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Sociology
Faculty List
Professors Emeriti
B. Baldus, Dr. Sc Pol
Y.M. Bodemann, Ph D
B. Fox, Ph D
A.R. Gillis, Ph D
E.B. Harvey, Ph D
N.L. Howell, Ph D
C.L. Jones, Ph D
M.J. Kelner, Ph D, LL D
C. Kruttschnitt, MS, Ph D
D.W. Magill, Ph D (N)
H.M. Makler, Ph D
W.M. Michelson, Ph D, FRSC
J. Myles, Ph D, FRSC
J.G. Reitz, BS, Ph D, FRSC
I.M. Zeitlin, Ph D (T)
Professor and Chair of the Department
S. Schieman, Ph D
Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Undergraduate Studies)
C. Caron, Ph D
Professor and Graduate Chair of the Department
M. Milkie, Ph D
Professor and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies)
M. Schafer, MS, Ph D
Professors
M. Boyd, Ph D, FRSC
J. Bryant, Ph D
R. Brym, Ph D
B.H. Erickson, Ph D
R. Levi, BCL, LLB, LLM, SJD
I. Peng, Ph D
S. Schieman, Ph D
L. Tepperman, Ph D (N)
S. Welsh, Ph D
B. Wheaton, Ph D
Associate Professors
B. Berry, Ph D
A.I. Green, Ph D
J.K. Lee, Ph D
Y. Lee, Ph D
V. Leschziner, Ph D
W.J. Magee, MS, Ph D
M. Schafer, MS, Ph D
J. Taylor, PhD
J.W.P. Veugelers, Ph D
Assistant Professors
S. Alegria, Ph D
M. Alexander, Ph D
I. Boeckmann, Ph D
F. Dokshin, Ph D
J. Horowitz, Ph D
A. Marin, Ph D
K. Pernell-Gallagher, Ph D
T. Shams, Ph D
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
C. Caron, Ph D
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
R. La Touche, MA, Ph D
Introduction
Sociology’s key principle is that patterned social relationships create opportunities for, and place constraints on, human action. The influence of this idea is widespread. New research agendas in law, literature, economics, and other disciplines reflect the notion that beyond individual motives, goals, values, beliefs and emotions, patterned social relationships help to make us who we are. Our courses and faculty research examine how patterned social relationships shape and are shaped by gender roles and families; health; immigration and ethnic relations; labour markets, work and social inequality; political structures and processes; crime, law and deviance; culture; cities; and networks, and communities.
To test explanations regarding the influence of social relationships on various aspects of human behaviour, sociologists collect and analyze observational, survey, experimental, and historical data. Accordingly, the sociological perspective and the research skills learned by studying sociology prepare students for a wide variety of careers in industry, government, education, politics, health and journalism. Medical, legal, and environmental fields report an increasing need for sociologists. Municipal, provincial and federal governments hire in areas like urban sociology, community relations, policy and planning, and statistical analysis. In private business, sociologists work in management consulting firms and polling organizations, as well as in labour relations and human resources.
A professional career in sociology requires training beyond the undergraduate level. However, the critical, analytical and research skills that undergraduate sociology students learn open many employment opportunities. Over a third of Canadian undergraduates in sociology go on to be employed in business, finance and administrative occupations, and just under a third in government service, social science, and educational fields.
Undergraduate Chair: Christian Caron, Room 286, 725 Spadina Ave., 416-978-8263, christian.caron@utoronto.ca
Undergraduate Administrator: Donna Ragbir, Room 284, 725 Spadina Ave., 416-946-4064, sociology.undergraduate@utoronto.ca
Enquiries: 416-978-3412 (choose option 2)
Undergraduate Program Information and Course Descriptions: available at https://sociology.utoronto.ca/
Regarding Sociology Programs
Enrolment in sociology programs is limited. Consult the Arts & Science Program Toolkit for application procedures.
NOTE 1: Obtaining 65% or more in SOC101Y or a combined average of 65% or more in SOC102H+SOC103H, SOC102H+SOC150H1, SOC103H+SOC150H1, or SOC100H1+SOC150H1 is required for entry into the sociology major and minor programs. Entry to the sociology specialist program at the end of the first year requires a minimum of 80% in SOC101Y or a minimum combined average of 80% in SOC102H+SOC103H, SOC102H+SOC150H1, SOC103H+SOC150H1, or SOC100H1+SOC150H1. Achieving the minimum grades does not guarantee acceptance into the programs. Credit for higher-level SOC courses will not waive these requirements.
NOTE 2: Transfer credits of SOC1**H without exclusion cannot be used to meet program admission or requirements.
Sociology Programs
Sociology Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE1013
This is a limited enrolment program. Note there are different options depending on whether a student has completed between 4.0 and 8.5 credits, or 9.0 or more credits. Students interested in the Sociology Specialist typically apply and enrol from the Sociology Major.
For students who have completed 9.0 or more credits:
Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:
• SOC201H1, SOC202H1, and SOC204H1
To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade average lower than 70% in these required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.
Special Requirement
• Students must be enrolled in the Sociology Major (ASMAJ1013)
For students who have completed between 4.0 and 8.5 credits:
Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:
To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade average lower than 80% in these required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.
Note:
Students cannot combine a Sociology Specialist program with another Sociology program (Major or Minor) for their degree.
(10.0 credits in Sociology)
1. SOC101Y1, or a combination of ( SOC102H1 and SOC103H1), ( SOC102H1 and SOC150H1), ( SOC103H1 and SOC150H1), or ( SOC100H1 and SOC150H1).
2. SOC201H1, SOC202H1, and SOC204H1
3. SOC251H1, SOC252H1, and SOC254H1
4. 2.0 SOC credits from 300-level "Program-Only" courses ( SOC319H1 – SOC354H1; Offerings will vary from year to year.).
5. 1.0 SOC credit at the 400-level
6. An additional 3.0 credits in Sociology at the 200 or 300-level (1.0 of which must be taken at the 300-level, i.e., 2.0 credits at the 200 or 300-level and 1.0 at the 300-level).
NOTES:
1. Students cannot take more than 1.0 credit at the 400-level without written permission from the Undergraduate Program Administrator.
2. Students cannot take more than 2.0 credits of the program-only courses without written permission from the Undergraduate Program Administrator.
Sociology Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1013
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.
Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:
To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade average lower than 65% in these required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.
Note:
Students cannot combine a Sociology Major program with another Sociology program (Specialist or Minor) for their degree.
(7.0 credits in Sociology)
1. SOC101Y1, or a combination of SOC102H1+ SOC103H1, SOC102H1+ SOC150H1, SOC103H1+ SOC150H1, or SOC100H1+ SOC150H1.
2. SOC201H1, SOC202H1, and SOC204H1
3. 1.0 credit from SOC251H1, SOC252H1, and SOC254H1
4. 1.0 SOC credit from 300-level "Program-Only" courses ( SOC319H1 – SOC354H1; Offerings will vary from year to year.).
5. 0.5 SOC credits at the 400-level
6. An additional 2.0 credits in Sociology at the 200 or 300-level (0.5 of which must be taken at the 300-level, i.e., 1.5 credits at the 200 or 300-level and 0.5 at the 300-level).
NOTES:
1. Students cannot take more than a 0.5 credit at the 400-level without written permission from the Undergraduate Program Administrator.
2. Students cannot take more than 1.0 credit of the program-only courses without written permission from the Undergraduate Program Administrator.
Sociology Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1013
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.
Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:
To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a final grade average lower than 65% in these required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.
Note:
Students cannot combine a Sociology Major program with another Sociology program (Specialist or Minor) for their degree.
Combined Degree Program (CDP) in Arts and Education: Sociology (Major), Honours Bachelor of Arts/Master of Teaching
The Combined Degree Program in Arts/Science and Education is designed for students interested in studying the intersections of teaching subjects and Education, coupled with professional teacher preparation. Students earn an Honours Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) and an accredited professional Master of Teaching (MT) degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). They will be recommended to the Ontario College of Teachers for an Ontario Teacher’s Certificate of Qualifications as elementary or secondary school teachers. The CDP permits the completion of both degrees in six years with 1.0 FCE that may be counted towards both the undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Program requirements:
1. Minor in Education and Society, Victoria College
2. Major in Sociology (first teaching subject)
3. Minor in an area corresponding to the second teaching subject as determined by OISE (see http://pepper.oise.utoronto.ca/~jhewitt/mtresources/intermediate_senior_teaching_subject_prerequisites_2016-17.pdf)
See here for additional information on the CDP, including admission, path to completion and contact information.
Regarding Sociology Courses
Note:
Transfer credits of SOC1**H without exclusion cannot be used to meet program admission or requirements.
400-level Courses
Note: Sociology majors cannot take more than 0.5 SOC FCE at the 400 level and Sociology specialists cannot take more than 1.0 SOC FCE at the 400 level, without written permission from the Undergraduate Program Administrator.
Sociology Courses
SOC100H1 - Introduction to Sociology I: Sociological Perspectives
This course will challenge your views on a wide range of issues that affect us all. It will also excite your interest in a unique sociological way of understanding your world. We will analyze the globalization of culture, emerging patterns of class, race, and gender inequality in Canada and internationally, criminal and deviant behaviour, and so on. You will learn to understand these and other pressing social issues by analyzing the way the social world is organized. These topics are further taken up in the sequel to this course, SOC150: Introduction to Sociology II: Sociological Inquiries.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC150H1 - Introduction to Sociology II: Sociological Inquiries
In the sequel to SOC100H1: Introduction to Sociology I: Sociological Perspectives, this course will explore in more depth the topic of social inequality and the contemporary debates that animate sociology. We may like to think of ourselves as perfectly free but powerful social forces open up some opportunities and close off others, constraining our freedom and helping to make us what we are. By examining the operation of these social forces, sociology can help us know ourselves. The course is also about skills-building, skills useful not only for success at U of T, but beyond the walls of the university.
Exclusion: SOC101Y, (SOC102H + SOC103H), SOC200H1, SOC200Y1, SOCB05H3, SOC221H5, SOC200Y5
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC196H1 - Global Cities and Urban Refugees: Connecting South and North
The majority of refugees and asylum seekers today live in cities, above all, in the Global South. This course will introduce and critically assess key theories and concepts on forced migration in relation to cities from a global perspective. By drawing on a wide range of literature and case studies from around the world, the course will explore and compare cities across the Global South and North around questions of law, governance, and politics related to urban refugees and asylum seekers. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC197H1 - Future “Agents” & Social Relations: Considering Sociology in a World of Robots, Cyborgs, Bioengineered Agents & Tools
Hours: 24L
Some people are worried that we risk becoming less human if we allow ourselves or others to engage is widespread self-transformation through the insertion of some kinds of devices into human bodies (e.g., computers, becoming cyborgs) or as a result of interventions such as genetic engineering , etc. Others are concerned that the use of some technologies, or barriers to their use, will increase global inequalities. In this course we will read, talk, and write about these and related issues. We will take a sociological approach, which means that we will attend to contextual forces that shape practices, and material flows, and the meaning of objects. Students will present their final paper in class. Restricted to first-year students. Not available for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC198H1 - The Social Networks of Students
This course is a First-Year Foundation Seminar and provides an opportunity for exploration of different topics and themes. Social networks are the webs of connections between people, the mesh that weaves people into communities and societies. In this course, you will learn about social networks by examining the ones around you: what do student's social networks look like? How do they change from high school, to university, and beyond? You will learn, first hand, how researchers study social networks, and how we work to understand their association with important outcomes like academic achievement, graduation, job-finding, and more. Restricted to first-year students. Not available for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC199Y1 - How We Use Time in Everyday Life
This seminar examines how people use time in their everyday lives: the content, the interpersonal and structural circumstances, and the implications. The seminar will include an examination of seminal writings about people's use of time and hands-on practice in the strategies and techniques of analyzing available data, including the formulation of questions and approaches to answering them. Students will acquire an appreciation not only of the concept of time and how it helps explain important issues in the social sciences but also of how they use time in their daily lives and how time-use analysis can help them better understand many situations. Several skills will be developed in this seminar, including reading, writing, expressing points of view, and asking and answering research questions by using numerical data and computers to organize, analyze, and show results clearly. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC201H1 - Classical Sociological Theory
Introduction to the history, nature, and role of sociological theory, through an examination of the works of key classical theorists such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and others. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC203H1; SOC231H5; SOCB42H3
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC202H1 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Sociology
Introduction in quantitative social science research from descriptive statistics to hypothesis testing using various strategies for the analysis of bivariate relationships. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC200Y5, SOC222H5, ECO220Y1, ECO227Y1, GGR270H1, PSY201H1, STA220H1, STA248H1, POL222H1, POL232H1, POL242Y1, POL322H1, STA288H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC204H1 - Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Sociology
Introduction to the methods and issues of qualitative research, the theories, methods for data collection and analysis, and the personal and ethical issues relating to qualitative research. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC302H1; SOCC23H3; SOC387H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC205H1 - Urban Sociology
This course reviews theories of urban genesis and urban form; the interrelationship of urbanization, industrialization and modernization, issues in urban living (housing, transportation, urban-renewal, poverty, unemployment, etc.); urban social networks (ethnic and cultural heterogeneity, neighbourhood, community and other voluntary associations).
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC207H1 - Sociology of Work & Occupations
The nature and meaning of work in relation to changes in the position of the professions, unions and government, of women and minority groups, and in industrial societies more generally. Career choice and strategies, occupational mobility, and individual satisfaction at work.
Exclusion: SOC227H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC208H1 - Introduction to Social Policy
This course introduces students to the concepts, history and development of social policy in economically developed welfare states. It examines the problems and concepts of the policy process, exploring the political, economic, and institutional frameworks that structure public choices about social policy in Canada, and compare systems of social policy around the world.
Exclusion: SOC297H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Introduction to Social Policy), offered in Winter 2017; SOC240H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC209H1 - Sexuality and Modernity
This course examines questions related to sexuality, with a special focus on the social construction of sexual identity, practice, community and desire. To do so, we proceed self consciously with a critical analysis of the modern study of sexuality, and the ways in which sexual science, as a kind of social practice, has affected the construction and regulation of sexual orientation.
Exclusion: SOC395H1 (taken in Winter 2015, Winter 2016), SOC387H1 (taken in Fall 2016, Fall 2017), SOC386H1 (taken in Winter 2018)
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC210H1 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
The course explores the concepts of race and ethnicity and major theories to understand race and ethnic relations.
Exclusion: SOC210Y1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC212H1 - Sociology of Crime & Deviance
This course provides an overview of the study of crime and deviance. We critically examine how scholars have gone about studying crime and deviance (the methods they use and the statistics they employ) as well as the major sociological explanations for crime and deviance. We also consider the empirical evidence as it relates to the validity of these explanations and some of the policy fallout from different theoretical approaches.
Exclusion: SOC211H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC213H1 - Sociological Social Psychology
This course provides an introduction to the systematic study of the influence of individuals, groups, and society on individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours from a sociological perspective. The course emphasizes interaction among individuals, between an individual and a group, or among groups, all situated within particular social contexts. One core emphasis involves the ways that individual-level processes contribute to explaining social inequality in social groups and organizations. Topics include identity processes, social cognitions, attitudes, emotions, status processes, power relations, legitimacy, and justice.
Exclusion: PSY220H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC214H1 - Sociology of the Family
This course examines diverse family patterns, to show the economic, political and cultural factors that influence families. A brief social history of family paves the way for an examination of the various family patterns common in Canada today. Special attention is paid to the gender relations at the heart of family.
Exclusion: SOCB49H3; SOC244H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC218H1 - Asian Communities in Canada
The course will explore the structures and processes of Asian communities in Canada. Historical development of various Asian communities will be explored.
Exclusion: SOC342Y1/SOC394Y1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC220H1 - Social Stratification
This course is concerned with the causes and consequences of economic inequality. More specifically, it explores how achieved and ascribed characteristics are related to social class and related economic outcomes. Although some of the material will be comparative and pertain to modern Democracies generally, emphasis will be on Canadian society.
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC240H1 - Sociology of Law
Hours: 24L
This course asks students to think critically about the role of law in society, and to develop a sociological understanding of law and legal institutions. The course will include theoretical approaches to understanding the role of law and legal authority, and the constitutive ways in which law affects, shapes, and is negotiated in everyday life. In addition, attention will be paid to the legal profession, including empirical research on lawyers, legal careers, and their relationship to fields of practice, with an emphasis on the relationship between the structure of the legal profession and law as a democratic institution.
Exclusion: SOC293H1 (Topics: Sociology of Law), offered in Summer 2018, Winter 2019, Summer 2019; SOC396H1 (Topics: Sociology of Law), offered in Winter 2013
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC243H1 - Sociology of Health and Illness
This course examines (1) the social causes of illness and disease, (2) the experience of illness, and social processes that shape both of these issues, including medicalization. It focuses on population health, the relation between agency and structure, and macro-micro connections. Professional health care is discussed to the extent that it provides context for analyses of illness patterns and experiences.
Exclusion: SOC239H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC246H1 - Sociology of Aging
This course deals with population aging, cohort effects, inter-generational relations, historical variation in effects of social environment on aging, how health and family relationships vary with age, and social policies related to aging. The whole life course is considered, but the emphasis on adulthood and old age.
Exclusion: SOC334H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC249H1 - Sociology of Migration
This course examines contemporary migration flows, types and causes of migration, theories of migration, immigration policies, and migrant integration with emphasis on Canada.
Exclusion: SOC307Y1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC250Y1 - Sociology of Religion
This course will examine religious beliefs, practices, and experiences from a historical-sociological and comparative perspective. Classical and contemporary theories will be reviewed and applied to investigate such topics as: the social origins of religions; the formation of religious communities; heresies, schisms and the making of orthodoxies; secularization and fundamentalism; cults and new religious movements; religious regulation of the body and person; and the variable linkages of religion to politics, war, art and science.
Exclusion: RLG210Y1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC251H1 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
A selective introduction to major contemporary thinkers and approaches whose ideas have achieved wide influence, as well as an on-going inquiry into the nature and role of sociological analysis. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC376H1; SOC232H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC252H1 - Intermediate Quantitative Methods in Sociology
Provides students with the opportunity to develop an understanding of the logic of multivariate analysis by applying various strategies for the analysis of complex multivariate data. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC300H1, ECO220Y1, PSY202H1, STA221H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC254H1 - Intermediate Qualitative Methods in Sociology
An in-depth examination of key methods of qualitative research, and an opportunity to design and conduct qualitative research that draws from key debates, methodologies, and methods in the field. Restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC256H1 - Lives and Societies
Characteristics of very different kinds of societies, from hunters and gatherers to modern postindustrial countries, and how these affect features of individual lives including: life stages, their status, and transitions between them; the variety of possible life courses; rates of birth and death, and their implications for people, their kin, and their societies.
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC260H1 - Introduction to Political Sociology
An introduction to key topics in political sociology such as social movements, electoral alignments, parties as organizations, the welfare state, revolution, policymaking, state formation, nationalism and imperialism.
Exclusion: SOCB30H3; SOC335H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC265H1 - Gender and Society
This course first explores how sociologists conceptualize gender and study gender. Then, it explores the varied nature of gender relations, with a focus on the social organization of gender today.
Exclusion: SOCB22H3; SOC275H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC270H1 - Introduction to Social Networks
Hours: 24L
This course covers the fundamentals of the social network perspective, including a short introduction to social network theory and a survey of major findings in social network research. We will study how patterns of relations between social actors develop and how they affect outcomes such as health, status attainment, and inequality. Students will write a proposal to conduct research from a social network perspective.
Exclusion: SOC355H1, SOC294H1 (Topics: Introduction to Social Networks) offered in Winter 2018 and Winter 2020
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC280H1 - Sociology of Culture
The course examines the social origins of culture, the cultural patterns found in various groups and institutions, and the influence culture has on important aspects of society.
Exclusion: SOC281H1; SOC202H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC282H1 - Introduction to Social Problems
Examines a variety of widely discussed social problems, including poverty, crime, substance abuse, sexism, climate change and urban sprawl, using sociological theories to understand the causes of these problems. Will also examine the “social construction” of these social problems and factors that influence public attention and concern.
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC293H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC294H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC295H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC296H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC297H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC298H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Recommended Preparation: SOC150H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC303H1 - Family Demography
Uses empirical sociological studies to describe and analyze the political, social and economic implications of diverse family relationships and living arrangements. Examines the social and economic consequences of inconsistencies between public definitions of family and the realities of family life. Introduces students to the statistical analysis of the demographic features of families using census data.
Exclusion: SOC320H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC214H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC304H1 - Status and Class Mobility
Shows how getting ahead or becoming downwardly mobile are affected by social as well as economic factors. Links the experience of mobility to larger scale social change.
Exclusion: SOC321H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC306H1 - Economic Sociology
This course offers a sociological account of economic phenomena. It examines the sociological perspectives on production, consumption, exchange and distribution, economic crises, and other economic matters. In addition to exploring economic behavior in the corporate and financial worlds, the course also examines behavior in households, markets for intimacy, and illegal markets.
Exclusion: SOC386H1F (2016/2017), SOC323H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC308H1 - Global Inequality
This course examines the social processes that characterize stratification and social inequality across the globe, by looking at whether global inequality is growing, shrinking or stagnant and the impact of globalization on global inequality, with particular emphasis on examining disparities over time in education, income/wealth and health.
Exclusion: SOC395H1S (2016/2017), SOC345H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC309H1 - HIV and AIDS: Social Policies and Programs
Explores and discusses specific theories of action. Applies theories to various factors associated with AIDS/HIV. Examines political, scientific, health, social, economic, and cultural environments. This course forces students to examine the hidden theoretical assumptions surrounding AIDS/HIV.
Exclusion: SOC309Y1, SOC324H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC310H1 - Sociology of Atrocities
Hours: 24L
This course focuses on the sociology of atrocities. We focus on the range of social actors and processes involved when atrocities occur, how we identify, name, and respond to atrocities (such as genocide or crimes against humanity), the behavior of bystanders and intervenors, cultural trauma and the effects of atrocities, and processes of commemoration. We investigate the collective and social dynamics to try and explain the role of individuals, groups, and institutional actors in committing atrocities, including the role of group identities, bureaucracies, collective decision-making, shared repertoires, legacies of hate, and peer networks. We study the role of other actors – in particular legal institutions, but also humanitarian bodies, journalists, and others – in identifying, naming and sometimes responding to these atrocities, along with sociological evidence about how they do so and the efficacy of any such response.
Exclusion: SOC330H1; SOC397H1 (Selected Topics in Sociological Research: International Criminal Justice & Atrocities), offered in Fall 2013, Winter 2015 and Winter 2016
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC311H1 - Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
Examines the economic, social, cultural and political impacts of 20th century immigration in Canada, and emerging race and ethnic relations. Topics include immigration policy; population impact; community formation; labour markets; enclave economies; welfare use by immigrants; the criminal justice system; racial conflict; multiculturalism and race; and equity policies.
Exclusion: SOC336H1, SOC347H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC312H1 - Population and Society
This introductory course examines Canada's population in a global context, covering a broad range of population issues and perspectives. Topics include (a) demographic data and methods, (b) population composition in terms of age, sex, and nuptiality, (c) demographic processes of fertility, mortality, internal and international migration, (d) the relationship between population change and urbanization, and (e) the role of social policy on population change. For all course topics, the instructor will examine historical and cross-national trends and review proposed explanations.
Exclusion: SOC312Y1, SOC325H1, SOC356H5
Recommended Preparation: SOC200H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC313H1 - Social Control
This course examines how society has gone about controlling specific types of deviants (e.g., gang members, sex and drug offenders) and acts of deviance (e.g., organized crime, the deviance of social control agents). In examining these individuals and acts, attention is also directed to why they are defined as deviant and sanctioned, and why some types of deviance are less likely to be detected and sanctioned than others. Finally, consideration is also given to a range of sanctions that have been used to control deviance and the empirical evidence on their effectiveness.
Exclusion: SOC326H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC212H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC315H1 - Domestic Violence
This course will provide an overview of the different forms of domestic criminal violence, concentrating primarily on intimate partner violence and child abuse. We will focus on the methodological problems in assessing the nature and extent of these types of violence, the risk factors and correlates of both offending and victimization and the theoretical explanations that have been offered for these crimes. We also consider the social and legal responses to intimate partner violence and child abuse.
Exclusion: SOC328H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC212H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC316H1 - Sociology of Health Care
Examines factors that influence the organizational structure of health care systems, how these organizations develop, how they are maintained, and how they can be change.
Exclusion: SOC244H1; SOC333H5; SOC346H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC319H1 - Immigration and Employment
Hours: 24L/12T
This course examines the labour market and employment situation of immigrants emphasizing recent Canadian experience in comparative context. Topics include immigrant human capital, declining immigrant earnings, immigrant skill-underutilization, impact of the knowledge economy, racial discrimination, labour market structure and unionization, immigrant entrepreneurship and experiences of the Canadian-born second generation. This is a program-only course and is restricted to Sociology Majors and Specialists.
Exclusion: SOC370H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC320H1 - Family Demography
Uses empirical sociological studies to describe and analyze the political, social and economic implications of diverse family relationships and living arrangements. Examines the social and economic consequences of inconsistencies between public definitions of family and the realities of family life. Introduces students to the statistical analysis of the demographic features of families using census data. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC303H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC214H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC321H1 - Status and Class Mobility
Shows how getting ahead or becoming downwardly mobile are affected by social as well as economic factors. Links the experience of mobility to larger scale social change. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC304H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC323H1 - Economic Sociology
This course offers a sociological account of economic phenomena. It examines the sociological perspectives on production, consumption, exchange and distribution, economic crises, and other economic matters. In addition to exploring economic behavior in the corporate and financial worlds, the course also examines behavior in households, markets for intimacy, and illegal markets. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC306H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC324H1 - HIV and AIDS: Social Policies and Programs
Explores and discusses specific theories of action. Applies theories to various factors associated with AIDS/HIV. Examines political, scientific, health, social, economic, and cultural environments. This course forces students to examine the hidden theoretical assumptions surrounding AIDS/HIV. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC309H1; SOC309Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC325H1 - Population and Society
This introductory course examines Canada's population in a global context, covering a broad range of population issues and perspectives. Topics include (a) demographic data and methods, (b) population composition in terms of age, sex, and nuptiality, (c) demographic processes of fertility, mortality, internal and international migration, (d) the relationship between population change and urbanization, and (e) the role of social policy on population change. For all course topics, the instructor will examine historical and cross-national trends and review proposed explanations. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC312H1; SOC356H5
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC326H1 - Social Control
This course examines how society has gone about controlling specific types of deviants (e.g., gang members, sex and drug offenders) and acts of deviance (e.g., organized crime, the deviance of social control agents). In examining these individuals and acts, attention is also directed to why they are defined as deviant and sanctioned, and why some types of deviance are less likely to be detected and sanctioned than others. Finally, consideration is also given to a range of sanctions that have been used to control deviance and the empirical evidence on their effectiveness. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC313H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC212H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC328H1 - Domestic Violence
This course will provide an overview of the different forms of domestic criminal violence, concentrating primarily on intimate partner violence and child abuse. We will focus on the methodological problems in assessing the nature and extent of these types of violence, the risk factors and correlates of both offending and victimization and the theoretical explanations that have been offered for these crimes. We also consider the social and legal responses to intimate partner violence and child abuse. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC315H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC212H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC329H1 - Social Movements
This course introduces students to the sociological study of collective action. Students will explore how movements in a variety of historical and global contexts endeavor to produce social change. In this process, we will examine political and cultural opportunities and obstacles, organizational dynamics, resources, collective action frames, strategies and tactics. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC279H1; SOC360H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC330H1 - Sociology of Atrocities
Hours: 24L/12T
This course focuses on the sociology of atrocities. We focus on the range of social actors and processes involved when atrocities occur, how we identify, name, and respond to atrocities (such as genocide or crimes against humanity), the behavior of bystanders and intervenors, cultural trauma and the effects of atrocities, and processes of commemoration. We investigate the collective and social dynamics to try and explain the role of individuals, groups, and institutional actors in committing atrocities, including the role of group identities, bureaucracies, collective decision-making, shared repertoires, legacies of hate, and peer networks. We study the role of other actors – in particular legal institutions, but also humanitarian bodies, journalists, and others – in identifying, naming and sometimes responding to these atrocities, along with sociological evidence about how they do so and the efficacy of any such response. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC310H1; SOC397H1 (Selected Topics in Sociological Research: International Criminal Justice & Atrocities), offered in Fall 2013, Winter 2015 and Winter 2016
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC331H1 - Sociology of Technology
This course invites students to critically examine the interplay between technology and society. We will discuss how our interactions with technologies, including computers and the Internet, ICTs, social media, and other digital technologies, have become central for our understanding of contemporary social life. This course provides an overview of the sociology of technology, encompassed by various topics in which technology intersects with other areas of sociological inquiry, such as social stratification, community and networks, criminology and social control, work and labour, health and aging, and many others. This is a program-only course and is restricted to Sociology Majors and Specialists.
Exclusion: SOC356H1; SOC356Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC332H1 - Lives in Canada
The life course in Canada, in the twentieth century and today, with some comparisons to other first world countries. How lives have changed over the past century; how lives are affected by history and social location; the impact of the life trajectories on health and crime. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC357H1; SOC257H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC220H1 or SOC281H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC333H1 - Quality of Institutions and Lives
Theory and research on quality of life encompass studies of subjective dimensions of individual wellbeing, such as happiness, and studies that focus on objective indicators of the quality of institutions and settings, such as child mortality rates. Quality-of-life theories range from (sometimes utopian) classical sociological theories with a historical and political slant to recent interdisciplinary theories that integrate sociological, psychological, and philosophical approaches. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC362H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC334H1 - Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
An overview of the link between social inequality and emotional inequality, focusing on differences in mental health across social groups and the role of stress and coping resources in explaining group differences. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC363H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC335H1 - Urban Health
Cities are home to particular populations (the poor, the homeless, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and the young and old) and have distinct risks and protections relevant to health. Patterns of health in cities, historical developments, and emerging literature and methodology are used to uncover how everyday settings influence health. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC364H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC336H1 - Transnational Asia
This course explores how transnational flows of capital, labor, ideas, and culture are reconstituting the ways in which we organize our political, economic, and cultural life by particularly focusing on Asia, the region that has been at the center of this global transformation. How has the notion of the "transnational" evolved and invited critical reevaluations? What has been the place of Asian countries in this global process and what political, economic, social, and cultural changes do they experience? By examining these questions, this course aims to enhance our understanding of contemporary Asian societies closely tied with each other and the rest of the world. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC372H1; SOC351H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Transnational Asia), offered in Winter 2019; SOC395H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Transnational Asia), offered in Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC337H1 - Gender Relations
This course examines the dynamics of gender in daily life – in sexuality and intimate relations, in parenting and families, and in paid work and workplace organizations, as well as in popular culture. It examines the social construction of gender in individuals and in social organizations, in order to understand gender inequality. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC365H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC265H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC338H1 - Sociology of Women and Work
This course focuses on women's paid and unpaid work and the relationship between the two. It analyzes the gender gap in earnings, the sexual segregation of the labour force, the restructuring of paid work, sexual harassment, paid domestic work, and the division of housework and child care. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC366H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC339H1 - Race, Class, and Gender
In this class, we analyze the ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality interact and shape communities, life opportunities, perspectives and politics. We will read contemporary ethnographies concerning work, socialization, and urban life against current sociological theories about inequality and intersectionality, and identity. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC367H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC340H1 - Comparative Political Sociology
The study of comparative (historical and cross-national) variation in outcomes that are the subject of research by political sociologists. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC371H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC260H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC342H1 - The Sociology of Women and International Migration
Examines the international migration of women in postindustrial economies with emphasis on Canada. Topics include: theories of female migration; the impacts of immigration policies; migration trends and entry status; integration issues pertaining to family, language knowledge, citizenship and economic status; labour market barriers and public policy considerations. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC383H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC343H1 - Neighbourhoods & Communities in Canada
Uses recent and historical data to demonstrate the changing social characteristics of local neighbourhoods and larger communities, as these have been affected by industrialization, immigration and other factors and as they affect the life chances of their residents. Provides students with active learning experiences through research activities using Census data. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC384H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC202H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC344H1 - Sociology of Everyday Life
This course explores the phenomenological and organizational foundation of everyday experience. It focuses on the structure and social interactions that shape everyday life, and explains the social order that makes everyday life seem smooth and relatively effortless. The course offers experience in qualitative research and writing. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC388H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC345H1 - Global Inequality
This course examines the social processes that characterize stratification and social inequality across the globe, by looking at whether global inequality is growing, shrinking or stagnant and the impact of globalization on global inequality, with particular emphasis on examining disparities over time in education, income/wealth and health. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC308H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC346H1 - Sociology of Health Care
Examines factors that influence the organizational structure of health care systems, how these organizations develop, how they are maintained, and how they can be changed. Topics also include the social forces that influence the relationship between healthcare providers and consumers. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC316H1; SOC244H1; SOC333H5
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC347H1 - Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
Examines the economic, social, cultural and political impacts of 20th century immigration in Canada, and emerging race and ethnic relations. Topics include immigration policy; population impact; community formation; labour markets; enclave economies; welfare use by immigrants; the criminal justice system; racial conflict; multiculturalism and race; and equity policies. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC311H1; SOC336H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC348H1 - Culture and Inequality
How location in socioeconomic, ethnic, gender, and generational groups shapes individual cultural repertories; how culture affects individual positions in stratification hierarchies; and the role of culture in group boundaries and struggles. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC281H1; SOC381H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC349H1 - Deconstructing 'Muslim American' - Race, Nationalism, and Religion
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Muslim Americans have been once again been cast as both threatening “outsiders” as well as examples of what makes the United States a “nation of immigrants.” What do these contestations teach us about how race, nationalism, and globalization shape immigrant identities? This course examines a range of topics, from everyday boundary-making to ongoing global politics pertaining to different Muslim groups in the United States, often drawing comparisons with Muslims in other Western countries. Course materials include theoretical overviews, research articles, survey reports, book chapters, newspapers, films, and T.V. shows. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC373H1; SOC394H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Deconstructing "Muslim American" - Race, Nationalism and Religion), offered in Winter 2019; SOC352H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Deconstructing "Muslim American" - Race, Nationalism and Religion), offered in Winter 2020
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC350H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity for students to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC351H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity for students to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC352H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity for students to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC353H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity for students to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC354H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity for students to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. This is a program-only course and is restricted to sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC356H1 - Sociology of Technology
This course invites students to critically examine the interplay between technology and society. We will discuss how our interactions with technologies, including computers and the Internet, ICTs, social media, and other digital technologies, have become central for our understanding of contemporary social life. This course provides an overview of the sociology of technology, encompassed by various topics in which technology intersects with other areas of sociological inquiry, such as social stratification, community and networks, criminology and social control, work and labour, health and aging, and many others.
Exclusion: SOC331H1; SOC356Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC357H1 - Lives in Canada
The life course in Canada, in the twentieth century and today, with some comparisons to other first world countries. How lives have changed over the past century; how lives are affected by history and social location; the impact of the life trajectories on health and crime.
Exclusion: SOC257H1, SOC332H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC220H1 or SOC281H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC360H1 - Social Movements
This course examines the sociological study of collective action. Students will explore how movements in a variety of historical and global contexts endeavor to produce social change. In this process, we will examine political and cultural opportunities and obstacles, organizational dynamics, resources, collective action frames, strategies and tactics.
Exclusion: SOC279H1; SOC329H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC362H1 - Quality of Institutions and Lives
Theory and research on quality of life encompass studies of subjective dimensions of individual wellbeing, such as happiness, and studies that focus on objective indicators of the quality of institutions and settings, such as child mortality rates. Quality-of-life theories range from (sometimes utopian) classical sociological theories with a historical and political slant to recent interdisciplinary theories that integrate sociological, psychological, and philosophical approaches.
Exclusion: SOC333H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC363H1 - Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
An overview of the link between social inequality and emotional inequality, focusing on differences in mental health across social groups and the role of stress and coping resources in explaining group differences.
Exclusion: SOC334H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC364H1 - Urban Health
Cities are home to particular populations (the poor, the homeless, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and the young and old) and have distinct risks and protections relevant to health. Patterns of health in cities, historical developments, and emerging literature and methodology are used to uncover how everyday settings influence health.
Exclusion: SOC335H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC365H1 - Gender Relations
This course examines the dynamics of gender in daily life – in sexuality and intimate relations, in parenting and families, and in paid work and workplace organizations, as well as in popular culture. It examines the social construction of gender in individuals and in social organizations, in order to understand gender inequality.
Exclusion: SOC337H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC265H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC366H1 - Sociology of Women and Work
This course focuses on women's paid and unpaid work and the relationship between the two. It analyzes the gender gap in earnings, the sexual segregation of the labour force, the restructuring of paid work, sexual harassment, paid domestic work, and the division of housework and child care.
Exclusion: SOC338H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC367H1 - Race, Class, and Gender
In this class, we analyze the ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality interact and shape communities, life opportunities, perspectives and politics. We will read contemporary ethnographies concerning work, socialization, and urban life against current sociological theories about inequality and intersectionality, and identity.
Exclusion: SOC339H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC370H1 - Immigration and Employment
Hours: 24L
This course examines the labour market and employment situation of immigrants emphasizing recent Canadian experience in comparative context. Topics include immigrant human capital, declining immigrant earnings, immigrant skill-underutilization, impact of the knowledge economy, racial discrimination, labour market structure and unionization, immigrant entrepreneurship and experiences of the Canadian-born second generation.
Exclusion: SOC319H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC317Y1 or SOC336H1 or SOC366H1 or SOC383H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC371H1 - Comparative Political Sociology
The study of comparative (historical and cross-national) variation in outcomes that are the subject of research by political sociologists.
Exclusion: SOC340H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC260H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC372H1 - Transnational Asia
Hours: 24L
This course approaches Asia from a transnational perspective to enhance our understanding of the complexities involved in Asia’s contemporary transformations. By departing from traditional nation-state-oriented analyses, this class explores how Asia shapes and is shaped by trans-Pacific politics, war and colonial legacies, global capitalism, labor migration, international norms of citizenship, urban development, and flows of ideas and popular culture. By closely examining Asia’s transnational interconnectedness, we question the prevalent notion of Asia and regional studies and highlight the contradictions and challenges Asia faces in its political, economic, social, and cultural spheres. This critical approach is expected to offer a deeper investigation of Asia in and of itself while critiquing dominant assumptions and frameworks found in existing approaches to Asia.
Exclusion: SOC336H1; SOC351H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Transnational Asia), offered in Winter 2019; SOC395H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Transnational Asia), offered in Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC373H1 - Deconstructing 'Muslim American' - Race, Nationalism, and Religion
Hours: 24L/12T
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Muslim Americans have once again been cast as both threatening “outsiders” as well as examples of what makes the United States a “nation of immigrants.” What do these contestations teach us about how race, nationalism, and globalization shape immigrant identities? Taking Muslim Americans as a case study, this course will examine a range of topics, from everyday boundary-making to ongoing global politics pertaining to different Muslim groups in the United States, often drawing comparison with Muslims in other Western countries. More broadly, the course aims to unpack how various global and local/national forces shape the contours, dimensions, and meanings attached to an identity category. To that end, the course begins with some prominent sociological theories, such as intersectionality, double-consciousness, and Orientalism. We will apply these theoretical lenses to analyze issues of race, globalization, cultural citizenship, media representation, and political integration in Muslim American and immigrant experiences.
Exclusion: SOC349H1; SOC394H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Deconstructing "Muslim American" - Race, Nationalism and Religion), offered in Winter 2019; SOC352H1 (New Topics in Sociology: Deconstructing "Muslim American" - Race, Nationalism and Religion), offered in Winter 2020
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC381H1 - Culture and Inequality
How location in socioeconomic, ethnic, gender, and generational groups shapes individual cultural repertories; how culture affects individual positions in stratification hierarchies; and the role of culture in group boundaries and struggles.
Exclusion: SOC281H1; SOC348H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC383H1 - The Sociology of Women and International Migration
Examines the international migration of women in postindustrial economies with emphasis on Canada. Topics include: theories of female migration; the impacts of immigration policies; migration trends and entry status; integration issues pertaining to family, language knowledge, citizenship and economic status; labour market barriers and public policy considerations.
Exclusion: SOC342H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC384H1 - Neighbourhoods & Communities in Canada
Uses recent and historical data to demonstrate the changing social characteristics of local neighbourhoods and larger communities, as these have been affected by industrialization, immigration and other factors and as they affect the life chances of their residents. Provides students with active learning experiences through research activities using Census data.
Exclusion: SOC343H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC202H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC386H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC387H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC388H1 - Sociology of Everyday Life
This course explores the phenomenological and organizational foundation of everyday experience. It focuses on the structure and social interactions that shape everyday life, and explains the social order that makes everyday life seem smooth and relatively effortless. The course offers experience in qualitative research and writing.
Exclusion: SOC344H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC390Y1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 300-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC391H1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 300-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC392H1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 300-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC393H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC393Y0 - Selected Topics in Sociological Research
SOC394H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC395H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC396H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC397H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC398H0 - Research Excursions
An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC398Y0 - Research Excursions
An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
SOC408H1 - Advanced Studies in Organizations
Hours: 24L
This course covers central issues in the field of organizational sociology. It explores different perspectives on why complex organizations look and operate the way that they do, and examines the social consequences of their behavior. The first part of the course focuses on the evolution of the modern firm. We will trace the history of different models of management and strategy, and evaluate their relative efficacy. The second part of the course examines how organizations shape, and are shaped by, their environments. The third part of the course will explore how organizational behavior influences social inequality, and how social inequality shapes the way that modern organizations function. We will make use of both social scientific analyses and Harvard Business School case studies. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC489H1 (Topics: Sociology of Organizations), offered in Fall 2017 and Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC409H1 - Sexuality and Research Design
Hours: 24L
Research designs are much like jigsaw puzzles, but harder:they require scholars to carefully connect a variety of distinct yet intricately linked piecesinto a thematically consistent, practical and defensible whole. Few tasks in the research process are as commonplace and as riddled with difficulty. This semester length course will provide a forum for students to compose a research design on the topic of sexuality using qualitative approaches that include in-depth interview and ethnography. Throughout the course, students will read a variety of works that describe the goals, procedures, and underlying logic of research design. These works will draw from articles and chapters on methodological problems and issues, and also from actual studies that use in-depth interview and ethnography in sexuality studies. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC485H1 (Topics: Sexuality of Research Design), offered in Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2019, SOC497H1 (Topics: Sexuality of Research Design), offered in Fall 2016
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC412H1 - Medicalization of Deviance
This course examines the sociological implications associated with the growing dominance of psychiatry over designating and managing the margins of ‘normality’ and ‘deviance.’ It covers the evolution of the DSM and rise of deinstitutionalization, the importance of stigma and symbolic interactionist understandings of psychiatric diagnoses, and the methods of social control used to mitigate risk and reduce social deviance within the psychiatric and criminal justice systems. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the social implications of mental health labels. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC313H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC413H1 - Sociology of Punishment
This course considers the history of penology, theories of penal development and current trends. Particular attention will be paid to cross-national variations in punishment and what these reveal about the relevance of particular theories and the importance of culture in understanding historical developments in punishment. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: WDW340H1
Recommended Preparation: SOC313H1 or SOC315H1 or SOC212H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC422H1 - Advanced Studies in Political Sociology
This fourth year course will provide an advanced treatment of selected topics in political Sociology. Specific topics to be covered are the relationship between political systems and cleavage voting, the relationship between social class and attitudes and voting, the post-materialist thesis, social capital and civic participation, gender politics, the various varieties, causes and effects of welfare states, and social movements. The course will have both a Canadian and international focus. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC427H1 - Families and Health
Examines the competing theoretical, policy and therapeutic responses to a variety of family health problems, including addictions, chronic physical illnesses, and mental illness, as well as the effects of illness on family life and family coping. The links between theory and practice provide the basis for discussion of knowledge transfer. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC314H1 or SOC363H1 or SOC364H1 or SOC478H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC448H1 - Sociology & Emotions
From social cohesion to intergroup violence, emotional processes influence social outcomes. Moral aspects of experience in particular are linked to emotions such as shame and pride. Students in this course will review major theories of, and a variety of empirical approaches to, the link between social and emotional processes. They will be encouraged to extend ideas and analyses in the published literature to new topics. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC313H1 or SOC355H1 or SOC362H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC455H1 - Researching from a Social Network Perspective
The course will cover methods for analyzing social network data and familiarize students with software created for working with these data. Each student will complete an empirical research project. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC357H1 or SOC388H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC460H1 - Global Inequalities and Contentious Politics
Hours: 24L
Global Inequality and Contentious Politics: This is a seminar course designed to understand global inequalities and contentious politics. Inequality has been one of the primary subjects in sociological inquiries and its scope naturally expands to a global dimension as our societies are increasingly shaped by international connections. This seminar focuses on understanding various manifestations of global inequalities intersected by international hierarchy, race, gender, and class. Yet, these divisions and injustices are neither static nor unchallenged as people react to these realities via divergent methods. This class will read major theoretical approaches to social movements and examine contentious mobilizations taking place in different geographies around the world to reshape the global order ridden with disparities. Empirical cases of contentious activism include anti-globalization protest, the Occupy movement, campaigns for migrant care workers, resistance against American military bases, and the Me Too movement. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC494H1 (Topics: Global Inequalities and Contentious Politics), offered in Winter 2019, SOC495H1 (Topics: Global Inequalities and Contentious Politics), offered in Winter 2020
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC463H1 - Mental Health and Education
Hours: 24L
In this course, we examine institutions of higher education as unique social contexts within which student mental health unfolds. In doing so, we will address mediating and moderating factors, which characterize the unique and varied socio-emotional experiences of students attending post-secondary. As such, we will distinguish and clarify social approaches to studying mental health – focusing on mentorship, funding, social support, academic demands and healthcare resources – from mental illness as characterized in medical disciplines. Students will be expected to read thoroughly and apply insights from the course to authentic mental health concerns facing institutions of higher education today. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC493H1 (Topics: Mental Health and Education), offered in Fall 2018 and Winter 2020
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC465H1 - Advanced Studies in Gender
This course explores major questions about the nature of gender and gender inequality. The course requires a careful review of key theoretical and empirical work addressing one of these questions and the completion of a research project. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC214H1 or SOC366H1 or SOC367H1 or SOC365H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC478H1 - Social Context of Public Policy
This course explores how policy processes and frameworks need to be evaluated in light of the social context in which they are developed. Factors to be considered include the interplay between public values and expectations and public policy; the implications of cultural diversity and demographic change, and understandings of ethical principles of conduct in public organizations. A related goal is to help students learn how to use empirical research to answer highly contested issues in policy circles and in public life. These objectives are pursued by introducing students to major trends in inequality in Canada, assessing these trends within a comparative context, reflecting on their normative implications, and examining alternative policy responses to these developments. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC303H1 or SOC304H1 or SOC314H1 or SOC363H1 or SOC364H1 or SOC365H1 or SOC371H1 or SOC383H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC479H1 - Advanced Studies in Social Movements
This course focuses on current debates and research findings in the study of social movements. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOCC04H3
Recommended Preparation: SOC371H1 or SOC478H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC481H1 - Culture and Social Networks
Relationships between various forms of culture and the networks connecting both individual people and organizations creating culture. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Recommended Preparation: SOC355H1 or SOC382H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC483H1 - Culture and Cognition
This course examines the social foundations of thinking and action, with a focus on how individuals think and act through shared cognitive schemas that are embedded in larger social structures. The course is organized around a wide-ranging array of classical and contemporary theories that help explain the various factors that shape culture and cognition. There is a research component to put this analytical understanding into practice. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Exclusion: SOC483Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC484H1 - Children of Immigrants
Nearly one-quarter of Canada’s population are immigrant offspring, defined as those who immigrate as children or those who are Canadian born with foreign born parents. This course examines sociological perspectives, language and bilingualism, racial and ethnic identities, family structure and relationships, marriage, education and labour market experiences of immigrant offspring. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists .
Recommended Preparation: SOC303H1 or SOC304H1 or SOC305H1 or SOC314H1 or SOC383H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC485H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-sociology/. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC486H1 - Advanced Topics in Urban Sociology
This course offers real world observation and abundant examples that speak to the strengths and limitations of particular theory, data, and methods for studying urban problems. Students undertake a supervised research project that involves identifying, observing and reflecting on real phenomena in the urban environment. Restricted to 4th-year sociology specialists and majors.
Recommended Preparation: SOC312H1 or SOC364H1 or SOC384H1 or SOC205H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC488H1 - Mental Health over the Life Course
This course is a research-based exploration of mental health at all stages of life, from birth to death. It emphasizes the long-term consequences for mental health of childhood adversities and disadvantage, major life transitions, and turning points in the life course. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC489H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC490Y1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 400-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC491H1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 400-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC492H1 - Independent Research
Independent Research courses allow students to pursue a specific topic of interest. These courses are offered at the 400-level, as full or half courses. Students work independently with a professor in the Department who acts as research supervisor. There are no formal class meetings, lectures, or readings other than what is agreed to with the supervisor. Professors accept supervisory responsibility at their discretion. They are not required to serve as research supervisors. It is recommended that students approach a professor working in the same sub-discipline of sociology. Often students become interested in a topic through a SOC course and approach the instructor of that course for supervision; however, this is not required. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. For further details, please visit our website at: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/independent-research-course/
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC493H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC494H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC495H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC496H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC497H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC498H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SOC499H1 - New Topics in Sociology
An opportunity to explore new topics in sociology. Topics vary from year to year based on the instructor. Restricted to 4th-year sociology majors and specialists. Consult the Departmental website: http://sociology.utoronto.ca/st-george-campus/courses-3/new-topics-in-so...
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)