Master of Arts (MA) in Sociology

Dalhousie University

Our department is interdisciplinary comparative and critically engaged. Our graduate programs are small collegial and selective. We pride ourselves on the faculty support we offer our graduate students. Our MA students are highly competitive candidates for places in PhD programs across Canada and internationally. Many have been awarded major fellowships in support of their doctoral studies. Others have gone on to careers in policy law the non-profit sector and education.The Sociology and Social Anthropology programs each involve five credits including classwork and a thesis. A Masters degree may be pursued on a 12-month full-time basis or on a part-time basis (the degree requirements for each being the same).Full-time students who set themselves the goal of finishing the MA in 12 months may do so especially if they elect to do a thesis that does not require fieldworkdata gathering and ethics approval (for example an analysis of existing texts or datasets in the public domain). Students who choose to do fieldwork or gather original data generally take between 18 and 24 months to finish the MA.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences