About Us

Our primary strengths are in gender, political and economic sociology, and the sociology of the environment.

Each year more than 3,000 students enroll in approximately 60 courses offered by the Department of Sociology. The department has about 50 Ph.D. students and 500 undergraduate majors.

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Faculty

Our faculty also include specialists in the areas of:

• gender
• politics and economics
• environment
• criminology
• demography
• education
• organizations
• race & ethnicity
• religion
• stratification
• work & occupations

Our faculty are affiliated with a wide variety of other university programs.

Graduate Program

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Undergraduate Program

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Courses

• Current Sociology Courses
• University Course Catalog
• Recent Course Syllabi
• Related Courses (pdf)