General description

The Master’s program is intended to enable students to design their studies around the focus areas of research covered by the Institute of Sociology in the fields of life course and generations, economic sociology, or norms and cooperation. They discover and work on current research issues on the basis of theories and elaborated social science methods of data gathering and analysis.
The study program resolves around the acquisition of comprehensive expertise in planning and conducting theory-based empirical research into social structures and processes. Skills are taught placing particular emphasis on applying the capacity to think independently along analytical and conceptual lines to formulate and resolve research problems and questions. Those completing the program are qualified for demanding, complex work and involvement in public institutions, NGOs, private enterprise, or an academic environment.

Admission requirements

For general Informations on Application see: https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/studies/application; More Informations in regulations and admission requirements of the program of study.

Branch of studies

Sociology

ECTS credits

90 ECTS Credits

Degree

Master of Arts UZH
in Social Sciences

Language of instruction

German