DPT: Sociology with Quantitative Methods (MA Hons) (Full-time) (UTMAHSOCQM1F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

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

Mathematics for Social Science (SSPS08009) should normally be taken in Year 1 but can be taken in Year 2. Please talk to your Cohort Lead if you want to take this course in Year 2.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Statistics for Social Science

Must be passed

Sociology 1a: The Sociological Imagination

Must be passed

Sociology 1b: Individuals and Society

Must be passed

Mathematics for Social Science

Must be passed

Course options

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Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

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

Students who did not take Mathematics for Social Science (SSPS08009) in their 1st Year will be expected to do so in their 2nd Year.

Students should not take Introduction to Political Data Analysis.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Compulsory courses

Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically

Must be passed

Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life

Must be passed

Doing Social Research with Statistics

Must be passed

Course options

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students on with Quantitative Methods degrees must take Statistical Modelling in year 3 (or year 4 if on a year abroad). They must take at least two and no more than three quantitative electives across their third and fourth year.

Students who take a year abroad in year 3 will almost always take Statistical Modelling in year 4 and then must select at least one and no more than two quantitative electives

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Junior Year Abroad Students will be expected to find suitable equivalent courses for Designing and Doing Social Research and Social Theory that have been approved and signed by the Sociology Exchange Co-ordinator on their Learning Agreements. In cases where students have been unable to find equivalent courses, they must take at least ONE of these in year 4.