English-taught Master's program in Sociology

  Czech Republic

• All Other Areas in Czech Republic: 
Brno

Description: The Faculty of Social Studies focuses on both education and research in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Psychology, Media Studies and Journalism, Social Policy and Social Work, and Environmental Studies. The Faculty makes every effort to link educational activities with its own research. Individual degree programs based on an internationally accepted credit system are strictly divided into Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels.

Degree programs are continually adapted to meet changes in society and its latest needs. Numerous research projects, many of them international, make it possible for students to cooperate with their teachers in the production of the contemporary scientific knowledge. The many research activities have a powerful parallel in the Faculty Library, which today is the best equipped social sciences library in the country, and one of the best equipped in the East Central European region. More than eighty per cent of the books and journals are in English.

The English-taught programme Sociology:

The Sociology study program is designed as a full-time graduate Master's study programme. The programme offers the opportunity for students to choose from the following areas of specialization: Social Research, Ethnic Relations and Migration Studies, Contemporary Social Problems, Modernization and Civil Society, Cultural Sociology. The courses combine general sociological information on these fields with a specific focus on the European and East-Central European historical contexts, such as the EU enlargement or democratic transition.

The Sociology program is offered to students who have already gained an undergraduate degree in the fields of humanities, social sciences, political science or other related fields. The study programme is also open to students whose aim is not to study for a graduate degree, but rather to gain individual credits. Such students may enrol in individual courses of their choice; the tuition fee will be proportional to the number of credits taken.

Highlights: Eligibility: Applicants are required to have at least a Bachelor or equivalent degree in social sciences or humanities (preferably)

Duration of both programmes: two years (4 semesters)

Tuition fee: 1,950 EUR per semester, possibility of scholarship in the form of the tuition-fee waver

The deadline for application into our Master's programmes:
30th April for Autumn semester (starting in September)
30th October for the Spring semester

Degree Level: Masters Degree

Minimum Education: Bachelors

Cost in US$: 1,950 Euros

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Czech Republic Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 10

Scholarships are Available. Scholarship in the form of tuition-fee waiver

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Resume
• Transcript
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is 1 month

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies's Mission Statement: Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic with nine faculties and more than 200 departments and institutes. It links high requirements for original research with systematic efforts to create the conditions for quality university education, corresponding with the demands placed on the qualifications by the employment market in a modern society.

Year Founded: 1919