G-SOC-PHD - Sociology - PhD

The PhD program requires the student to take six core courses. In addition, the student is to take two professionalization seminars (Sociology 701, 702) for the exposure of frontier research issues and professional activities in sociology. The core courses include Sociology 710 (Classical Sociological Theory), Sociology 711 (Contemporary Approaches to Sociological Explanation), Sociology 722 (Social Statistics I) and Sociology 723 (Social Statistics II), Sociology 720S (Logic of Inquiry), Sociology 721S (Research Design Practicum), and two additional advanced methods courses (to be determined by the student with approval of the director of graduate studies). Qualifying areas are determined with the academic advisor, but typically include culture and cognition, health and demography, organization and economic sociology, race and inequality, religion and social change, and social networks and computational sociology. The preliminary exam consists of a defense of the dissertation proposal. A student entering with only an undergraduate degree would need to take seventeen courses to satisfy degree requirements.