DPT: Social Policy and Sociology (MA Hons) (UTSOPSO)

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

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

Compulsory courses

Social Policy and Society

Must be passed

Politics of the Welfare State

Must be passed

Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society

Must be passed

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

Must be passed

Course options

Understanding Public Policy

Rethinking Economics and the Financial Crisis

AND

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

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

Compulsory courses

European Social Policy

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Evidence, Politics and Policy

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Understanding Public Policy

Rethinking Economics and the Financial Crisis

AND

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

We carefully and continuously are monitoring the Covid-19 situation to adjust our provisions accordingly. Some alterations to the normal course of study may therefore be implemented.
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 are not required and not allowed to take Doing Survey Research if they have already taken and passed Introduction to Statistics for Social Science or Introduction to Political Data Analysis.

Compulsory courses

Social Theory

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy

Course options

Students planning on taking the Sociology Project in year 4 should enrol on Sociology Project Preparation Course.

Sociology Project Preparation Course

AND

Children's Rights: Policy and Practice

Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy

Global Politics of Public Health

Political Work

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Educational Politics and Policy

Social Inequality and the Life Course

Governing The Social

Labour Market Policy in Europe

Population Health and Health Policy

Health Systems: Strengthening and Reform

Health Systems Analysis

Infectious Disease and Global Governance

Digesting Food Policy

Applied Demographic Analysis

Political Economy of Work and Welfare

Armed Force and Society

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Using pre-existing data for your own research

AND

Muslims in Europe

Punishment and Society

Sentencing and Judicial Culture

Criminologies of Atrocity

Social Demography

Social Theory

Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change

Intimate Relationships

Sociology of the Environment and Risk

Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice

Sociology of Intoxication

Religion and Society

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Popular Music, Technology and Society

Nations and Nationalism

Globalization

Migration: social origins and social consequences

South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy

Race And Ethnicity

Sociology of Emotions

Gender, Marginality and Social Change

China's Contemporary Transformations

Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries

Digital Culture

Contemporary Issues in Sociology

The social life of food

Responding to sustainability challenges: critical debates

Sociology of the Arts

The Sociology of Sex Work

Finance and Society

Topics in Social Theory

Sociology of Illicit Markets and Criminal Organisations

Refugees and Humanitarianism

The future of our university: an interdisciplinary experiment in cooperative learning (Honours)

Social Inequality and the Life Course

Applied Demographic Analysis

Sport, Media and Society

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Cases in Sustainable Development

Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists

Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science

Social and Political Science in Practice

Statistical Modelling

Analysing Social Networks with Statistics

Using pre-existing data for your own research

The Internet and Society

Armed Force and Society

Energy Policy and Sustainability

Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment

Knowledge, Expertise and Policy

Gender and Environment

Sociology of Medicine

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

We carefully and continuously are monitoring the Covid-19 situation to adjust our provisions accordingly. Some alterations to the normal course of study may therefore be implemented.

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