UCD Graduate Studies

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MSocSc Global Migration and Cultural Differences

Duration: 1 Year/ 2 Years	Leading and largest School of Sociology in Ireland Specialised, cutting-edge tuition in issues concerning racism, migration, identity, human rights, ethnicity, multiculturalism and ethnoracial politics. Most of our modules take place on one day a week allowing maximum flexibility for both full and part time students (Tuesday / Wednesday). Leading scholars and specialists in the field of race and migration sociology
Schedule: Full Time & Part Time
Starting: September 2012
Contact Name: Linda Vines
Contact Number: +353 (0)1 716 8674
Fees: Fee Information

Admissions

Who is the MSocSc Global Migration and Cultural Differences for?

The Programme is suitable for graduates with a primary degree in Sociology or Social Science or a closely related discipline (such as psychology, philosophy, human geography, history, politics, and economics) who wish to develop a grounding and analysis of issues conecerning two of the most pressing issues characterising contemporary Irish society: ethnic and racial difference and migration.

This Programme is valuable for those seeking advanced training and postgraduate qualification for academic, policy or civic purposes.

What will I learn?

You will develop an in depth and critical understanding of ethnoracial processes and of migration. Though the course will centre on Ireland you will be provided with a strong comparative focus. You will acquire powerful conceptual and empirical knowledge about race, identity, ethnicity, community, and culture.

How will I benefit?

A master’s degree in sociology from UCD offers advanced training in a number of essential skills that are transferable across a wide range of professional and academic fields and which are highly sought after in a variety of diversity-related fields. More specifically, within this programme, you will have the opportunity to develop a critical and comparative understanding of migration, ethnoracial formations, and nations and nationalism, and acquire powerful conceptual and empirical knowledge about race/ethnicity, identity, and difference.

The programme will develop a number of important critical faculties and research skills and give you a sound understanding of theories and substantive issues concerning migration and diversity. The progarmme is about providing you with skills sought by employers including the ability to think creatively, report writing, presentation, and oral skills.

Modules are taught by leading and experienced writers in the discipline to provide students with the necessary critical and research skills needed for a succesful career in the industry or as a basis upon which to pursue further academic doctoral study.

What is the Programme About?

Migration is a central element of intensifying processes of globalisation that have come increasingly to characterize our contemporary world. It is also a phenomenon that is fundamentally transforming both the structures of the nation-state and everyday life around the world. Migration both highlights and contributes to the existing complexities and contradictions of ethnic, national, cultural and social identities, differences and inequalities that already underpin our societies.

This cutting-edge interdisciplinary Master’s programme, delivered by some of Ireland’s foremost scholars, provides an understanding of global migration patterns, plural societies, and the national discursive and institutional formations that mediate them. The forces underpinning the proliferation of migration, the reception and settlement of migrants once in the destination country, and the confluence of in-migration dynamics and the politics of difference within the ‘indigenous’ society are addressed from both an Irish and an international perspective.