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Study programme
The Master’s in Sociology is a one-year programme (60 ECTS) with 30 ECTS dedicated to elective courses about topics such as gender, work, health, and migration (semester 1) and 30 ECTS dedicated to working on your own research project in small scale thesis groups where you will also be trained in methodologies that are relevant to your project (semester 2).
Choose your own trajectory
Small-scale intensive thesis supervision
Nr. 1 in Continental Europe
Multitude of career paths
Academic staff
The staff teaching in the Sociology programme is internationally renowned for its research excellence. The programme director is dr. Chip Huisman.
Careers
After graduating from the Master’s programme in Sociology you will have a broad range of skills that easily translate into a multitude of careers. The programme gives students a good basis to pursue their studies at the PhD level. Students with an excellent academic record will be encouraged to complete their Master's studies with the development of a proposal for PhD study at the University of Amsterdam.
Is Sociology for you?
- Are you interested in making sense of the social world?
- Do you want to learn to ask better questions?
- Do you want to know how to do social scientific research?
- Do you want to critically analyse our familiar contexts?
- Are you keen to think about alternative social worlds?
Then Sociology might be the right programme for you!