Course of Study Sixty approved graduate credits are required for the degree, not including the doctoral dissertation, which carries no course credit. Students are encouraged to supplement their course of study with work in allied disciplines, subject to the approval of the Executive Officer.

Candidates for the Ph.D. in sociology must complete the following lower-level courses:

Development of Sociological Theory, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Sociological Statistics I and II, and one course in methods, selected from SOC 81000 to 81900. Students entering the program with prior advanced training in statistical methods may, with permission of the Executive Officer of the program, substitute other more advanced quantitative methods courses instead of Stats I and/or Stats II. The remaining courses in the student’s program should represent a broad distribution in the student’s areas of interest. First-year students are expected to take a program of 9 to 12 credits each semester. A heavier program is permitted subject to the approval of the Executive Officer.

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