MA Sociology and Spanish & Latin American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in Sociology and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Language & Translation. As an integral part of the four-year degree, students spend half of the third year abroad in a Spanish-speaking country as a teaching assistant or visiting student, and complete a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Spanish Language 2
- Spanish Language 3
- Spain and Spanish America: History, Culture, Politics
- Introduction to Sociology I: Self, Identity & Society
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Introduction to Sociology II: Systems of Power
- Sociology of Everyday Life i: the Embodied Self
- Latin America: Texts and Contexts
- Spanish Language 4
- Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)
- Thinking Sociologically
- Sociology of Religion
- Social Research Methods
- Ten Sociological Studies
- Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)
- Dissertation in Spanish
- Research Project Part 1
- Research Project Part 2
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- Global Challenges in an Ethnographic Perspective
- Gendered Approaches to Conflict and Society
- Comparative Constitutional Systems
- Emotion, Self and Society
- The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights
- Extreme Right in Western Europe
- International Migration and Europe
- Understanding and Responding to Organised Crime
- Politics and Religion
- Social Inequality