Undergraduate Programs
Sociology Major
     
Regulations effective September 1, 2006

Athabasca University has developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.
     
Requirements within the 120 credits required for the BA.
     
     
1.  
A minimum of 36 credits from major courses including a minimum of 30 senior (300 or 400) level credits (including 12, 400-level credits).  
     
2.  
6 junior Sociology credits.  
     
3.  

6 senior credits in sociological theory.

For example:

 
     
SOCI 335 Classical Sociological Theory
(3)
SOCI 337 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3)
     
4.  

3 senior credits in research methods.

For example

 
     
SOSC 366 Research Methods in the Social Sciences
(3)
     
5.  

3 senior credits in social organization.

 
     
  For example:  
     
SOCI 300 Organizations and Society:
Making Sense of Modern Organizational Life

or
 
SOCI 381 The Sociology of Power and Inequality
(3)
     
     
 

Electives. Select courses from the following.

All courses labelled SOCI

and

     
CMNS 385/
SOCI 378
Media Construction of Social Movements and Issues (3)
ENVS 435 Case Studies in Environmental Protection: Popular Education, Community Sustainability, and Global Connections (3)
GLST 308 Americas: An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean (3)
SOAN 384 The Family in World Perspective (3)
SOSC 366 Research Methods in the Social Sciences (3)

 

   


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