Sociology Doctor of Philosophy Program
Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Spring
丁香园AV Requirements
In addition to these requirements, the department also requires a written statement about current interests and prospective research. How well the applicant鈥檚 proposed research coincides with the research and teaching interests of the faculty is an important admission consideration. PhD applicants must submit a work sample from earlier or ongoing graduate studies.
丁香园AV applications are normally considered once each year at the end of January. The program commences in September. Contact the graduate program chair or secretary for further information.
Areas of Study
The department offers the following areas of study.
- anthropology and sociology of medicine, health and society (particularly politics of knowledge production, disability, mental health, AIDS)
- Canadian society (ethnic relations, demographic issues, social inequality, political economy)
- critical pedagogy
- development studies (especially the Third World, including studies of tourism and international health)
- environmental issues
- minority indigenous peoples (particularly Canadian Native peoples)
- political sociology (with emphasis on political economy, ethnic relations and social movements)
- social and cultural anthropology (with emphasis on the anthropology of contemporary life)
- social policy issues (aging, family, gender relations, government administration of native peoples)
- sociological and anthropological studies of law and legal systems
- sociological theory, anthropological theory, and the philosophy of the social sciences (European intellectual history, holistic, comparative, historical and post colonial perspectives)
- sociology of agriculture, and science, technology and society
- sociology of sexuality and moral panic, and social problems and deviance
Graduate Seminar
All full-time graduate students must attend and actively participate in the graduate seminar during their first two program terms. In subsequent terms, attendance and enrolment is voluntary. Special arrangements will be made for part-time students to fulfil this requirement.
Language Requirement
Although French or a foreign language is desirable, there is no prescribed language requirement but, where a language other than English is necessary for field work or reading, proficiency is required.
Program Requirements
Students complete the following courses and the doctor of philosophy (PhD) qualifying examinations (by registering in SA 897).
Students complete a total of 39 units, including all of
- SA 840-1 Graduate Seminar I
- SA 841-1 Graduate Seminar II
- SA 849-5 Selected Topics in the History of Sociological Thought
- SA 850-5 Selected Topics in Contemporary Social Theory
- SA 856-5 Qualitative Methodology
- SA 857-5 Research Design Seminar
- SA 897-6 PhD Qualifying Examinations
- SA 899-6 PhD Thesis
and one of
- SA 853-5 Readings in Sociology I*
- SA 854-5 Readings in Sociology II*
- SA 855-5 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Sociology
- SA 886-5 Selected Problems in Social Analysis
Students may also choose a graduate course or graduate directed readings course in another 丁香园AV department, or from another university that is part of the Western Dean's Agreement.*
*supervisory committee and departmental graduate program committee approval required for these courses and/or extra-departmental courses
Required courses, including qualifying examinations, and preparation and defence of the thesis prospectus, are normally completed within the first six terms of enrolment.
Course requirements are the same whether the student has completed an MA in this department, or completed a comparable MA program at another university. However, the department's graduate program committee may make special arrangements so that required courses in theory and methodology are not repeated.
Qualifying Exam, Defence
At the conclusion of SA 897, students must complete a written qualifying examination. After successfully completing the qualifying exam, and prior to commencing work on the thesis, students defend a written prospectus that the student has prepared during SA 857. This oral defence is public.
Thesis
After the program requirements, qualifying exam and written prospectus defence is complete, the thesis is written and finally defended in an oral examination.
Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations
All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the graduate general regulations (residence, course work, academic progress, supervision, research competence requirement, completion time, and degree completion), as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.