Brown undergraduates who enter the program as fifth-year Master’s students are allowed to use up to two undergraduate courses to count towards the eight credit requirements if the courses are among the required or elective courses for the program.
All entering students are required to have
- One-semester introductory statistics course (SOC 1100 Introductory Statistics for Social Research or an equivalent),
- More advanced course in statistics or a course in college calculus (MATH 0050 and 0060, or MATH 0090 or an equivalent), and
- One-semester course in research methods (SOC 1020 Methods of Social Research or an equivalent).