Featured Graduate Courses 

Graduate Seminars

Graduate seminars in sociology are built around the in-depth study of particular research questions, methodologies, or sociological subfields. The array of seminars provides students with the opportunity to develop a broad background in sociology. Five carefully-selected seminars are offered every term. The two courses are required for the MA degree: Social Theory, which is offered in alternate Springs, and Research Methods and Design, which is offered every Fall.

Recently Offered Graduate Courses

• Healthy Aging with Dr. Will McConnell
• Political Economy of Culture with Dr. Philip Lewin 
• Microsociology with Dr. Lotus Seeley 
• Self and Identity with Dr. Ann Branaman 
• Sociology of Childhood with Dr. Laura Backstrom 
• Labor and Globalization with Dr. Phillip Hough 
• Disasters with Dr. Patricia Widener
• Research Methods and Design with Dr. Lotus Seeley
• Politics of Risk with Dr. Matty Lichtenstein
• The Affordable Housing Crisis with Dr. Philip Lewin
• Sociology of Emotion with Dr. Lotus Seeley
• Global Migration with Dr. Yangsook Kim
• Sociology of Food with Dr. Phillip Hough
• Aging and Dying with Dr. Will McConnell
• Seminar in Social Movements with Dr. Patricia Widener
• Family Policy with Dr. Matty Lichtenstein
• Sociology of Gender with Dr. Yangsook Kim
• Seminar in Advanced Qualitative Methods with Dr. Philip Lewin