Sociology (PhD)
Degree Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | 13 | ||
| Seminar | |||
| Classical Sociological Theory | |||
| Quantitative Sociological Analysis | |||
| Research Methods In Sociology I | |||
| Applied Research | |||
| Theory Course | 3 | ||
| Select one of the following courses: | |||
| Historical Materialism Approaches to Social Theory | |||
| Sociological Social Psychology | |||
| Special Topics In Sociology (Social Movement Theory) | |||
| Special Topics In Sociology (Intersectional Theory) | |||
| Special Topics In Sociology (Critical Race Theory) | |||
| Method / Analysis Courses | 6 | ||
| Select two of the following courses: | |||
| Advanced Sociological Analysis (Social Network Analysis) | |||
| Advanced Sociological Analysis (Multilevel/ Longitudinal Analysis) | |||
| Advanced Sociological Analysis (Sequence Analysis) | |||
| Advanced Sociological Analysis (Computational Text Analysis) | |||
| Qualitative Sociological Methods and Analysis | |||
| Special Topics In Sociology | |||
| Substantive Courses | 24 | ||
| Select eight courses from "Substantive Courses" listed below - based on speciality area | |||
| Research Courses | 26 | ||
| Doctoral Supervised Research | |||
| Doctoral Dissertation Research | |||
| Total Hours | 72 | ||
Specialty Courses
Select eight courses from the following options - based on speciality area.
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime, Law, and Social Control | |||
| ³§°¿°äÌý721 | Deviant Behavior | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý722 | Social Control | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý725 | Gender and Crime | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý791 | Special Topics In Sociology (Advanced Qualitative Sociological Methods and Analysis) | 1-6 | |
| Inequality: Class, Gender and Race | |||
| ³§°¿°äÌý736 | Social Stratification | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý737 | Sociology Of Gender | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý738 | Race and Ethnic Inequality | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý739 | Social Psychology Of Inequality | 3 | |
| Work and The Global Economy Specialty Courses | |||
| ³§°¿°äÌý752 | Work and Industry | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý754 | Economic Sociology | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý755 | Global Institutions and Markets | 3 | |
| Food and Environment Specialty Courses | |||
| ³§°¿°äÌý761 | Contemporary Debates in Food & Environment | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý762 | Sociology of Food Systems | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý763 | Environmental Sociology | 3 | |
| ³§°¿°äÌý791 | Special Topics In Sociology (Food Systems) | 1-6 | |
Faculty
Full Professors
- Sarah K. Bowen
- Martha L. Crowley
- Stacy DeCoster
- Andrea Leverentz
- Anna Manzoni
- Steven J. McDonald
- Thomas Eugene Shriver
- Melvin E. Thomas
Associate Professors
- Michaela Anne DeSoucey
- Kimberly Lynn Ebert
- April Dawn Fernandes
Assistant Professors
- Andrew Paul Davis
- Laura DeMarco
- Marbella Hill
- Jessica Pfaffendorf
- Lesley Schneider
- Mia Brantley Wright
Practice/Research/Teaching Professors
- Megan Glancy
- Deann Judge
- Virginia Riel
- Margaret Stiffler
- Jim Yocom
Emeritus Faculty
- Virginia M Aldige
- Maxine Atikinson
- Ronald F. Czaja
- William B. Clifford II
- L. Richard Dellafave
- Ted Greenstein
- Stephen C. Lilley
- Patricia Lou McCall
- Robert Lonnie Moxley
- Toby Parcel
- Michael Schwalbe
- William R. Smith
- Maxine S. Thompson
- Randy J. Thomson
- Charles Ray Tittle
- Eric M. Woodrum
- Margaret A Zahn
- James J. Zuiches