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Main Office
Chilton Hall, Room 300

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #311157
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2296

Web site: www.unt.edu/soci

Daniel G. Rodeheaver, Chair

Cynthia M. Cready, Director of Graduate Studies
 

Faculty 

The department offers graduate programs in sociology.

Areas of concentration include (but are not limited to) social inequality, health and illness, and globalization and developing societies.

Research

Research in sociology at UNT covers a wide range of topics, from studies of individuals to organizations and the global community. Examples include studies of sustainable societies and social interactions of individuals within organizations, such as the study of the effects of nurses aides’ empowerment on job performance and the determinants of racial identities in the United States. Studies of whole organizations and social institutions includes the study of work teams in nursing homes, racially integrated churches and environmental groups. Studies of global communities include assessments of disaster preparedness, determinants of ecological sustainability and the worldwide impact of HIV/AIDS. Faculty also publish theoretically oriented research that addresses fundamental debates within the discipline of sociology. Faculty apply for and obtain research grants from funding sources such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Commonwealth Fund. Doctoral students are expected to engage in research with their faculty mentors and to conduct independent research projects.

Programs

• Sociology, MA
• Sociology, MS

• Sociology, PhD

• Sociology minor

Courses

• SOCI 5010 - Social and Cultural Foundations of Human Behavior
• SOCI 5030 - Seminar on Complex Organizations
• SOCI 5050 - The Development of Sociology
• SOCI 5100 - Seminar on Social Psychology
• SOCI 5150 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
• SOCI 5200 - Seminar on Research Methods and Design
• SOCI 5210 - Introduction to Social Statistics
• SOCI 5260 - Topics in Sociology
• SOCI 5300 - Seminar on Social Stratification
• SOCI 5310 - Seminar on Occupations and Professions
• SOCI 5320 - Seminar on the Family
• SOCI 5330 - Seminar on Race and Ethnicity
• SOCI 5350 - Seminar on Urbanization
• SOCI 5400 - Health Delivery Systems
• SOCI 5410 - Seminar in the Sociology of Health
• SOCI 5420 - Introduction to Health Services Research
• SOCI 5450 - Population and Society
• SOCI 5470 - Seminar on Juvenile Delinquency
• SOCI 5600 - Advanced Criminological Theory
• SOCI 5620 - Seminar in Victimology
• SOCI 5650 - Sociology of Education
• SOCI 5700 - Seminar on Social Gerontology
• SOCI 5900 - Special Problems
• SOCI 5910 - Special Problems
• SOCI 5940 - Sociology Internship
• SOCI 5950 - Master’s Thesis
• SOCI 6100 - Seminar on Sociological Theory
• SOCI 6200 - Seminar on Research Methods
• SOCI 6300 - Seminar on the Life Cycle
• SOCI 6400 - Seminar on the Metropolitan Community
• SOCI 6500 - Seminar on Social Organization and Disorganization
• SOCI 6900 - Special Problems
• SOCI 6910 - Special Problems
• SOCI 6940 - Individual Research
• SOCI 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation

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