SSPS10030 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Armed Force and Society
STIS10005 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Knowledge, Expertise and Policy
STIS10010 20 credits
Gender and Environment
STIS10012 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
AND

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
The Invention of History
SCAN10010 20 credits
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
SCAN10043 20 credits
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America
SCAN10047 20 credits
Humans and Other Species
SCAN10057 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
The Anthropology of Africa
SCAN10067 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
South Asian Public Culture: Keywords
SCAN10071 20 credits
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South
SCAN10078 20 credits
The Anthropology of Games and Play
SCAN10079 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
SCAN10080 20 credits
Demystifying Money
SCAN10081 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Migration
SCAN10085 20 credits
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