Sociology
Follow-up Master's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied as a single subject or as a single subject with a specialization Social Anthropology.
Admission to Master's degree programmes in 2024/2025 (beginning: Spring 2025)
Submission deadline until midnight 30 November 2024.
What will you learn?
The Master’s degree programme in Sociology offers a rigorous course of instruction that will prepare you to investigate and understand the complexities of contemporary societies. The curriculum includes courses in classical and contemporary sociological theory, practical training in quantitative and qualitative research methods, and cultivation of your critical thinking and writing skills. The programme has been carefully designed to offer you a rich and complete sociological education, while simultaneously offering flexibility and opportunities for you to follow your personal interests.
The programme offers intensive instruction in a smaller number of challenging courses with high credit values, rather than extensive instruction in a high number of less demanding courses. This model of teaching is used at top international universities and it also helps you to become flexible and to transition smoothly to doctoral degree programmes if you decide to continue your studies. Our curriculum focuses on independent study combined with consultations with experienced lecturers, which enables you to develop skills needed for autonomous, thorough, and creative problem-solving. Methods that help you solve problems and complete tasks are given priority over broad factual knowledge in sociology, which can quickly become obsolete, is too extensive to be mastered in a two-year course of studies, and is usually easily available in digital databases and other types of information sources. Skilled use of such databases (e.g. being able to determine the relevance or reliability of data and information) is one of the skills that you learn during your Master’s studies.The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. (Pierre Bourdieu)
Practical training
Practical training is not a compulsory part of the study programme. However, students are encouraged to specialize and contact potential employers in their chosen area of specialization during their studies.
Further information
Career opportunities
The graduates are prepared to carry on individual analytical and conceptual work in different fields. They are prepared for jobs in various specialized areas.
A degree in sociology prepares you for further post-graduate study or for a professional career in fields ranging from state administration, marketing, and business to education, journalism, and the non-governmental sector. Our graduates often find employment in social and land development (at private companies, local authorities, labor offices, etc.) and in the market and public opinion research agencies.
The graduates are capable of individual and independent organizational and analytical work, and after enough experience also for professional leadership in project teams.
Admission requirements
No information available
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Full-time studies in czech
What will you learn?
Single-subject studies with specialization
In the single-subject studies, the student deepens knowledge in the concrete focus of the degree programme and chooses one specialization. The specialization is stated in the university diploma.
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Gender studies (full-time studies in czech)
(Currently no open admission procedure)
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Population studies (full-time studies in czech)
(Currently no open admission procedure)
What will you learn?
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
Single-subject studies
Single-subject studies with specialization
Follow-up studies
Graduates of the programme can enrol in various doctoral degree programmes in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Social Studies | |
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| Type of studies | Follow-up master's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | No | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | Yes | |
| major/minor studies | No | |
| Standard length of studies | 2 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
Do you have any questions?
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prof. PhDr. Tomáš Katrňák, Ph.D.
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