GRADUATE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
TO EARN A MASTER'S OF ARTS DEGREE IN APPLIED SOCIOLOGY YOU MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:
- Nine hours requisite core plus one hour Graduate Seminar-Meet the Faculty (SOC 698)
- Twelve hours emphasis area (Applied Research or Sociological Perspectives)
- Nine hours of electives
- Six hours of Internship (SOC 696) or Thesis (SOC 699)
REQUISITE CORE
- SOC 698 Graduate Seminar-Meet the Faculty (one credit)
- SOC 651 Applied Sociological Theory
- SOC 653 Applied Social Research Methods and Design
- SOC 654 (CJ 610) Qualitative Research Methods or SOC 655 Quantitative Analysis
APPLIED RESEARCH EMPHASIS
- SOC 654 (CJ 610) Qualitative Research Methods or SOC 655 Quantitative Analysis (whichever was not taken as part of core)
- SOC 656 Program Evaluation
And two courses (six hours total) from the following:
- SOC 630 Social Policy
- SOC 631 Advanced Planning for Human Services
- SOC 685 Graduate Research
- SS 585 Social Research Laboratory Practicum
- PSY 625 Intermediate Statistics
- STA 570 Statistical Methods I
- STA 571 Statistical Methods II
- STA 572 Multivariate Statistical Methods
- STA 575 Applied Sampling
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES EMPHASIS
Four courses (twelve hours total) from the following:
- SOC 504 Gender Construction
- SOC 510 Sociology of Sport and Leisure
- SOC 515 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 599 Contemporary Developments
- SOC 610 Seminar in Sociology
- SOC 616 Social Psychology
- SOC 619 Sociological Traditions
- SOC 641 Theories of Deviance
- SOC 642 Theories of Social Control
- SOC 660 Social Gerontology
- SOC 661 Demography
- SOC 698 Graduate Seminar
