DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

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Sociology

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCIL07002		Data Literacy	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 08 (9 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCIL08017	SV1	Invitation to Sociology	Semester 1	20
SCIL08004		Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL08005		Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL08016	SS1	Sociology 1a: The Sociological Imagination	Semester 1	20
SCIL08018	SV1	Sociology 1b: Individuals and Society	Semester 2	20
SCIL08012	SV1	Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically	Semester 1	20
SCIL08013	SV1	Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life	Semester 2	20
SCIL08008	SV1	Sustainable Development 1a: Introducing Sustainable Development	Semester 1	20
SCIL08009	SV1	Sustainable Development 2a: Perspectives on Sustainable Development	Semester 2	20

SCQF Level 10 (37 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCIL10098		Advanced Quantitative Methods Research	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10101	SV1	Algorithms, AI and Society	Semester 2	20
SCIL10080		Contemporary Issues in Sociology	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10062	SV1	Designing and Doing Social Research	Semester 1	20
SCIL10079	SV1	Digital Culture	Semester 2	20
SCIL10096	SV1	Diversities: Canada and Beyond	Semester 2	20
SCIL10063	SV1	Doing Survey Research	Semester 2	20
SCIL10077		Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10073		Gender, Marginality and Social Change	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10067	SV1	Globalization	Semester 2	20
SCIL10023	SV1	Intimate Relationships	Semester 2	20
SCIL10100	SV1	Media, AI and Memory	Semester 2	20
SCIL10068	SV1	Migration: social origins and social consequences	Semester 2	20
SCIL10065	SV1	Nations and Nationalism	Semester 1	20
SCIL10064		Popular Music, Technology and Society	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10071	SV1	Race And Ethnicity	Semester 1	20
SCIL10102	SV1	Reading Bourdieu on Culture and Society	Semester 2	20
SCIL10058	SV1	Religion and Society	Semester 2	20
SCIL10082		Responding to sustainability challenges: critical debates	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10047		Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10097	SV1	Social Demography	Semester 1	20
SCIL10018	SV1	Social Theory	Semester 1	20
SCIL10045	SS1	Sociology Project	Semester 1	40
SCIL10091	SS1	Sociology Project Preparation Course	Full Year	0
SCIL10072	SV1	Sociology of Emotions	Semester 1	20
SCIL10093	SV1	Sociology of Freedom	Semester 2	20
SCIL10089		Sociology of Illicit Markets and Criminal Organisations	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10054		Sociology of Intoxication	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10083	SV1	Sociology of the Arts	Semester 2	20
SCIL10024		Sociology of the Environment and Risk	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL10099	SS1	Sustainability Challenges: Critical Debates	Semester 2	20
SCIL10094	SV1	The Modern Self and Art	Semester 2	20
SCIL10081	SV1	The social life of food	Semester 2	20
SSPS10001	SV1	Contemporary Feminist Debates	Semester 1	20
IMES10098	SV1	Muslims in Europe	Semester 1	20
SCPL10020	SV1	Social Inequality and the Life Course	Semester 1	20
SSPS10026		Social and Political Science in Practice	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 11 (37 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
SCIL11044	SV1	Anticolonial Social Theory and Global Thought	Semester 2	20
PGSP11580		Comparing Nationalisms	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL11045	SV1	Computational Methods and AI in Social Data Science	Semester 1	20
PGSP11583		Computational Sociology	Not delivered this year	20
PGSP11584	SV1	Computational Text Analysis	Semester 2	20
PGSP11276	SV1	Contemporary Social Theory	Semester 2	20
PGSP11600	SV1	Dissertation (MSc Digital Sociology)	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
PGSP11398	SS1	Dissertation (MSc in Sociology and Global Change)	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
PGSP11620		Dissertation (MSc/Dip Nationalism in Global Perspective)	Not delivered this year	60
PGSP11504	SS1	Dissertation MSc by Research Social and Political Science (Sociology)	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	120
SCIL11036	SV1	Ethnopolitical Conflict	Semester 2	20
PGSP11225	SV1	Gender and Development	Semester 2	20
PGSP11359	SV1	Global Environment and Society	Semester 1	20
SCIL11016	SV1	Globalization	Semester 2	20
PGSP11229	SV1	Intimate Relationships	Semester 2	20
PGSP11466	SV1	Issues and Concepts in Digital Society	Semester 1	20
SCIL11030	SV1	Key Concepts in Global Social Change	Semester 1	20
PGSP11608	SV1	Nationalism, Populism and Democracy	Semester 2	20
PGSP11146	SV1	Nations and Nationalism	Semester 1	20
PGSP11545	SV1	Placement-Based Dissertation (MSc Sociology and Global Change)	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
PGSP11469	SV1	Researching Digital Life	Semester 2	20
SCIL11029	SV1	Researching Global Social Change	Semester 2	20
PGSP11554	SS1	Sociology Postgraduate Research Seminar	Full Year	0
PGSP11367		Sociology of Emotions	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL11035	SV1	Sociology of the Arts	Semester 2	20
SCIL11027		Supervised Reading in Sociology & Socio-Cultural Studies	Not delivered this year	20
PGSP11579	SV1	Theorising Nationalism	Semester 1	20
SCIL11046	SV1	Varieties of the self	Semester 2	20
SCIL11043		Working with Feminist Theory	Not delivered this year	20
PGSP11452	SV1	Analysing Social Networks with Statistics	Semester 2	20
PGSP11017		Explanation and Understanding in Social and Political Research	Not delivered this year	20
PGSP11632	SV1	Latin America in Interdisciplinary Perspective	Semester 1	20
IMES11090	SS1	Muslims in Europe (PG Version)	Semester 1	20
PGSP11208		Research Design	Not delivered this year	20
EDUA11416	SV1	Social Inequalities in Education Worldwide	Semester 2	20
SCIL11042		Social Network Research: Theories and Analysis	Not delivered this year	20
SCIL11037		Sociological Theory for Social Research	Not delivered this year	20