Social Dimensions of Health
Required Courses
Courses are typically offered once per year in the fall OR spring semester.
TWO required classes:
- SOCY 651 Sociology of Health and Illness Behavior (3.00)
- SOCY 658 Sociology of Mental Health & Illness (3.00)
ONE three-credit graduate course in social research methods (choose one):
- SOCY 600: Research Methodology (3.00)
Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in statistics in any department in any college. - SOCY 619: Qualitative Methods in Social Research (3.00)
Additional Course Requirements
ONE three-credit graduate course in social inequality (choose one):
- SOCY 606: Social Inequality and Social Policy (3.00) (summer offering too).
- SOCY 611: Constructing Race, Class, and Gender (3.00)
Applied Social Research Methods
Required Courses
A total of four courses are required to complete the certificate program.
A grade of a “B” or higher must be earned in all required courses for the certificate.
- SOCY 600: Research Methodology (3.00)
This course is designed to advance graduate students’ knowledge of the modes of inquiry in the social sciences and to familiarize them with research methods and techniques.
Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in statistics in any department in any college.
This course is offered in the fall semester. - SOCY 604: Statistical Analysis (3.00)
An introduction to the concepts and methods of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Bi-variate and multi-variate statistical techniques will be examined.
Prerequisite: SOCY 600
This course is offered in the spring semester.
Additional Course Requirements
Two three-credit graduate course in social research methods or statistics (choose two):
- SOCY 608: Advanced Statistics (3.00)
- SOCY 618: SAS for Social Scientists (3.00)
- SOCY 619: Qualitative Methods in Social Research (3.00)
- SOCY 680: Applied Sociology (3.00)