Dear colleagues,
the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University is still running its call for applications for Master's programmes - European Politics and Sociology for enrollment in autumn 2007 (or in case of a demanding visa procedure, in next semester, starting in February 2007).
Social sciences at the Master's level prepare students for continuing their studies at the postgraduate level and pursuing an academic career in the field of social sciences, as researchers or university teachers. Our masters programmes provide relevant education for students who are planning: careers in such fields as counselling, criminal justice, education, international relations, journalism, market research or public relations, public health, social welfare and social work, public administration, or urban planning. They also constitute a valuable major for those who want to enter law, medicine, architecture, business, or politics.
European Politics:
It is a comprehensive programme of study (full-time Master's) in the fields of comparative politics and European integration. The comparative politics component of the program covers basic theories, research methodology, empirical analysis, and comparative studies of the political developments and the party systems in European countries. This component allows students to focus specifically on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, to explore the experiences of post-communist transformations, and to acquire a thorough understanding of the political developments in post-socialist countries. The European integration component includes theoretical and empirical analysis of different international organizations and their interaction in Europe. Special emphasis is put on the study of the European Union and its enlargements.
More information: http://www.fss.muni.cz/eupolitics/
Sociology:
The Sociology study program is designed as a full-time graduate Master's study programme. The programme offers the opportunity for students to choose from the following areas of specialization: Social Research, Ethnic Relations and Migration Studies, Contemporary Social Problems, Modernization and Civil Society, Cultural Sociology. The courses combine general sociological information on these fields with a specific focus on the European and East-Central European historical contexts, such as the EU enlargement or democratic transition.
The Sociology program is offered to students who have already gained an undergraduate degree in the fields of humanities, social sciences, political science or other related fields. The study programme is also open to students whose aim is not to study for a graduate degree, but rather to gain individual credits. Such students may enrol in individual courses of their choice; the tuition fee will be proportional to the number of credits taken.
More information: http://www.fss.muni.cz/soc/eng
Duration: two years (4 semesters), tuition fee: 960 EUR per semester (3840 for the whole programme)
Possibility of scholarship in the form of one-year tuition waiver
Site: Brno, Czech Republic
Application: follow the procedure described at our web sites
Eligibility: Applicants are required to have at least a Bachelor or equivalent degree in social sciences or humanities (preferably).
Deadline: June 30 for non-EU applicants (later, you can already apply for enrollment in February 2007), August 31 for EU-applicants
The Faculty of Social Studies focuses on both education and research in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Psychology, Media Studies and Journalism, Social Policy and Social Work, and Environmental Studies. The Faculty makes every effort to link educational activities with its own research. Individual degree programs based on an internationally accepted credit system are strictly divided into Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels.
Degree programs are continually adapted to meet changes in society and its latest needs. Numerous research projects, many of them international, make it possible for students to cooperate with their teachers in the production of the contemporary scientific knowledge. The many research activities have a powerful parallel in
the Faculty Library, which today is the best equipped social sciences library in the country, and one of the best equipped in the East Central European region. More than eighty per cent of the books and journals are in English.
Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic and the leading university in many areas of study and research. Founded in 1919, it was named after T.G. Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. Today Masaryk University comprises 9 faculties with more than 150 departments, institutes and clinics covering a broad range of academic disciplines and fields of research. Brno - the capital of Moravia, located on the crossroads between Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Krakow - is often called a city of students, since apart from Masaryk University, it hosts 5 other universities and has the highest percentage of student population in the Czech Republic - all this finds its reflection in the facilities and opportunities offerd to university students here.
Jolana Navratilova
Masaryk University
Faculty of Social Studies
Office for International Relations and Doctoral Studies
Jostova 10
602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
tel.: +420 549 49 1914
Emails: int@fss.muni.cz
jnavrati@fss.muni.cz
http://www.fss.muni.cz
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