Vienna, Austria
The Master of Arts in Sociology and Social Anthropology consists of Pre-Session training, two semesters of course work and a Spring Session. The Pre-Session includes academic writing support to improve the student's written and spoken English, basic computer training and an orientation to CEU. During the Fall and Winter Semester students are required to attend courses regularly. During the Spring Semester students write their MA theses. Courses are generally in seminar format, including lectures and discussions. They require active participation on the students' part. During the academic year students can attend a variety of workshops, seminars as well as lectures presented by visiting faculty or guest lecturers.
The two year MA aims to present students a wide range of theories and methods in sociology and social anthropology while examining their interaction and integration in the study of globalization and urban studies. The study of globalization and of urban studies is conceived in the department as both a material and a formal object. We study global and urban processes as such, but we also work with a variety of local and urban sites as windows onto the larger scale processes of globalization. The ‘global’ historically has been produced on other levels as well and grows in the interplay of various scales, of which the urban is a privileged one. We see the city as constitutive of the global and an important venue to explore the spatial dynamics of globalization and the scales of power and governance structures.