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Main Office
Sycamore Hall, Room 288

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

Web site: www.unt.edu/soci

Donna Barnes, Chair

Gabe Ignatow, 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

Our department is home to outstanding faculty and academic programs and serves as a center for innovative research. The department’s signature strengths are in sociological theory, social science methodology, and in the sociological study of aging, crime, gender, health, morality, race/ethnicity, religion, and social inequality. Faculty publish empirical studies as well as theoretically oriented studies that address fundamental debates within the field of sociology.

Programs

• Sociology, MA
• Sociology, MS

• Sociology, PhD

• Sociology minor

Courses

• SOCI 5010 - Social and Cultural Foundations of Human Behavior
• SOCI 5030 - Complex Organizations
• SOCI 5050 - Sociological Theory
• SOCI 5100 - Social Psychology
• SOCI 5200 - Research Methods and Design
• SOCI 5210 - Introduction to Social Statistics
• SOCI 5260 - Topics in Sociology
• SOCI 5300 - 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 - Sociology of Health
• SOCI 5420 - Introduction to Health Services Research
• SOCI 5450 - Population and Society
• SOCI 5600 - Advanced Criminological Theory
• 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 6000 - Sociology Proseminar
• SOCI 6100 - Seminar on Sociological Theory
• SOCI 6101 - Seminar on Classical Sociological Theory
• SOCI 6102 - Seminar on Contemporary Sociological Theory
• SOCI 6200 - Seminar on Research Methods
• SOCI 6201 - Quantitative Research Methods and Design
• SOCI 6202 - Qualitative Research Methods and Design
• SOCI 6203 - Social Science Text Mining
• SOCI 6301 - Intermediate Statistics- Multiple Regression Analysis and Related Methods in Sociology
• SOCI 6302 - Advanced Statistics - Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling in Sociology
• SOCI 6401 - Comparative and Global Sociology
• SOCI 6402 - Population and Society
• SOCI 6500 - Topics in Sociology
• SOCI 6501 - Social Stratification
• SOCI 6502 - Race and Ethnicity
• SOCI 6503 - Sociology of Education
• SOCI 6504 - Development and Social Change
• SOCI 6601 - Health and Aging
• SOCI 6602 - Health Disparities
• SOCI 6603 - Medical Sociology
• SOCI 6701 - Sustainable Communities
• SOCI 6702 - Environmental Sociology
• SOCI 6703 - Urbanization
• SOCI 6900 - Special Problems
• SOCI 6910 - Special Problems
• SOCI 6940 - Individual Research
• SOCI 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation

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