Type of programme

Graduate

Programme title

Single Major Graduate Study Programme in Sociology

Institution

Proposed by

University of Split

Participating

Institutions

Department of Sociology

Duration

2 years

ECTS

120

Admission requirements

Students have to complete their undergraduate education in sociology and receive at least 180 ECTS points; they also must fulfill their study obligations according to the Regulation of Work of the Department and other statutes of the programme.

Learning outcomes and competences

1) A student who has obtained an M.A in Sociology is qualified for conducting his/her own research and for explaining social facts, events, structures and processes in society, on micro and macro levels; (2) he/she is also qualified to work as a researcher in local and state institutions, political parties, insurance companies, banks, employment bureaus, big department stores and advertising agencies, personnel departments of different companies, the media (newspapers, radio, TV), agencies for the research of public opinion, research institutions and so on; (3) those who choose the educational module would be qualified as teachers of sociology in high schools or any other secondary school

Access to further studies

To all graduate (vocational and scientific) social studies programmes in Croatia and abroad

Qualification awarded

Upon completion of graduate studies students receive the academic title Master (M.A.) of Sociology

1st semester (graduate)

Code

Course Title

Teaching *

  L +  S  + E  +  R

ECTS

SOS701

Qualitative Analyses in the Social Sciences

20 + 40 +  0  + 30

5

SOS702

Sociology of Literature

30 + 60 +  0  +   0

5

SOS703

Ethical Problems in Sociological Research

30 + 60 +  0  +   0

5

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

SOS704

Research Work 3**

  0 +   0 +  0  + 50

5

SOS705

Sociological Research Workshop 7***

Work with Mentor

6

Σ

140+180+ 0  + 80

                        400

30

* Teaching:  L+S+E+R = lectures + seminar + exercises + research work

   The number of hours of teaching refers to all the teaching realized in one semester.

** The research work is primarily organized according to the student's free choice and it is his/her individual work. It is possible that it coresponds, thematically (theoretically and methodologically), to any other already attended course in this programme (mandatory or elective), but it is not necessary. The mentor's supervision is essential in this work, especially if a student wants to realize it as a kind of preliminary work for his/her BA thesis for the udergraduate programme. The mentor, in cooperation with the authors (students) of the best work, will prepare the work for publication in study libraries (Social, Sociological and Methodological).

***Sociological Research Workshop will be organized and realized under the leadership of a mentor (professor with academic title). Students are allowed to choose a mentor according to their interests, wishes and affinities. Special web pages will be designed in order to enable the students to get information about the possibilities of choosing a professor according to their research interests, methodological concepts and other similar information.

The mentor elected by the students will supervise them during the whole semester, working individually and on a special concrete project with them. This could refer to empirical market projects conducted over a period of not more than 90 days. In the case of great interest or if the project is not conducted during this period because of objective reasons (such as for example special customer's, sponsor's or donator's requirements), the topic of the reseach workshop can be extend to the next semester, but it can not last more than two semesters. It is recommended that every mentor works with his/her students until the end of the undergraduate study and BA thesis. Students are also alowed to change their mentor after the second semester during the undergraduate study, but this must be explained in written form and sent to the Council of the programme to be reconsidered. Because of the fact that this workshop is imagined as an interactive research workshop its aim is to allow students to meet each other and to work together as a team, but primarily it generates a selection of the best and most active students whose work will be published in coauthorship with their mentor or they will publish it together as a team, or individually. In this context we have already come to an agreement with three publishers, from Split, Zagreb and Rijeka and three research libraries (Social, Sociological and Methodological). They will primarily publish empirical studies, but there will also be numerous methodological and theoretical studies. Different ways of presenting results will also be offered in such research workshops. For this purpose we will organize meetings, discussions, press conferences and similar types of public relations. We will also initiate interdisciplinary research projects and different kinds of meetings for the university at large.

2nd semester (graduate)

Code

Course Title

Teaching *

 L  +   S + E   +  R

ECTS

SOS801

Quantitative Analyses in the Social Sciences

20 + 40 +  0  + 30

5

SOS802

Cultural Research and Methods

30 + 60 +  0  +   0

5

SOS803

Ethnographical Approaches in Sociology

30 + 60 +  0  +   0

5

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

SOS804

Research Work 4

  0 +   0 +  0  + 50

5

SOS805

Sociological Research Workshop 8

Work with Mentor

6

Σ

140+180 + 0 + 80

                       400

   30

3rd semester (graduate)

Code

Course Title

Teaching *

  L+  S  + E  +  R

ECTS

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

Elective Course

30 + 10 +  0  +   0

2

SOS901

Research Work  5

 0  +   0 +  0  + 50

5

SOS902

Sociological Research Workshop 9

Mentor's work

8

Individual student work *

-------------

7

Σ

150 + 50 + 0 + 50

250

   30

* Individual work refers to preparing and partly realizing (for example, field work if the work refers to empirical research) a final thesis under the supervision of a mentor (professor with academic title). This work does not need to be research work and it can also be realized by a team of students.

4th semester (graduate)

Code

Course Title

Teaching *

 L  +  S  + E  +   R

ECTS

Individual student work

-------------

8

SOS903

Final Thesis

-------------

20

SOS904

Final Exam

-------------

2

Σ

-------------

30

* Final Thesis is the final version of the MA thesis, which a student publicly defends at the end of his/her graduate study, as a graduate examination. In fact, the final thesis refers to the continuation of individual work (or they might be identical) which has already been started during the third semester.

Elective Courses Offered by the Department of Sociology

Course code

Elective Course

Semester

L

S

E

ECTS

SOSi04

Sociology of Sport

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi05

Ecosystems and Society 

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi16

Postindustrial Society

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi17

Sociology of Croatian Society

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi18

Management of Organizational Behaviour

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi26

Sociology of Religion

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi27

Contemporary Challenges to the Sociology of Religion

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi20

Sociology of Women

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi28

Sociology of Politics

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi29

Theories of Social Practice

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi42

Conversational and Discursive Analyses

Summer

30

10

2

SOSi35

Electronic Communications and Society

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi 36

Contemporary Urban Sociology

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi 38

The Phenomenon of Risk and Contemporary Sociology

Winter

30

10

2

SOSi31

Social Psychology

Summer

30

10

2