Sociology

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 3.306, phone (512) 232-6300, fax (512) 471-1748; campus mail code: A1700

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Sociology, 305 East 23rd Street A1700, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: gradsoc@austin.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/sociology/

Facilities for Graduate Work

The Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the top graduate programs in the country. Its forty-five faculty members are involved in research and publication on a broad range of topics. Among the department’s specialties are gender; race/ethnicity; demography; family; health; poverty and inequality; political sociology; and work, occupations, and organizations. Graduate students receive instruction in the full range of sociological methodologies, including comparative/historical methods, ethnographic fieldwork, and quantitative data analysis. Professionalization courses include formal instruction on publishing, presenting papers at professional conferences, and teaching. The department has housed a number of prominent journals, including Gender & Society, The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Latin American Research Review. Faculty members serve key roles in a number of national and international professional societies, including the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America.

The Department of Sociology is located in the College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA), which also houses the Population Research Center (PRC), one of the preeminent demographic research and training centers in the United States. Research grant and fellowship opportunities are available through the PRC. The research foci of the PRC include children, youth, and families; population health; religion and demographic processes; and Latin American and border demography. Both the Department of Sociology and the PRC have computer laboratories, data archives, and a weekly lecture series. There are also opportunities for students to receive travel and fellowship funds to support their work.

Faculty and students are also affiliated with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS), which provides graduate students with the opportunity to receive a certification in women’s studies. Many sociology students present their original research at the annual CWGS  graduate student conference. Other centers on campus provide research and teaching opportunities for sociology graduate students, including the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Center for Mexican American Studies, the Center for Asian American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

Areas of Study

Graduate study is offered in theory; education; health; family; race and ethnicity; development; gender; political sociology; crime, law, and deviance; religion; demography; and work, occupations, and organizations.

The following sociology courses meet the area requirements (see the Graduate Courses section for more details).

• Crime, Law, and Deviance: 396N (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Demography: 389K (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13),
• Development and Globalization: 395D (Topics 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
• Education: 395E (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Family (Topic 11), 395E (Topic 3), 395F (Topics 2, 3, 7, 8), (Topic 3)
• Gender: 395F, 395G (Topics 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), 395J (Topic 13), 396P (Topic 12)
• Health: 395F (Topic 3), 395J (Topics 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13), 389K (Topics 1, 2, 3, 12)
• Law and Human Rights, Seminars in: 396Q
• Methods: 387C, 387J, 387L, 388K, 388L, 388M, 391L
• Political Sociology: 394K (Topic 14), 395D (Topic 3), 396P (Topics 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12)
• Race and Ethnicity: 389K (Topics 4, 9), 395E (Topic 2), 395L (Topics 1, 8, 9, 10)
• Religion: 396R (Topics 1, 2, 3)
• Statistics: 384J, 384L, 384M, 385K, 385L, 386L, 391L, and 395G (Topic 11)
• Theory: 394K (Topics 2, 3, 12, 13, 14), 395G (Topic 7), 395L (Topics 9, 10)
• Work, Occupations, and Organizations: 395D (Topic 5), 395E (Topic 1), 369L (Topics 10, 15, 16, 17)

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Ari Adut Jacqueline L Angel Ronald J Angel Javier Auyero Simone A Browne Johnny S Butler Ben Carrington Shannon E Cavanagh Mounira M Charrad Robert Crosnoe Sheldon Ekland-Olson Toni L Falbo Jennifer Glass Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez Mark D Hayward John C Higley Robert A Hummer William R Kelly David S Kirk Susan E Marshall Leticia J Marteleto John Mirowsky Chandra L Muller

Marc A Musick Pamela Marie Paxton Joseph E Potter Daniel A Powers Kelly Raley Mark Regnerus Pedro Reyes Catherine Riegle-Crumb Bryan R Roberts Keith Robinson Nestor P Rodriguez Mary Rose Catherine E Ross Sharmila Rudrappa Debra J Umberson Andres Villarreal Peter Ward Eric M Warr Samuel C Watkins Alexander A Weinreb Christine L Williams Michael P Young Wei-Hsin Yu