Sociology

The combined Master's degree programme in Sociology focuses on the specialised knowledge needed to work as a teacher. In the two years of study, students of the Teacher education programme of Sociology acquire the knowledge necessary for teaching sociology and/or social sciences in grammar schools and other secondary and primary schools, as well as the knowledge necessary for working with young people and for working in education in general.

Graduates of the programme can work effectively in secondary education, as well as in primary education, in universities for adult education and other forms of lifelong learning, as they acquire comprehensive skills for working with both adolescents and adults. The programme provides knowledge and understanding of social and historical processes in modernity and contemporary times, knowledge of different forms of community and different types of social ties, the functioning of particular social (sub-) systems, especially the school system, and knowledge and recognition of the different mechanisms of social differentiation and inequality, especially in the school social environment, and knowledge of strategies for dealing with social differentiation in school.

In addition, it also provides knowledge and understanding of the needs and interests of the individual, especially adolescents, knowledge of ways of critically identifying media messages, knowledge and mastery of the methodology and didactics of teaching sociology and social sciences, competence in motivating students for sociology, and competence in organising and delivering lessons in sociology and other related subjects using modern teaching methods.