Spring 2027
More Ways to Explore Sociology
There’s more to explore beyond the courses featured on our main page.
Browse additional Spring 2027 courses in the Medical Sociology and Crime, Law & Deviance B.S. tracks, along with offerings across culture, inequality, cities, research, population change, law, and everyday social life.
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These courses expand beyond the selected offerings featured on our main page. Browse additional courses within our B.S. tracks or explore other areas of sociology.
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The courses below also contribute to the Medical Sociology and Crime, Law & Deviance B.S. tracks but were not included among the selected courses featured on our main page.
Medical Sociology Track
Online
SYP 3060: Sociology of Sex and Reproduction
Examine sexuality and reproduction as social experiences shaped by institutions, culture, relationships, and inequality.
Instructor: Shannon Carter
Medical Sociology Track
Online
SYG 4244: Food and Society
Look beyond the dinner plate to examine the social systems, identities, institutions, and relationships surrounding food.
Instructor: Jonzelle Bell
Medical Sociology Track
Online & In Person
SYP 4014: Sociology of Happiness
What makes people happy, and how much of happiness is really individual? Examine well-being through a sociological lens.
Spring instructors: Brittany Teeples, Elizabeth Mustaine
Medical Sociology Track
Online
SYD 4020: Birth, Death, and Population Trends
Explore the forces behind population change, including fertility, mortality, aging, and the demographic shifts reshaping communities.
Instructor: Yiwen Wang
Medical Sociology Track
Online
SYO 4403: Sociology of Risk
Explore how individuals, institutions, and societies understand, distribute, and respond to risk.
Instructor: Hyung Park
Crime, Law & Deviance Track
Online
SYP 3510: Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Examine how societies define deviance, why those definitions change, and what happens when people cross social boundaries.
Instructor: Allison Catalfamo
Crime, Law & Deviance Track
Online
SYP 3540: Sociology of Law
Examine law as a social institution and explore how legal rules interact with power, organizations, communities, and social change.
Instructor: Eaven Holder
Crime, Law & Deviance Track
Online
SYP 4536: Gangs and Society
Examine gangs as social groups and explore the communities, institutions, and social conditions surrounding their formation and persistence.
Instructor: Allison Catalfamo
Both B.S. Tracks
Online
SYP 3551: Alcohol in Society
Explore drinking as a social phenomenon shaped by culture, health, institutions, relationships, norms, and public responses.
Instructor: Alexandria McClarty
Foundations & Research
Build the ideas and research skills sociologists use to understand patterns, test explanations, and turn questions into evidence.
Online & In Person
SYA 3110: Social Theory
Explore the big ideas sociologists use to explain how societies work, change, and reproduce patterns over time.
Instructor: Michael Armato
Online
SYA 3400C: Applied Social Statistics
Learn to use data to identify patterns, examine relationships, and answer questions about the social world.
Instructor: Yingru Li
Online
SYA 4300C: Research Methods
Learn how sociologists turn questions into research, collect evidence, and evaluate whether conclusions are actually supported by the data.
Instructor: Michael Loree
Online
SYA 4354: Geographic Information Systems Applications
Use mapping and spatial analysis to investigate how social patterns vary across neighborhoods, communities, and places.
Instructor: Yingru Li
In Person, Mixed Mode & Online
SYG 2000: Introduction to Sociology
Start with the fundamentals of sociology and learn to see how institutions, culture, groups, and social forces shape everyday life.
Spring instructors: Jacquelyn Reiss, Angela Vergara, Sylvia Stewart, Diane Prather
Mixed Mode & Online
SYG 2010: Social Problems
Examine major social problems and the larger institutions, inequalities, and social conditions that help produce them.
Spring instructors: Lisa Rodriguez, Doris Stanley
Online
SYG 3938: Careers in Sociology
Connect the skills developed in sociology to careers, graduate education, and life beyond the major.
Instructor: Angela Vergara
People, Culture & Everyday Life
Explore how identities, relationships, culture, and everyday experiences connect to larger social forces.
Online
SYD 3700: Race and Ethnicity
Examine how race and ethnicity are created, experienced, and connected to institutions, identities, and inequality.
Instructor: Marlon McBride
Online
SYD 3800: Sex and Gender in Society
Explore how gender is shaped through culture, institutions, relationships, and everyday social life.
Instructor: Pierce Dignam
Online
SYP 3630: Popular Culture in Society
Use sociology to examine the entertainment, media, trends, and cultural products woven into everyday life.
Instructor: Amanda Koontz
Online
SYP 4000: Sociological Social Psychology
Explore how identities, interactions, groups, and social environments shape how we think, behave, and relate to others.
Instructor: J. Scott Carter
Communities & Social Change
Study how places, environments, institutions, and large-scale changes reshape social life.
Online
SYD 3410: Urban Society
Explore cities as social environments and examine how urban life shapes communities, opportunity, inequality, and everyday experience.
Instructor: Amy Donley
Online
SYD 4510: Environment and Society
Examine the relationship between people, institutions, environmental change, and the social choices that shape our surroundings.
Instructor: Hyung Park
Honors Offering
SYO 3410H: Honors Patterns of Mental Health in Society
An Honors section examining mental health through a sociological lens.
In person | Instructor: Stephanie Nairn
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