Liberal Arts in Social Sciences, Tallinn University

Liberal Arts in Social Sciences is a program designed to teach students about different social sciences, give them research and practical skills, and prepare them for future studies or the labour market. The program lasts six semesters, each building on the previous. Students start off aqcuiring basic skills for learning, research and writing along with introductions to core topics in social sciences like law and society. Over the next semesters each field introduces their own topics including sociology, politics, international relations, economy, management, demographics, psychology and others. The student will acquire knowledge on all interesting fields and via electives and open electives they choose their favourite. University offers many more courses on each of the introduced field so as the student progresses through their studies, they can decide for themselves, what they would like to focus on and where to move forward.
The program includes multiple methodology courses that give the research skills suitable for a bachelor's student. The program offers both qualitative and quantitative methods' courses taught by the people using them everyday in their own research. The students aquire new skills that are already practised during the studies as the content courses require a lot of reading, writing and analysis. This culminates with a final reserach paper supervised by the experts in the field, similar to bachelor's thesis.