Courses for ‘Ways of Knowing’ requirement

Arts students who enrolled in Sept 2024 or later must take a set of breadth credits from multiple Ways of Knowing categories.

Sociology courses are categorized as Social and Behavioural Systems. Below is a list of courses you may wish to consider to fulfill your requirement.


Introductory courses

SOCI 101: Social Interaction and Culture

Culture, identity, social interaction, relationships and socialization.

SOCI 102: Inequality and Social Change

Inequality, institutions, social structure and social change.

2nd year courses

These courses have no prerequisites.

SOCI 200: Sociology of Family

An introduction to contemporary family forms and relations

SOCI 201: Ethnicity

An introduction to the study of the relations between ethnic groups and of the interplay between ethnicity and other social factors.

FMST 210: Family Context of Human Development

The influence of family dynamics and social conditions on human development.

SOCI 224: Sociology of Personal Life

A sociological examination of everyday life exploring the social in the personal.

SOCI 230: Shopping, Society, and Sustainability

Major theories of consumer society, evaluating impacts of shopping on human and non-human environments and popular solutions to these impacts.

SOCI 240: Introduction to Social Interaction

Research on social interaction, with an emphasis on group (as opposed to individual) processes and behaviour.

SOCI 250: Crime and Society

Crime as a social phenomenon, with emphasis on the changing definitions of crime in relation to social and political change in Canadian and other societies.

SOCI 270: Sociology of Creativity

The application of sociological concepts to the examination of creative processes.

SOCI 290: Global Pandemics

Global pandemics in relation to social inequality, social interaction and social institutions

3rd year courses

Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102

SOCI 302: Ethnic and Racial Inequality

A critical examination of classical and contemporary theories and research evidence concerning ethnic and racial inequality at the societal and interpersonal levels.

SOCI 312: Gender Relations

The nature of gender relations, their social and cultural expression, and theories of gender inequality.

SOCI 342: Consumers and Consumption

The structure and culture of consuming and consumption.

SOCI 361: Social Inequality

Tendencies toward equality and inequality; manifestations of inequality (occupation, education, gender, ethnicity, income, power) and their consequences; caste and class features of major stratification systems; theories of social class; stratification profile of contemporary industrial societies.

SOCI 387: Drugs and Society

Social dimensions of the causes, consequences, regulation, and treatment of substance use from Canadian and international perspectives.

Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102, SOCI 200

SOCI 320: Diversity in Family Forms

An examination of diversity within and between families and of diverse family forms.

SOCI 369: Sociology of Sexualities

Historical and social construction of sexual identities, desires, communities, and politics in the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: One of SOCI 200, FMST 210

FMST 312: Parent-child Relationships

Parent-child interaction over the life span.

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