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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
All taught courses in this programme are compulsory. Exceptionally, with permission of the Programme Director, one of the courses can be substituted with a more advanced Research Training Course.

ESRC Funded students:
Please note that students with ESRC funding will be required to take the following ESRC accredited research training courses:

1.Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection - PGSP11016
2.Core Quantitative Data Analysis - SCIL11009
3.SGSSS Core: Becoming a Confident Social Science Researcher -PGSP11631

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
ESRC Funded students:
Please note that students with ESRC funding will be required to take the following ESRC accredited research training courses:

1.Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection - PGSP11016
2.Core Quantitative Data Analysis - SCIL11009
3.SGSSS Core: Becoming a Confident Social Science Researcher -PGSP11631

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

Course options

Dissertation Courses - MScR SPS

Select exactly 120 credits of the following courses
Notes:
You will be allocated to one of these dissertation courses depending on your project and the Subject Area of your supervisor.

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