This is offered in various options depending on the availability of lecturers, supervisors.
Entry Requirements
- An undergraduate degree with distinction/first class honours or its equivalent from the University of Guyana or any other approved universities.
- A postgraduate qualification from the University of Guyana or any approved University with a GPA not less than 2.7.
- Ten (10) years experience as an outstanding professional in the intended field of thesis research and successful completion of a minimum of two (2) years formal training at the University level or its equivalent with a GPA of not less than 2.7.
- Successful completion of the Graduate Diploma in International or Development Studies with a GPA of not less than 2.7.
The Curriculum includes the following courses:
| Semester I |
| GSC 519 |
Research Methods & Analysis in the Social Sciences |
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This graduate course is aimed at equipping students with a comprehensive and analytical understanding of the principles and practices of social science research. In seeking to expose students to the relevant theoretical perspectives that underlie the research process, the course supplies a platform on which skills and competencies to conduct empirical studies of social phenomena would be developed.
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| GSC 600 |
Independent Research (year long - thesis) |
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| Semester II |
| GSC 529 |
Research Strategies & Techniques in the Social Sciences |
The course presumes that students have a basic knowledge of social science methods. It is essentially concerned with equipping students with practical experiences in conducting social scientific research.
Therefore, in pursuance of this objective, it was necessary to include topics in social statistics for the students, because statistics is indeed an integral part of research. With statistics is especially critical to data analysis, it permeates of research design and data collection.
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| GSC 600 |
Independent Research (thesis) |
It is envisaged that programmes will operate within the framework of the following two fundamental principles.
- Higher degree should emphasise not the memorizing of masses of information but the development of skills of analytic enquiry, and of empirical investigation through appropriate research techniques. Among the many implications of this approach are the necessity for individualised instructions and, consequently, for the careful control of enrolment in higher degree programmes.
- Research projects should, as far as possible, be related to the urgent needs of the society while meeting certain standards of scholarship explicitly defined or tacitly embraced by the University. Accordingly, no department, irrespective of its initial capacity, should institute graduate programmes without first considering and assessing the demand such programmes are likely to satisfy.