{"id":10100,"date":"2026-08-19T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sociology\/?page_id=10100"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:13:35","slug":"spring-2027-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sociology\/spring-2027-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2027 Sociology Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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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.<\/p>\n


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Medical Sociology Track<\/p>\n

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SYP 3060: Sociology of Sex and Reproduction<\/h3>\n

Examine sexuality and reproduction as social experiences shaped by institutions, culture, relationships, and inequality.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Shannon Carter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Medical Sociology Track<\/p>\n

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SYG 4244: Food and Society<\/h3>\n

Look beyond the dinner plate to examine the social systems, identities, institutions, and relationships surrounding food.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Jonzelle Bell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Medical Sociology Track<\/p>\n

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SYP 4014: Sociology of Happiness<\/h3>\n

What makes people happy, and how much of happiness is really individual? Examine well-being through a sociological lens.<\/p>\n

Spring instructors:<\/strong> Brittany Teeples, Elizabeth Mustaine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Medical Sociology Track<\/p>\n

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SYD 4020: Birth, Death, and Population Trends<\/h3>\n

Explore the forces behind population change, including fertility, mortality, aging, and the demographic shifts reshaping communities.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Yiwen Wang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Medical Sociology Track<\/p>\n

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SYO 4403: Sociology of Risk<\/h3>\n

Explore how individuals, institutions, and societies understand, distribute, and respond to risk.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Hyung Park<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Crime, Law & Deviance Track<\/p>\n

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SYP 3510: Sociology of Deviant Behavior<\/h3>\n

Examine how societies define deviance, why those definitions change, and what happens when people cross social boundaries.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Allison Catalfamo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Crime, Law & Deviance Track<\/p>\n

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SYP 3540: Sociology of Law<\/h3>\n

Examine law as a social institution and explore how legal rules interact with power, organizations, communities, and social change.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Eaven Holder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Crime, Law & Deviance Track<\/p>\n

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SYP 4536: Gangs and Society<\/h3>\n

Examine gangs as social groups and explore the communities, institutions, and social conditions surrounding their formation and persistence.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Allison Catalfamo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Both B.S. Tracks<\/p>\n

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SYP 3551: Alcohol in Society<\/h3>\n

Explore drinking as a social phenomenon shaped by culture, health, institutions, relationships, norms, and public responses.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Alexandria McClarty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

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Foundations & Research<\/h2>\n

Build the ideas and research skills sociologists use to understand patterns, test explanations, and turn questions into evidence.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Online & In Person<\/p>\n

SYA 3110: Social Theory<\/h3>\n

Explore the big ideas sociologists use to explain how societies work, change, and reproduce patterns over time.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Michael Armato<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYA 3400C: Applied Social Statistics<\/h3>\n

Learn to use data to identify patterns, examine relationships, and answer questions about the social world.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Yingru Li<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYA 4300C: Research Methods<\/h3>\n

Learn how sociologists turn questions into research, collect evidence, and evaluate whether conclusions are actually supported by the data.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Michael Loree<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYA 4354: Geographic Information Systems Applications<\/h3>\n

Use mapping and spatial analysis to investigate how social patterns vary across neighborhoods, communities, and places.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Yingru Li<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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In Person, Mixed Mode & Online<\/p>\n

SYG 2000: Introduction to Sociology<\/h3>\n

Start with the fundamentals of sociology and learn to see how institutions, culture, groups, and social forces shape everyday life.<\/p>\n

Spring instructors:<\/strong> Jacquelyn Reiss, Angela Vergara, Sylvia Stewart, Diane Prather<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Mixed Mode & Online<\/p>\n

SYG 2010: Social Problems<\/h3>\n

Examine major social problems and the larger institutions, inequalities, and social conditions that help produce them.<\/p>\n

Spring instructors:<\/strong> Lisa Rodriguez, Doris Stanley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYG 3938: Careers in Sociology<\/h3>\n

Connect the skills developed in sociology to careers, graduate education, and life beyond the major.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Angela Vergara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

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People, Culture & Everyday Life<\/h2>\n

Explore how identities, relationships, culture, and everyday experiences connect to larger social forces.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYD 3700: Race and Ethnicity<\/h3>\n

Examine how race and ethnicity are created, experienced, and connected to institutions, identities, and inequality.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Marlon McBride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYD 3800: Sex and Gender in Society<\/h3>\n

Explore how gender is shaped through culture, institutions, relationships, and everyday social life.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Pierce Dignam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYP 3630: Popular Culture in Society<\/h3>\n

Use sociology to examine the entertainment, media, trends, and cultural products woven into everyday life.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Amanda Koontz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYP 4000: Sociological Social Psychology<\/h3>\n

Explore how identities, interactions, groups, and social environments shape how we think, behave, and relate to others.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> J. Scott Carter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

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Communities & Social Change<\/h2>\n

Study how places, environments, institutions, and large-scale changes reshape social life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYD 3410: Urban Society<\/h3>\n

Explore cities as social environments and examine how urban life shapes communities, opportunity, inequality, and everyday experience.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Amy Donley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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SYD 4510: Environment and Society<\/h3>\n

Examine the relationship between people, institutions, environmental change, and the social choices that shape our surroundings.<\/p>\n

Instructor:<\/strong> Hyung Park<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

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SYO 3410H: Honors Patterns of Mental Health in Society<\/h2>\n

An Honors section examining mental health through a sociological lens.<\/p>\n

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