MA German and Sociology (5 years)
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 German. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students spend the entire third year abroad in Germany or Austria as a teaching assistant or visiting student.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Sociology II: Systems of Power
- Introduction to Sociology I: Self, Identity & Society
- German for Beginners 1
- German for Beginners 2
- Background to German for Beginners 1
- German Language 1
- German Language 2
- Modern German Culture 1
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Modern German Culture 3
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Sociology of Everyday Life i: the Embodied Self
- Sociology of Everyday Life II: Global Issues in the 21st Century
- German Language (Advanced Introductory) 1
- German Language (Advanced Introductory) 2
- German Language 3
- German Language 4
- German Junior Honours Language Study
- Thinking Sociologically
- Social Research Methods
- Sociology of Religion
- Ten Sociological Studies
- German Language Study for Senior Honours
- Dissertation in German
- 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
- More Than Human
- Extreme Right in Western Europe
- International Migration and Europe
- Understanding and Responding to Organised Crime
- Social Inequality