Faculty of Social Sciences

Entrance examination 2005

The admission criteria for admissions in the year 2005 was accepted by the Faculty Council on the 8^th of November 2004, and several changes have taken place.

The entrance examination for those applicants, who have finished their secondary schooling abroad is arranged on the 6^th June 2005 at the University of Helsinki, Finland between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. The street address is Unioninkatu 40, lecture hall one. The  Entrance examinations are not organized abroad. The deadline for submitting the applications is January 31, 2005. Those wishing to take the examination and be admitted to study either for a Bachelor´s or Master´s degrees have to apply with the official application sheet of the university of Helsinki (available from International Relations Officer of the Faculty of Social Sciences or from here).

In the year 2005, applicants can only take the examination and be admitted to one field offered at the faculty. The fields of study offered at the Faculty are (the numbers in parenthesis refer to maximum amount of new students accepted to study the field in the entrance examination):

• Communication (max. 2)
• Development studies (max. 2)
• Economics (max. 6)
• Moral and Social Philosophy (max. 2)
• Political Science (max. 6)
• Social and Cultural Anthropology (max. 2)
• Social Policy (max. 2)
• Social Psychology (max. 2)
• Sociology (max. 2)
• Statistics (max. 3)
• Social Sciences History (Economic and Social History max. 2, Political History max. 2)

The applicant must obtain at least 2/3 of the maximum points available in the field of his/her choice in the entrance examination.

Required reading for the examination:

Examples:

• the applicant wants to become a majoring student in sociology, s/he must answer to the questions of sociology. The applicant wants to become a majoring student in political science, s/he must answer to the questions political science.
• An applicant who has studied the reading requirements of developement studies can only be accepted to development studies.

However, it should be noted that several subjects have the same entrance examination book. In this case the applicant has to inform on the separate sheet (given to him at the examination itself) of the subject s/he wishes to become a student ofThis choice can not be altered after the examination. The confirmation of the subject given if accepted is binding.

Communication: Bauman, Zygmunt and May, Tim: Thinking Sociologically, 2nd edition (Blackwell 2001), (ISBN 0-631-21928-5). AND Kivisto, Peter: Key Ideas in Sociology. Second Edition. Pine Forge Press 2003.

Development Studies: Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (eds. Tim Allen ja Alan Thomas), (publisher: The Open University in association with Oxford University Press, 2000) (ISBN 0198776268 ).

Economics: Begg, David- Fisher, Stanley- Dornbusch, Rudiger: Economics, 7^th edition, chapters 1-3, 4-9, 19-21, 23, 26-29 (Mc Graw Hill 2002 USA; ISBN 0-07-709947-8 ) AND Mendelson, Elliott: Beginning Calculus, 2^nd edition or newer, (McGraw Hill, USA, ISBN 0-07-041733-4).

Statistics: Mendelson, Elliott: Beginning Calculus, 2^nd edition or newer, (McGraw Hill, USA, ISBN 0-07-041733-4).

Moral and Social Philosophy: Heywood, Andrew: Politics, 2nd edition (MacMillan 2002), (hardcover ISBN 0333986296, softcover ISBN 0333971310).

Political Science: Heywood, Andrew: Politics, 2nd edition (MacMillan 2002), (hardcover ISBN 0333986296, softcover ISBN 0333971310).

Social and Cultural Anthropology: Bauman, Zygmunt and May, Tim: Thinking Sociologically, 2nd edition (Blackwell 2001), (ISBN 0-631-21928-5). AND Kivisto, Peter: Key Ideas in Sociology. Second Edition. Pine Forge Press 2003 (ISBN 080399088X) .

Social Policy: Bauman, Zygmunt and May, Tim: Thinking Sociologically, 2. edition (Blackwell 2001), (ISBN 0-631-21928-5) AND Kivisto, Peter: Key Ideas in Sociology. Second Edition. Pine Forge Press 2003 (ISBN 080399088X).

Social Psychology: Bauman, Zygmunt and May, Tim: Thinking Sociologically, 2nd edition (Blackwell 2001), (ISBN 0-631-21928-5). AND Kivisto, Peter: Key Ideas in Sociology. Second Edition. Pine Forge Press 2003 (ISBN 080399088X).

Social Science History : Heywood, Andrew: Politics, 2nd edition (MacMillan 2002), (hardcover ISBN 0333986296, softcover ISBN 0333971310).

Sociology: Bauman, Zygmunt and May, Tim: Thinking Sociologically, 2nd edition (Blackwell 2001), (ISBN 0-631-21928-5). AND Kivisto, Peter: Key Ideas in Sociology. Second Edition. Pine Forge Press 2003 (ISBN 080399088X).

IMPORTANT: Please note, that some fields require the studying two books for the examination and some only one. On the average the amount of reading is more or less the same. The applicant must obtain at least 2/3 of the maximum points available in the entrance examination. ResultsThe results of the examination are announced on the Faculty's bulletin board (Unioninkatu 37, first floor). Examinees will be sent a letter regarding the results in mid-July 2005.

Examination questions from previous years

Entrance examination questions from previous years are available fom the following links. They are in pdf-format, and thus you need the Adobe Acrobat reader to be able to open the files. Please also note, that the application procedures and books have changed with the years. The purpose of these earlier questions is to give the applicants an example of the type of questions.

• Entrance examination questions of the year 2002
• Entrance examination questions of the year 2003
• Entrance examination questions of the year 2004

Provisional Admission

When accepted to study at the Faculty of Social Sciences for a Bachelor´s degree after being admitted in the entrance examination, the student first receives a two-year provisional admission. During these two years the student have to complete the certain language and other requirements to be specified in the spring 2005. These requirements will contain:

1. half of the obligatory language studies in Finnish or Swedish language The equivalent of 10 "old" credits in his/her major subject studies
2. The equivalent of 10 "old" credits in other studies (including possible studies at another faculty of the University)

Starting from the year 2005, all applicants accepted at the entrance examination will have to first complete the lower degree, Bachelor of Social Sciences (B.Soc.Sc.), before they may proceed to studies leading to Master of Social Sciences.

This conditional admission is not applicable to citizens of the Nordic countries, and it does not apply to those applicants who have finished their upper secondary school in the Nordic Countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark or Finland) and have received a diploma to confirm this.