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.