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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: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Must be passed

SCAN08013 20 credits
Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Must be passed

SCAN08012 20 credits
Sociology 1a: The Sociological Imagination

Must be passed

SCIL08016 20 credits
Sociology 1b: Individuals and Society

Must be passed

SCIL08018 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 consider whether to take Introduction to Statistics for Social Science or another 20 credit optional course. Passing Introduction to Statistics for Social Science will exempt students from taking Doing Survey Research in year 3.
Introduction to Statistics for Social Science
SSPS08008 20 credits
AND

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

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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 to Q, S, T, W and Y

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.

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
Sociology Project Preparation Course
SCIL10091 0 credits

Course options

Dissertation Preparation

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students taking the Dissertation in Social Anthropology in year 4 should enrol on Imagining Anthropological Research.
Imagining Anthropological Research
SCAN10037 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
Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
AFRI10003 20 credits
Gender and Media in the Arab World
IMES10085 20 credits
Muslims in Europe
IMES10098 20 credits
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia
IMES10106 20 credits
International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World
IMES10108 20 credits
Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context
IMES10110 20 credits
Punishment and Society
LAWS10057 40 credits
Criminologies of Atrocity
LAWS10218 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 20 credits
Social Theory
SCIL10018 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
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
Race And Ethnicity
SCIL10071 20 credits
Sociology of Emotions
SCIL10072 20 credits
Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries
SCIL10077 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
Sociology of Freedom
SCIL10093 20 credits
The Modern Self and Art
SCIL10094 20 credits
Diversities: Canada and Beyond
SCIL10096 20 credits
Social Demography
SCIL10097 20 credits
Social Inequality and the Life Course
SCPL10020 20 credits
Race, Power, and Social Policy
SCPL10043 20 credits
Drug Policy and the Public Good
SHSS10011 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Cases in Sustainable Development
SSPS10014 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
Researching Contemporary Britain using Longitudinal Data
SSPS10028 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 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.
Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
AFRI10003 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
Advanced Issues in the Political Economy of Development
AFRI10005 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 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
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Himalayan Ethnography
SCAN10049 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
Anthropology of Displacement and Migration
SCAN10077 20 credits
The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South
SCAN10078 20 credits
Anthropology of East Asia
SCAN10087 20 credits
War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives
SCAN10089 20 credits
Anthropologists Read the News
SCAN10091 20 credits
Digital Global Development
SCAN10092 20 credits
Anthropology in Practice
SCAN10093 20 credits
Generation and Inheritance: Anthropological Concepts
SCAN10094 20 credits
Anthropology of Race and Racism
SCAN10097 20 credits
Spectacles and Crowds: anthropology through publics
SCAN10098 20 credits
Anthropology & Psychoanalysis
SCAN10099 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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
Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
AFRI10003 20 credits
Gender and Media in the Arab World
IMES10085 20 credits
Muslims in Europe
IMES10098 20 credits
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia
IMES10106 20 credits
International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World
IMES10108 20 credits
Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context
IMES10110 20 credits
Punishment and Society
LAWS10057 40 credits
Criminologies of Atrocity
LAWS10218 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 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
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
Race And Ethnicity
SCIL10071 20 credits
Sociology of Emotions
SCIL10072 20 credits
Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries
SCIL10077 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
Sociology of Freedom
SCIL10093 20 credits
The Modern Self and Art
SCIL10094 20 credits
Diversities: Canada and Beyond
SCIL10096 20 credits
Social Demography
SCIL10097 20 credits
Social Inequality and the Life Course
SCPL10020 20 credits
Race, Power, and Social Policy
SCPL10043 20 credits
Drug Policy and the Public Good
SHSS10011 20 credits
Contemporary Feminist Debates
SSPS10001 20 credits
Cases in Sustainable Development
SSPS10014 20 credits
Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science
SSPS10024 20 credits
Statistical Modelling
SSPS10027 20 credits
Researching Contemporary Britain using Longitudinal Data
SSPS10028 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 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
Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
AFRI10003 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
Advanced Issues in the Political Economy of Development
AFRI10005 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 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
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Himalayan Ethnography
SCAN10049 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
Anthropology of Displacement and Migration
SCAN10077 20 credits
The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South
SCAN10078 20 credits
Anthropology of East Asia
SCAN10087 20 credits
War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives
SCAN10089 20 credits
Anthropologists Read the News
SCAN10091 20 credits
Digital Global Development
SCAN10092 20 credits
Anthropology in Practice
SCAN10093 20 credits
Generation and Inheritance: Anthropological Concepts
SCAN10094 20 credits
Anthropology of Race and Racism
SCAN10097 20 credits
Spectacles and Crowds: anthropology through publics
SCAN10098 20 credits
Anthropology & Psychoanalysis
SCAN10099 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
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