Total credits required: 30 credits of graduate work in Sociology and/or Community & Environmental Sociology
- These 30 credits must include the four required courses listed below plus at least 9 credits from courses and seminars restricted to graduate students (typically these courses are numbered 700-984), and
- The 30 credits may include no more than 9 credits numbered 985 and above (i.e., brown bags, independent reading courses, and thesis credits).
Required courses for all students:
- Soc 700: Introductory Proseminar for Graduate Students
- Soc 361: Statistics for Sociologists II (also required for the Ph.D.)
- One graduate-level methods course from the following list:
- Soc 735: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
- Soc 750: Research Methods in Sociology (also required for the Ph.D.)
- Soc 751: Survey Methods for Social Research
- Soc 753: Comparative and Historical Methods in Sociology
- Soc 754: Qualitative Research Methods in Sociology
- Soc 756: Advanced Demographic Methods
- Soc 773: Intermediate Classical Theory (also required for the Ph.D.)
Additional requirements for students affiliated with the Center for Demography & Ecology (CDE)
- Soc 674 Elementary Demographic Techniques
- Soc 756: Advanced Demographic Techniques
- Soc 971: Seminar in Population & Society I (offered in Fall)
- Soc 971: Seminar in Population & Society II (offered in Spring)
Each semester, throughout the graduate program, CDE students also enroll in:
- Soc 995: Demography Training Seminar
- Soc 997: Demography Research Seminar