Sociology

Master of Arts students will gain a world-class education that lays the foundation for further study at a doctoral level, or for professional employment. Recent research topics include refugee resettlement, service provision in safe consumption sites and homeless shelters, indigenous women's experience of incarceration programs, theories of environmental risk, improving hospital experience of aboriginal patients, the presentation of self online, wellbeing in professional work, and inclusion practices of Black and Caribbean youth. The 20-month program provides foundational training in sociological theory, methods and statistics, as well as substantive courses of interest. Students benefit from a professor/student ratio that guarantees access to support and feedback.

Completing this program

• Core Courses: Students take courses in social statistics, research methods, and theory.

• Master's Seminar: Students complete training seminar in professional sociology and preparation of a thesis prospectus.

• Additional Courses: Topics may include health and illness, ethnicity and racialization, gender, urban sociology, indigenous issues, deviance and social control, and more.

• Thesis: Students will be required to submit and defend an original research thesis.

Outcomes

Health sector, education, government, non-profit, researcher, analyst, program evaluation, clinician.

A master’s degree in sociology will give you the pre-requisite for a PhD.