master's full-time single-subject, language of instruction: English
Included in the programme: FSS N-ESOC Sociology
Study-related information
- Parts of the final state examination and its contentThe final state examination consists of a defense of the final thesis and a discussion on the content of the key profile courses and key theoretical profile courses.
- Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended thesesSelected defended theses:
- Aleksandra Fedorenko: Generation Z and money: A customer-friendly journey into online banking among Russian and European users (https://is.muni.cz/th/wo0qy/)
- Kenneth Chang: Black Consciousness: A Case Study of Black Africans in the Czech Republic (https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/qq2qh/)
- Justice Munzvandi: The impact of intimacy: Examining experiences of young adults towards romantic relationships in Zimbabwe (https://is.muni.cz/th/ewewn/)
- Elisabeth Pedersen: Toward Transformative Care: ‘Caring Contentions’ in the London Catholic Worker Newsletters (https://is.muni.cz/th/tkvz0/)
- Bc. Margarita Yelisseyeva: ‘One Ethiopian Hand Brew, Please!’: Discovering Habitus of Specialty Coffee Connoisseurs (https://is.muni.cz/th/mjg9w/)
Recommended progress through the study plan
Diploma Thesis
Students register the Thesis Project after consultation with their supervisor. The Thesis Writing Seminar is registered after successful completion of the Thesis Project.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FSS:ESOn4000 | Thesis Project | z | 12 | 3 | Z |
FSS:ESOn4001 | Thesis Writing Seminar | z | 20 | 4 | Z |
32 credits |
Required courses (min. 24 ECTS)
Students choose one of the two offered compulsory methodological courses. If they want to take the second methodological course (ESOn4002 or ESOn4003), it is counted as an optional course.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FSS:ESOn4002 | Qualitative Text Analysis - Atlas.ti in Sociology | zk | 12 | 2 | Z |
FSS:ESOn4003 | Research Methodology in Sociology | zk | 12 | 1 | Z |
FSS:ESOn4004 | Contemporary Sociological Theory | zk | 12 | 2 | Z |
36 credits |
Selective courses
Students have to obtain 56 ECTS credits from compulsory courses and 64 ECTS from Selective courses (at least 10 ECTS credits from 1 of 3 Profile courses defined in advance in study plan). They obtain the remaining number of ECTS credits in Other courses. The total number of credits that students have to obtain to complete the Sociology program is 120 ECTS credits.
Profile courses
Students have to obtain minimum 10 ECTS.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FSS:ESOn4005 | Sociology of family | zk | 10 | 2 | P |
FSS:ESOn4006 | Social Stratification and Labour Market | zk | 10 | 1 | P |
FSS:ESOn4007 | Contemporary Migration Research | zk | 10 | 3 | P |
30 credits |
Other courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FSS:CSOn4002 | Introduction to Cultural Sociology | zk | 12 | 1 | - |
FSS:CSOn4003 | Advanced Methods of Interpretation in Cultural Sociology | zk | 12 | 4 | - |
FSS:CSOn4004 | Seminar to Advanced Methods of Interpretation in Cultural Sociology | z | 10 | 4 | - |
FSS:CSOn4006 | Migration, Transnationalism and the City | zk | 10 | 3 | - |
FSS:ESOn4008 | Current Themes in Sociology | zk | 10 | 2 | - |
FSS:ESOn4009 | Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis | zk | 10 | 1 | - |
FSS:ESOn4010 | Statistical Data Analysis with SPSS | zk | 10 | 1 | - |
FSS:ESOn4011 | Writing Sociology | zk | 10 | 3 | - |
FSS:ESOn4012 | Transnational Studies | zk | 10 | 2 | - |
FSS:ESOn4013 | Doing sociological Research: quantitave and qualitative approaches | z | 10 | 2 | - |
FSS:ESOn4016 | Independent Study | zk | 10 | 3 | - |
114 credits |