Enhance Your Learning Experience: A Guide for Sociology Majors

 

Enhance Your Learning Experience: A Guide for Sociology Majors

 

The Department of Sociology offers courses in a variety of subjects.  While our faculty specialize and teach courses in wide-ranging areas, the Department’s research and teaching are grouped in four major areas.  These are:

 

The following guide is intended to help students majoring in Sociology who wish to focus on specific areas of research. The following courses exclude the required courses for Major, Minor, or General Degrees in Sociology. Please also note that our 400-level courses offer seminar-based experiences that reflect the instructor’s current research and teaching interests and, as such, topics vary. Additionally, SOCI 439A and SOCI 439B offer community-engaged learning opportunities for students that can complement any of our four major areas.


Please note that the following lists of courses are only suggestions that are meant to enhance students’ experience of their area(s) of interest, and to assist in organizing their electives. 

  • Ecology, Global Issues, and Social Movements
    • SOCI 207 – Ecology, Society and Global Change
    • SOCI 316 – Social Movements
    • SOCI 318 – Social Change
    • SOCI 321 – Work, Globalization, and Labour Movements
    • SOCI 326 – Social Networks
    • SOCI 355 – The Corporation, Capitalism, and Globalization
    • SOCI 357 – Global and Transnational Sociology in Germany
    • SOCI 384 – Colonialism, Postcoloniality and Indigenous Resurgence
    • SOCI 388 – Sociology of Food and Eating
    • SOCI 437 – Issues in Environmental Sociology and Climate Change

 

Other courses that complement studies in this area include:

  • SOCI 215 – Class and Social Inequality
  • SOCI 220 – Media and Contemporary Society
  • SOCI 310 – Religion in Society
  • SOCI 331 – Politics and Society
  • SOCI 383 – Feminisms in Theory and Practice
  • SOCI 436 – Issues in Sociology and Social Justice

 

  • Gender, Racialization and Ethnicity
    • SOCI 103 – Settler Colonialism & Canadian Society
    • SOCI 235 – Racialization and Ethnicity
    • SOCI 281 – Sociology of Genders
    • SOCI 382 – Sociology of Sexualities
    • SOCI 383 – Feminisms in Theory and Practice
    • SOCI 384 - Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and Indigenous Resurgence
    • SOCI 435 – Issues in Gender, Sexuality and Trans Communities
    • SOCI 430A – Issues in Racialization, Ethnicity, and Decolonization

 

Other courses that complement studies in this area include:

  • SOCI 204 – Self, Identity and Society
  • SOCI 205 – Sociological Perspectives on Family Relationships
  • SOCI 305B – Families and Social Change
  • SOCI 316 – Social Movements
  • SOCI 388 – Sociology of Food and Eating
  • SOCI 436 – Issues in Sociology and Social Justice

 

  • Crime, Deviance, and Law
    • SOCI 202 – Constructing Social Problems
    • SOCI 206 – Crime and Deviance
    • SOCI 307 – Moral Panics
    • SOCI 312 – White-Collar Crime
    • SOCI 313 – Sociology of Law
    • SOCI 346 – Sociology of Surveillance
    • SOCI 356 – International Crimes & Social Justice
    • SOCI 434 – Issues in Deviance, Crime, Law and Social Control

 

Other courses that complement studies in this area include:

  • SOCI 215 – Class and Social Inequality
  • SOCI 220 – Media and Contemporary Society
  • SOCI 235 – Racialization and Ethnicity
  • SOCI 281 – Sociology of Genders
  • SOCI 331 – Politics & Society
  • SOCI 436 – Issues in Sociology and Social Justice

 

  • Health, Aging, & Society
    • SOCI 285 – Health over the Life Course
    • SOCI 327 – International Perspectives on Inequities in Health and Health Care
    • SOCI 345 – Sociology of Mental Health
    • SOCI 385 – Sociology of Aging
    • SOCI 389 – Death and Dying
    • SOCI 432 – Issues in Health and Aging

 

Other courses that complement studies in this area include:

  • SOCI 202 – Constructing Social Problems
  • SOCI 204 – Self, Identity, and Society
  • SOCI 205 – Sociological Perspectives on Family Relationships
  • SOCI 215 – Class and Social Inequality
  • SOCI 235 – Racialization and Ethnicity
  • SOCI 281 – Sociology of Genders
  • SOCI 382 – Sociology of Sexualities
  • SOCI 433 – Issues in Demography and Families