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BA Quantitative Social Sciences (SMIU01)     FT

2016 - 2017

 
 

Year 1


units (60 credits)
1A
A student will take

Semester 1
SMI105  Data Visualisation AUT SEM 10 credits
SMI106  Introductory Quantitative Data Analysis for Social Scientists AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SMI107  Introductory Research Project in Quantitative Social Science SPR SEM 20 credits
SMI108  Survey Design and Data Collection SPR SEM 10 credits

Full academic year
SMI101  Applied Social Sciences@UoS ACAD YR 0 credits

units
1B
Achieve More
A student will take

Semester 1
IPS101  State of Sheffield - Global perspectives on local issues AUT SEM 0 credits

1C

One of the following routes:

 


Geography, Urban Studies and Landscape route.


units (40 credits)
i.i
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO117  New Horizons in Geography AUT SEM 20 credits
GEO120  Information and Communication Skills for Geographers AUT SEM 20 credits
TRP108  Information and Communication Skills AUT SEM 10 credits
TRP130  Housing, Home and Neighbourhood AUT SEM 10 credits
TRP131  The Making of Urban Places AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
GEO115  Introduction to Environmental Geographies SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO116  Introduction to Geographical Methods SPR SEM 20 credits
LSC119  The Changing Landscape SPR SEM 20 credits
TRP105  The Environmental Challenge SPR SEM 10 credits
TRP107  Economics for Spatial Planning SPR SEM 10 credits
TRP109  Data Analysis and Presentation SPR SEM 10 credits
TRP111  Cities SPR SEM 10 credits
TRP133  Development, Planning and the State SPR SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
GEO113  Introduction to Physical Geography ACAD YR 20 credits
GEO114  Introduction to Human Geography ACAD YR 20 credits

units (20 credits)
i.ii
A student will take unrestricted units to the value of 20 credits.

Politics, Sociology and Criminology route.


units (40 credits)
ii.i
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LAW110  Understanding Criminology AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW3033  Responding to Crime AUT SEM 20 credits
POL110  An Introduction to the History of Western Political Thought AUT SEM 20 credits
POL111  The Politics of Globalisation AUT SEM 20 credits
POL113  Introduction to Political Analysis AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS1001  The Sociology of Everyday Life AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1003  Understanding Inequality AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1005  Gender, Sexuality and Society AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1007  Understanding Crime AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
LAW113  Introducing Criminological Research SPR SEM 20 credits
POL109  Comparing Modern Polities SPR SEM 20 credits
POL114  Introduction to Security Studies SPR SEM 20 credits
POL115  Consensus, Crisis and Coalition: Introduction to British Politics SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS1009  Welfare Politics and the State SPR SEM 10 credits
SCS1011  Classical Sociological Theory SPR SEM 10 credits
SCS1013  Globalisation and World Cultures SPR SEM 10 credits

units (20 credits)
ii.ii
A student will take unrestricted units to the value of 20 credits.

Management route.


units (50 credits)
iii.i
A student will take 50 credits from this group.

Semester 2
MGT120  Introduction to Behaviour at Work SPR SEM 10 credits

Full academic year
MGT134  Business Management in Context ACAD YR 20 credits
MGT136  Management Themes and Perspectives ACAD YR 20 credits

units (10 credits)
iii.2
A student will take unrestricted units to the value of 10 credits.

Year 2


units (40 credits)
2A
A student will take

Semester 1
SMI206  Multivariate Data Analysis in Social Science AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SMI205  Intermediate Research Project in Quantitative Social Science SPR SEM 20 credits

2B

A student will take units to the value of sixty credits from one of the following routes:


Geography, Urban Studies and Landscape route (select either group i or ii).


units (10 credits)
i.i
A student will take 10 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO262  Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing AUT SEM 10 credits
AND

units (50 credits)
i.ii
A student will take 50 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO256  Statistical Analysis for Geography and Environmental Science AUT SEM 10 credits
GEO257  Qualitative Methods AUT SEM 10 credits
GEO258  Geographies of Development AUT SEM 20 credits
GEO269  Social and Cultural Geographies AUT SEM 20 credits
TRP216  Spatial Analysis AUT SEM 20 credits
TRP234  Urban Theory and Politics AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
GEO243  Political Geographies SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO245  Environmental Pollution and Quality SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO246  Environment, Society and Politics SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO248  Research Design for Geography and Environmental Science SPR SEM 10 credits
GEO259  Atmospheres and Oceans SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO260  Earth and Ecosystem Dynamics SPR SEM 20 credits
LSC236  Landscape Planning for a Changing World SPR SEM 20 credits
TRP217  Profit, Planning and Context SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
ii.i
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
TRP216  Spatial Analysis AUT SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
ii.ii
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO256  Statistical Analysis for Geography and Environmental Science AUT SEM 10 credits
GEO257  Qualitative Methods AUT SEM 10 credits
GEO258  Geographies of Development AUT SEM 20 credits
GEO262  Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing AUT SEM 10 credits
GEO269  Social and Cultural Geographies AUT SEM 20 credits
TRP234  Urban Theory and Politics AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
GEO243  Political Geographies SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO245  Environmental Pollution and Quality SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO246  Environment, Society and Politics SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO248  Research Design for Geography and Environmental Science SPR SEM 10 credits
GEO259  Atmospheres and Oceans SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO260  Earth and Ecosystem Dynamics SPR SEM 20 credits
LSC236  Landscape Planning for a Changing World SPR SEM 20 credits
TRP217  Profit, Planning and Context SPR SEM 20 credits

Politics, Sociology and Criminology route.

AND

units (60 credits)
iii
A student will take 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LAW3030  Drugs, Crime and Control AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW317  The Rehabilitation of Offenders AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW331  Criminal Process AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW353  Analysing Crime Data AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW380  Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW382  Understanding Criminology: Advanced Level Introduction AUT SEM 20 credits
POL223  International Relations Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
POL226  Comparative Politics: Citizens, States, Power, and Protest AUT SEM 20 credits
POL230  Contemporary Security Challenges AUT SEM 20 credits
POL231  Never Mind the Ballots! State and Society in the UK Today AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2001  Sociological Theory and Analysis AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2002  Varieties of Welfare AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2006  Sociology of the Family AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2009  The Sociology of Crime and Deviance AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2016  Media Studies AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LAW3021  Police and Policing in a Global Context SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW332  Criminology Research Project SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW384  Punishment and Penal Policy SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW390  Restorative Justice SPR SEM 20 credits
POL206  The Politics and Government of the European Union SPR SEM 20 credits
POL217  The Global Political Economy SPR SEM 20 credits
POL232  Contemporary US Foreign Policy SPR SEM 20 credits
POL234  Political Theory in Practice SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2005  Race, Immigration & Multiculturalism SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2007  Social Policy in Global Context SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2010  Social Policy and Criminology SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2012  The Internet and Society SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2018  Social Work in the 21st Century SPR SEM 20 credits

Management route.

AND

units (60 credits)
iv
A student will take 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MGT219  Organisational Behaviour AUT SEM 20 credits
MGT231  Business Strategy AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
MGT233  Essentials of Marketing SPR SEM 20 credits
MGT243  Career Management Theory and Practice SPR SEM 20 credits

units (20 credits)
2C
A student will take unrestricted units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 3


3A

A student will take:

SMI302   Advanced Research Project in Quantitative Social Science
ACAD YR F6 40
SMI303   Student Conference in Quantitative Social Science
SPR SEM F6 20

3B

A student will take forty credits from one of the following routes.


Geography, Urban Studies and Landscape route.


units (40 credits)
i
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO336  Development and Global Change AUT SEM 20 credits
GEO354  Contemporary Climate Change and Processes AUT SEM 20 credits
GEO387  Geographies of Consumption AUT SEM 20 credits
LSC336  Landscape Planning Toolkits AUT SEM 20 credits
TRP331  Development Planning AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
GEO381  Geographies of Politics and Society SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO382  Landscape Development and Tectonic Processes SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO383  Urban Transformations SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO384  Critical Ecologies SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO390  Professional Skills for Environmental Science SPR SEM 20 credits
GEO394  Natural and Environmental Hazards SPR SEM 20 credits
TRP323  Planning Law and Development Control SPR SEM 20 credits
TRP326  Values, Theory and Ethics in Spatial Planning SPR SEM 20 credits

Politics, Sociology and Criminology route.

AND

units (40 credits)
ii
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LAW3030  Drugs, Crime and Control AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW317  The Rehabilitation of Offenders AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW331  Criminal Process AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW353  Analysing Crime Data AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW380  Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW382  Understanding Criminology: Advanced Level Introduction AUT SEM 20 credits
LAW389  Youth Crime and Justice AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3001  The Political Economy of Africa AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3005  Civilisation, Empire and Hegemony AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3019  Terrorism, Violence and the State AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3100  Explaining Politics AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3107  Politics and the Quality of Life AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3119  Party Politics: Competition, Strategies & Campaigns AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3129  Parliamentary Studies AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3137  Peacekeeping, State-building and International Intervention AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3139  Pandemics and Panics: Health, Security and Global Politics AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3145  Gender in the Global Political Economy AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3147  The Politics of Asylum AUT SEM 20 credits
POL3155  German Politics: Domestic Contestation and Global Impact AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3025  Sociology of Evil AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3028  Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3031  How to lie with statistics AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3036  Intimacy and Personal Relationships AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3038  The Sociology of Organised Crime AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3041  How the World Gets Made AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3042  Social Media, Data and Society AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LAW3021  Police and Policing in a Global Context SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW332  Criminology Research Project SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW383  Introducing Criminological Research SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW384  Punishment and Penal Policy SPR SEM 20 credits
LAW390  Restorative Justice SPR SEM 20 credits
POL3121  War, Peace and Justice SPR SEM 20 credits
POL3143  Practical Politics: How to Make Policy and Influence People SPR SEM 20 credits
POL3149  The Ethics of Political Leadership SPR SEM 20 credits
POL3153  Sex, Race and Death: Feminist Perspectives on War, Violence and (In)Security SPR SEM 20 credits
POL393  Elections and Voting SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3014  Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3015  Sociology of the New Genetics SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3018  The Sociology of Surveillance SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3032  Children, Families and Welfare States SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3043  Digital Health SPR SEM 20 credits

Management route.

AND

units (40 credits)
iii
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
MGT310  Critical Perspectives in Work and Organisational Psychology AUT SEM 20 credits
MGT357  Corporate Social Responsibility AUT SEM 20 credits
MGT363  The Leisure Industry AUT SEM 20 credits
MGT382  International Marketing AUT SEM 20 credits
MGT385  Strategy Practice AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
MGT309  Industrial Relations SPR SEM 20 credits
MGT358  Integrated Marketing Communications SPR SEM 20 credits
MGT376  International Business SPR SEM 20 credits

units (20 credits)
3C
A student will take unrestricted F5 or F6 level units to the value of 20 credits.

 
 
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