Graduate

The Department of Sociology offers graduate programs leading to both M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees. There are twenty-two full-time faculty, three active professors emeriti and eight adjunct professors. The Department has over four hundred majors at the undergraduate level and provides classes for nearly 3,500 undergraduates each term. There are currently approximately twenty-five Ph.D. students, and twenty-three M.A. students in the program.

Our graduate programs are heavily research-oriented and emphasize exceptional training in the foundations of sociology - classical and contemporary theory, statistical analyses and methodology (including, for example, quantitative and qualitative methods at the M.A. level, and discourse analysis and institutional ethnography at the Ph.D. level). Research and teaching strengths in the Department cluster in four areas: Criminology/Deviance and Social Control; Ethnicity, Immigration and Multiculturalism; Gender, Family and Work, and Sociology of Health. Our program enables graduates to compete successfully for jobs in the academy and beyond in both the private sector and public sector.

The University of Calgary and the Department of Sociology are committed to providing high-quality graduate education for future generations of researchers, educators and creators.

• Over the past ten years, more than two million dollars in outside funds accrued to research projects in the Department, much of which is used to fund graduate students. Our department ranked 5th in Canada for overall SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) dollars brought into a single department in Canada.
• Our graduates are very successful in obtaining positions both inside and outside of academia. During the last decade, the Department has graduated more than eighty M.A. students and twenty Ph.D students. Graduates have found employment in universities and colleges in Canada and beyond, serve as consultants or work directly for government agencies, departments, or the United Nations, or are analysts or administrators in the private sector.
• Our scholarship success rate for graduate students is high. Sociology graduate students have won Sir Isaac Walton Killam scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Canada Graduate Scholarships, Queen Elizabeth II scholarships, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowships and Louise McKinney scholarships. The Department also awards the Donald L.Mills Graduate Scholarship on an annual basis and a Graduate Teaching Award is given for teaching excellence by a graduate student.
• The department hosts the Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal as well as the Metropolis Project.
• We offer competitive funding opportunities for eligible applicants.
• We offer a collegial environment that stresses the integration of graduate students into department affairs and faculty research programs.