Sociology Joint Honours Component (B.A.)

36 credits · Faculty of Arts · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (18 credits)

Note: Students who are exempted from SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research. must replace it with another 300-level or higher sociology course.

  • SOCI 210 Sociological Perspectives (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • SOCI 211 Sociological Inquiry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • SOCI 330 Sociological Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 461 Quantitative Data Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 480 Honours Project (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Complementary Courses (18 credits)

18 credits of complementary sociology (SOCI) courses approved by the Departmental Honours Adviser. 500-Level Seminars: Seminars at the 500 level are open to Honours/Joint Honours students in their final year.

Areas of Sociology

The Department of Sociology offers courses in four substantive areas of study: Institutions, Deviance, and Culture Politics and Social Change Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender Work, Organizations, and the Economy The following lists indicate the courses which are included within each substantive area. Students should use these lists when selecting their complementary courses. The 500-level seminars in each substantive area are open to social science major concentration students in their final year and to Honours/Joint Honours students. Minor concentration students may only register for these with the permission of the instructor.

Institutions, Deviance, and Culture

  • SOCI 213 Deviance (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 247 Family and Modern Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 250 Social Problems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 305 Socialization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 310 Sociology of Mental Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 318 Sociology of the Media (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 322 Sociology of Literature (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 325 Sociology of Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 388 Crime (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 488 Punishment and Prisons (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 489 Gender, Deviance and Social Control (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 495 Social Problems and Conflicts (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 503 Surveillance in Modern Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 535 Sociology of the Family (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 538 Selected Topics in Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 571 Deviance and Social Control (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 595 Migration Governance and Stratification (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Politics and Social Change

  • SOCI 212 International Migration (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 222 Urban Sociology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 245 The Sociology of Emotions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 255 Gender and the State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 326 Political Sociology 01 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • SOCI 345 Topics in Sociology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 354 Dynamics of Industrial Societies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 386 Contemporary Social Movements (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 400 Comparative Migration and Citizenship (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 424 Networks and Social Structures (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 455 Post-Socialist Societies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 484 Emerging Democratic States (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 495 Social Problems and Conflicts (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 507 Social Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 545 Sociology of Population (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 550 Developing Societies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 595 Migration Governance and Stratification (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender

  • SOCI 227 Jews in North America (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 230 Sociology of Ethnic Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 255 Gender and the State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • SOCI 300 Sociology of Sexualities (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 321 Gender and Work (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 333 Social Stratification (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 335 Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 355 Rural Life in a Global Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 366 Neighborhoods and Inequality (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 375 Suspect Minorities in Canada (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 415 Education and Inequality (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 475 Canadian Ethnic Studies Seminar (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 505 Sociology of Digital Intimacy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 526 Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 530 Sex and Gender (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 595 Migration Governance and Stratification (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Work, Organizations, and the Economy

  • SOCI 235 Technology and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 301 Artificial Intelligence and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 304 Sociology of the Welfare State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 312 Sociology of Work and Industry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 325 Sociology of Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 420 Organizations (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 470 Topics in Economic Sociology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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