MA Language & Linguistics and Sociology
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 Linguistics. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students complete an independent dissertation or research project in their final year.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Sociology I: Self, Identity & Society
- Introduction to Sociology II: Systems of Power
- Language Structure and use
- Living Language
- English Past and Present
- Sociology of Everyday Life i: the Embodied Self
- Sociology of Everyday Life II: Global Issues in the 21st Century
- Language in Society
- Elements of English
- Thinking Sociologically
- Social Research Methods
- Sociology of Religion
- Ten Sociological Studies
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics
- 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