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Sociology Undergraduate Courses

Selected Course Outlines

(Subject to Change)

In some cases, Course Outlines are available to give students an idea as to what a course entails. Below are the most recent course outlines available.

Sociology Course Descriptions - Undergraduate Calendar

100's

Sociology 101 - 01          Introduction to Sociology (McClinchey)

Sociology 101 - 04          Introduction to Sociology (Cumming)

Sociology 101 - Online     Introduction to Sociology (McClinchey)
Sociology 102                  Social Problems

200's

Sociology 200                  Introduction to Sociology of Marriage and Family

Sociology 201                  Victims and Society
Sociology 202                  Introduction to Classical Theory

Sociology 204                  Sociology of Adolescence
Sociology 206                  Gender Relations
Sociology 207                  Sociology of Education

Sociology 209                  Ancestry, History and Personal Identity
Sociology 210                  Sociology of Sport
Sociology 222                  Juvenile Delinquency

Sociology 222 - Online     Juvenile Delinquency
Sociology 223                  Deviance: Perspectives and Processes

Sociology 224                  Poverty in Canada & its Social Consequences

Sociology 226                  Juvenile Justice

Sociology 227                  Criminology

Sociology 228                  Sociology of Corrections

Sociology 229                  Selected Topics in Criminology

Sociology 229                  Online Selected Topics in Criminology

Sociology 232                  Technology and Social Change

Sociology 232 - Online     Technology and Social Change

Sociology 234                   Social Psychology and Everyday Life

Sociology 238                   Marketplace Activities: An Interactionist Analysis

Sociology 241                   Introduction to Sociology of Work
Sociology 243                   Occupational Sociology
Sociology 246                   Mass Communication

Sociology 248                   Health, Illness and Society

Sociology 249                   Sociology of Mental Disorder
Sociology 250                   Contemporary Japanese Society

Sociology 253                   Demographic Change in Canada

Sociology 256                   Ethnic & Racial Relations

Sociology 258/RS 281       Millennialism and Violence

Sociology 260/RS 262       Religion in Sociological Perspective
Sociology 262/RS 280       Cults & New Religious Movements

Sociology 275                   Mennonites as a Sociological Community
Sociology 280                   Social Statistics

300's

Sociology 302                  Introduction to Contemporary Theory

Sociology 312                  Sociology of Science
Sociology 315                  Class, Status and Power
Sociology 321                  Introduction to Research Methods
Sociology 322                  Introduction to Field Research Methods

Sociology 325                  Sexuality and the Law

Sociology 327                  Policing in a Democratic Society

Sociology 336                  Sociology of Professions

Sociology 339                  Waterloo Region as Knowledge Society

Sociology 340                  Complex Organizations
Sociology 342                  Mobility and Regulation
Sociology 345                  Cyberspace and Social Life
Sociology 347                  Sociology of Leisure
Sociology 349                  Sociology of Development
Sociology 354                  Comparative Health Care Systems

Sociology 355J                 Power and Parenting
Sociology 362                  Canadian Society: Special Topics

Sociology 368                  Custodial and Rehabilitative Institutions

Sociology 369J                 The Sociology of Community
Sociology 370                  Sociology of Law

Sociology 370 - Online     Sociology of Law
Sociology 372                  Good and Evil in Social Relations

400's

Sociology 401                  Theoretical Perspectives on Gender
Sociology 404                  Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology 405                  Seminar in Classical Sociological Theory

Sociology 406                  Contemporary Sociological Theory

Sociology 407/707           Canadian Social Thought

Sociology 408                  Contemporary Debates in Social Theory

Sociology 409                  Knowing & Acting:Social Theory from Early Greeks to the Present
Sociology 410/714           Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research

Sociology 416                  Educational Theory and Practice

Sociology 417                  Liberal Arts Education and Knowledge Society

Sociology 420                  Seminar in Social Inequality
Sociology 421                  Quantitative Methods

Sociology 424/725           Seminar in Sociology of Health

Sociology 428                  Sentencing as a Social Process
Sociology 451                  Global Development
Sociology 452                  Humanitarianism
Sociology 459                  Seminar in the Sociology of Work and Occupations