The Department normally offers about 25 half‑courses per academic year. We typically offer required courses every year and generally offer a course in most of our 12 core areas of research specialization annually. We offer other courses (such as in our "emerging" areas) when faculty resources are available and when experience has shown them to be reasonably well attended. In many areas, courses in sequences are not prerequisites for later courses in the same sequence; for example, Network Analysis I is not a prerequisite for Network Analysis II. However, check with the Chair of the Area for suggestions regarding courses that are considered "core" to the area.
The following table includes many of the courses that we have taught fairly regularly, organized by the Core Areas of Research. We have indicated the required courses for the MA program in bold and the courses required for the PhD program in italics.
| Colonialization, Racialization & Indigeneity | SOC 6009H Ethnicity I | SOC6209H Indigeneity I | SOC6309H Indigeneity II |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational and Quantitative Methods | SOC 6302H Statistics for Sociologists | SOC 6707H Intermediate Data Analysis | |
| Crime and Law | SOC 6206H Sociology of Crime and Law III: Punishment | SOC 6306H Advanced Topics in Sociology of Crime & Law I: Policing & Society | |
| Culture | SOC 6516H Sociology of Culture | SOC 6018H Sociology of Religion | |
| Gender | SOC 6019H Gender I | SOC 6119H Gender II: Sexuality & Social Theory | SOC 6219H Gender III: Gender, Work and Migration |
| Global Migration | SOC6002H Immigration I | SOC6003H Immigration II | SOC6004H Immigration III |
| Health & Mental Health | SOC 6023 Sociology of Mental Health | SOC 6022H Sociology of Health | SOC 6024H Special Topics: Population Health |
| Networks & Community | SOC 6008H Networks I | SOC 6108H Networks II | |
| Political Sociology | Political Soc I: An Overview | SOC 6110H Political Sociology II: Politics of Risk and Disaster | |
| Professional Development Courses | SOC 6511H - Prosem | SOC 6711Y Research Practicum | SOC 6811H Teaching in Sociology |
| Qualitative Methods | SOC 6712H Qualitative Methods I | SOC 6713H Qualitative Methods II: Interviewing | |
| Theory | SOC 6001H Classical Sociological Theory | SOC 6101H Contemporary Sociological Theory | SOC 6401H Theory and Method in Historical Sociology |
| Work, Stratification and Markets | SOC6012H Work, Strat & Markets I: Work and professions | SOC6112H Work, Strat & Markets III: Work, Stratification and Health | SOC6113H Work, Strat & Markets II: Economic Sociology & Organization |
Students may submit a request to take a reading course in years when the department is not offering a course in the same sub‑field. Before enrolling, students need to arrange the course with a member of the Sociology Department graduate faculty who will be on campus over the required 12‑week period and is willing to meet with the student on a regular basis. The student and faculty member should arrange the content, mode of assessment and frequency of meetings for any reading course and seek approval from the Associate Chair, Graduate Studies. The supervising faculty member must have a Graduate Faculty (SGS) Appointment through the Graduate Department.
Directed Reading and Research are valued at 0.5 FCE and are graded using the letter grade system.
Procedures for Directed Reading and Research Course
- The course should offer an equivalent experience in terms of reading, organized academic activities and written assignments compared to a standard 0.5 FCE graduate course, with written assignments being mandatory.
- Each student, in consultation with the supervising faculty member, must submit the SGS Reading and/or Research Course form along with a course outline that includes:
- course title (up to 60 characters) and a brief description of the material to be studied;
- learning goals and objectives;
- required readings (such as journal articles, book chapters, (non-) governmental documents, etc) necessary to achieve the learning goals and objectives;
- deliverables and evaluation methods, with due dates and their weightings specified
- a statement detailing penalties for late submissions
- planned communication with instructor and a methods for receiving feedback
- The form and outline must be submitted to the Graduate Office for approval at least 5 working days prior to the sessional enrolment deadline.