- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 Years
Course details
We aim:
- To provide high quality research training in a lively intellectual atmosphere
- To promote students’ professional involvement in academic life
- To ensure that students will make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge in sociology
- And to ensure that students will make a contribution to the understanding and well being of contemporary societies
By the end of their time as a research postgraduate student in the Department it is our goal that students will:
- Have completed a thesis which is a high quality piece of orginal sociological analysis and is at least partly publishable in a peer-reviewed academic outlet
- Have developed and demonstrated a significant level of skill in at least one methodology of sociological research and analysis
- Have a broad knowledge of a number of sub-fields within sociology
And have had the opportunity to develop teaching and administrative skills and experience
Entry Requirements
Minimum 2.1 degree in BA or MA in Sociology or Cognate subject. Applications with equivalent learning are also welcomed.
Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
- RADICAL EDUCATION AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
- FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
- LABOUR MARKET POLICY
- CRITICAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL PEDAGOGY FOR COMMUNITIES
- THE MARKET, THE STATE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT PRACTICE
- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
- DOING RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- IRELAND:ECONOMY & SOCIETY
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
- CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATION 1
- SUMMER/WINTER SCHOOL 1
- EXTERNAL OR INTERNATIONAL COURSE 1
- CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATION 2
- SUMMER/WINTER SCHOOL 2
- THEMATIC MODULE 1
- MAJOR PUBLICATION
- MAJOR PUBLICATION 3
- PRIOR LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE 2
- DIRECTED READING 1
- FIELD RESEARCH 1
- FIELD RESEARCH 2
- GRANT APPLICATION WRITING 2
- EXTERNAL OR INTERNATIONAL COURSE 2
- DIRECTED READING 2
- DIRECTED READING 3
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1
- PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT PRACTICE
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- URBAN STUDIES
- MIGRATION STUDIES
- KEY CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY 2
- CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATION 3
- WRITING UP SEMINAR 2
- MAJOR PUBLICATION 2
- KEY CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY 1
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH II
- THE CRAFT AND LOGICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH I
- TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- ADVANCED SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS 1
- ADVANCED SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS 2
- DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR ATTENDANCE 1
- WRITING UP SEMINAR 1
- THESIS WRITING AND COMPLETION
- PRIOR LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE 1
- GRANT APPLICATION WRITING 1
- NATURE AND SOCIETY
- QUALITATIVE METHODS
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
- ANALYTICAL REASONING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- WORK: FUTURE AND TRENDS
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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