Regulations for examinations

Sociology for the M.Phil. Degree

(Statutes and Ordinances, 2024, p. 534)

With effect from 1 October 2027

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Degree Committee for the Departments of Archaeology, Social Anthropology, and Sociology, has approved the amendment of the special regulations for the course in Sociology for the degree of Master of Philosophy by advanced study to amend the scheme of examination to bring it under the Ordinance for Assessment Formats, as follows:

Sociology

1. The scheme of examination for the one-year full-time and two-year part-time course of study in Sociology for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall be as follows:

(a)each candidate shall, at the commencement of study, select one of the pathways specified at the end of these regulations, and offer

(b)assessments permitted under the Ordinance for Assessment Formats, as prescribed by the Degree Committee for the pathway chosen in accordance with (a); and

(c)a dissertation, of not less than 10,000 and not more than 15,000 words, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography, on a topic approved by the Degree Committee. Topics must receive approval not later than the beginning of the Full Easter Term.

The Degree Committee shall publish the lists of topics prescribed for the pathways no later than the first day of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.

2. The examination may, at the discretion of the Examiners, include an oral examination on the dissertation and on the general field of study within which it falls.

PATHWAYS
Political and economic sociology	The sociology of media and culture
The sociology of marginality and exclusion