Sociology, Ph.D.

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Minimum of sixty-three semester credit hours (31 semester hours of course work and at least 32 semester hours of non-course work) beyond the Master’s degree, consisting of a Doctoral Core (1), Doctoral Specialty Core (2), Doctoral Electives (3), and Other Doctoral Requirements (4).

NOTES:

Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (“B”) or better. Students may not earn two or more grades of “C” or lower in graduate Sociology courses. Students who fail to meet either of these requirements will be scholastically terminated from the Sociology graduate program.
Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (“B”) or better and must receive a grade of B or better in each of the required courses. If a student receives a grade below a B in a required course, the student must repeat the course the very next time the course is offered to rectify the grade.
Graduate assistants are required to enroll in a minimum of 18 credit hours each semester. These credit hours will consist of courses required for the prescribed program of study, as well as additional hours of the courses outlined in the notes below.
Students must register for SOCI 8999 or SOCI 9999 while they are appointed as a GRA, GTA, and/or GLA.
Students who are appointed as a GTA B must successfully complete SOCI 9000 - Teaching Sociology and SOCI 9001 - Teaching Internship prior to their appointment.
SOCI 9001 - Teaching Internship hours cannot be applied to the sixty-three hour program of study for the Ph.D.
Students must take 3 hours of SOCI 8000 in the Fall semester of their first year in the Ph.D.-Only Program.

Degree Requirements

Doctoral Core Required Course Work (16 Hours)

NOTE: If a student needs to take SOCI 8010 - Intermediate Sociological Statistics , SOCI 8020 - Research Methodology , and/or SOCI 8030 - Sociological Theory I (or their equivalents, as determined by the Director of Graduate Studies), these courses must be taken as non-credit prerequisites for SOCI 9010 , SOCI 9020 , and SOCI 9030 .

SOCI 8000 - Proseminar in Sociology 3 Hours
SOCI 8342 - Qualitative Methods in Sociology 3 Hours
SOCI 9010 - Multivariate Sociological Data Analysis 4 Hours
SOCI 9020 - Advanced Research Methodology 3 Hours
SOCI 9030 - Sociological Theory II 3 Hours

Select at Least Two from the Core Areas (6 Hours)

SOCI 8102 - Life Course Sociology 3 Hours
SOCI 9230 - Sociology of Health & Illness 3 Hours
SOCI 8156 - Sexuality and Society 3 Hours
SOCI 8216 - Gender and Society 3 Hours
SOCI 8212 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 Hours
SOCI 8226 - Urban Sociology 3 Hours

Doctoral Elective Course Work (9 Hours or 3 Courses)

With the approval of the departmental Director of Graduate Studies, up to 3 hours (1 course) may be taken in a related field and/or up to 3 hours of SOCI 8970 - Directed Reading may be taken.

Other Doctoral Requirements (at least 32 Hours)

SOCI 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Hours (at least 32)
Written doctoral exams, a dissertation proposal, a dissertation, and oral defense

Concentration Requirements

Urban Spaces and Geography Concentration