Undergraduate Program Pathways
PATHWAYS
Use these pathways to assist with navigating our course offerings and to help identify potential areas of interest within the Sociology program. These pathways are intended as a guide only. Students are encouraged to choose courses from a diversity of pathways. Visit Bear Tracks to view the current course schedule.
Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies
This pathway focuses on the causes, nature, consequences, and control of crime as well as the origins and evolution of law, and the administration of criminal justice.
SOC 203: Social Problems
SOC 224: Sociology of Deviance and Conformity
SOC 225: Criminology
SOC 226: Surveillance Studies
SOC 321: Youth, Crime and Society
SOC 323: Sociology of Policing
SOC 325: Topics in Criminology
SOC 327: Criminal Justice Administration in Canada
SOC 343: Social Movements
SOC 420: Topics in Criminal Justice
SOC 421: Sociology of Punishment
SOC 423: Crime and Public Policy
SOC 424: Gangs and Violence
SOC 425: Sociology of Terrorism
SOC 427: Immigration, Ethnicity and Crime
SOC 429: Sociology of Law
SOC 430: Women and Crime
SOC 496: Human Rights in International Perspective
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 325: Environmental Crime, Inequality and Harm
SOC 325: Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice
SOC 325: Masculinities, Violence and Victimization
SOC 325: Prisons and Punishment in Canada
SOC 325: Race, Racism and Crime
SOC 402: Criminal Accusation
SOC 420: Sociology of Killing
SOC 420: Sociology of Prisons
SOC 420: Victimology
Gender and Sexuality
This pathway focuses on the construction of gender roles, the intersectional links between gender, sexuality, and inequality, and the gendered nature of family life.
SOC 271: Introduction to the Family
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender
SOC 430: Women and Crime
SOC 492: Queering the Social
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 325: Masculinities, Violence and Victimization
SOC 402 : Changing Relations of Care
SOC 402: Race, Gender and Culture
SOC 402: Indigenous Feminisms
SOC 402: Decolonial Feminist Thought
Health and Illness
This pathway focuses on health and illness across the life course, including the social determinants of health and illness, the lived experience of health and illness and of dying and death, and social policies and programs that influence health and illness and constitute the health care system.
SOC 375: Sociology of Aging
SOC 382: Sociology of Heath and Illness
SOC 452: Mortality and Population Health
SOC 473: Sociology of Death and Dying
SOC 486: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 402: Changing Relations of Care
SOC 402: Sport, the Body, and Society
Inequality, Stratification, and Policy
This pathway focuses on the social structural roots of inequality, its patterns and consequences for individuals and for societies as well as the implications of, and for, social policy.
SOC 203: Social Problems
SOC 260: Inequality and Social Stratification
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender
SOC 363: Sociology of Work and Industry
SOC 370: Racism and Decolonization
SOC 371: Anti-Racism and Racial Injustice
SOC 423: Crime and Public Policy
SOC 445: Cities and Suburbia
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 325: Environmental Crime, Inequality & Harm
SOC 402 : Gender, Race and Culture
SOC 402 : Indigenous-Settler Relations
SOC 402 : Migration and Public Policy
SOC 402: Indigenous Feminisms
SOC 402: Speed, Mobility, and Work
Knowledge, Religion, and Collective Belief Systems
This pathway focuses on the social structural and social psychological dimensions of various knowledge and belief systems.
SOC 224: Sociology of Deviance and Conformity
SOC 241: Social Psychology
SOC 376: Sociology of Religion
SOC 441: Sociology of Religious Sects
SOC 476: Religion and Societies
Population, Family, and Life Course
This pathway focuses on fertility (birth), mortality (death), and events and processes that occur over the life course, such as education, labour force participation, partner and family relationships, and residential location.
SOC 251: Population and Society
SOC 271: Introduction to the Family
SOC 301: Sociology of Gender
SOC 342: Socialization
SOC 375: Sociology of Aging
SOC 376: Sociology of Religion
SOC 377: Sociology of Youth
SOC 451: Sociology of Human Fertility
SOC 452: Mortality and Population Health
SOC 459: The Social Demography of Partnerships and Families
SOC 473: Sociology of Death and Dying
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 302: Population Transitions
SOC 402: Sociology of Childhood
SOC 402: Changing Relations of Care
SOC 402: Demographic Methods
SOC 402: Migration and Public Policy
Power, Globalization, and Social Change
This pathway focuses on how power intersects with the social, political, and economic realities of globalization, including social and environmental injustices.
SOC 260: Inequality and Social Stratification
SOC 269: Introductory Sociology of Globalization
SOC 291: Introduction to Environmental Sociology
SOC 343: Social Movements
SOC 363: Sociology of Work and Industry
SOC 369: Sociology of Globalization
SOC 425: Sociology of Terrorism
SOC 427: Immigration, Ethnicity and Crime
SOC 444: Critical Media Studies
SOC 445: Cities and Suburbia
SOC 496: Human Rights in International Perspective
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 325: Environmental Crime, Inequality & Harm
SOC 402: Commons and Climate Justice
SOC 402: Speed, Mobility, and Work
Race, Decolonization, and Social Justice
This pathway focuses on historical and contemporary forms of racialization and colonization with the goal of identifying and analyzing anti-racist and decolonialist strategies and practices.
SOC 260: Inequality and Social Stratification
SOC 269: Introductory Sociology of Globalization
SOC 369: Sociology of Globalization
SOC 370: Racism and Decolonization
SOC 371: Anti-Racism and Racial Injustice
SOC 427: Immigration, Ethnicity and Crime
SOC 445: Cities and Suburbia
Resent "Topics" Courses
SOC 325: Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice
SOC 325: Race, Racism and Crime
SOC 402: Commons and Climate Justice
SOC 402: Indigenous Research Methods
SOC 402: Indigenous-Settler Relations
SOC 402: Race, Gender and Culture
SOC 402: Indigenous Feminisms
Research Methods
This pathway focuses on the methods used in social science research, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches such as field research, survey research, historical methods, and content analysis.
SOC 210: Introduction to Social Statistics
SOC 315: Introduction to Social Methodology
SOC 415: Applied Research Internship
SOC 418: Qualitative Methods in Social Research
SOC 456: Data Analysis and Research
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 402: Demographic Methods
SOC 402: Indigenous Research Methods
Social Psychology
This pathway focuses on the relationship between individuals and the larger social context, including how individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are shaped by their interactions with others.
SOC 224: Sociology of Deviance and Conformity
SOC 241: Social Psychology
SOC 242: Biologically Coordinated Social Psychology
SOC 342: Socialization
SOC 445: Cities and Suburbia
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 402: Sociology of Language
Theory and Culture
This pathway focuses on both classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives and their applications as well as the material and symbolic elements of culture, including their production, distribution, and consumption.
SOC 212: Classical Social Theory
SOC 335: Themes in Contemporary Social Theory
SOC 345: Cultural Studies
SOC 370: Racism and Decolonization
SOC 435: Theorizing ‘the Social’: Critical Debates in Social Theory
SOC 444: Critical Media Studies
SOC 445: Cities and Suburbia
SOC 461: Sociology of Art
SOC 492: Queering the Social
Recent “Topics” Courses
SOC 302: Media and Society
SOC 402: Commons and Climate Justice
SOC 402: Race, Gender and Culture
SOC 402: Indigenous Feminisms
SOC 402: Decolonial Feminist Thought
SOC 402: Sociology of Language
Work and Organizations
This pathway focuses on the structure and organization of the workplace and other formal organizations, including their intersections with economic and political systems.
SOC 260: Inequality and Social Stratification
SOC 269: Introductory Sociology of Globalization
SOC 321: Youth, Crime and Society
SOC 323: Sociology of Policing
SOC 327: Criminal Justice Administration in Canada
SOC 343: Social Movements
SOC 363: Sociology of Work and Industry
SOC 369: Sociology of Globalization
SOC 376: Sociology of Religon
SOC 382: Sociology of Health and Illness
SOC 423: Crime and Public Policy
SOC 429: Sociology of Law
SOC 459: The Social Demography of Partnerships and Families
SOC 476: Religion and Societies
SOC 486: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
SOC 496: Human Rights in International Perspective
Recent “Topics” Courses:
SOC 325: Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice
SOC 325: Prisons and Punishment in Canada
SOC 402: Changing Relations of Care
SOC 402: Criminal Accusation
SOC 420: Sociology of Prisons