Sociology (SOCIOL)
Sociology Courses
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Sociology as a special field of social science. The relationship of the work of the sociologist to contemporary society; an examination of the sociological perspective.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Sociology as a special field of social science. The relationship of the work of the sociologist to contemporary society; an examination of the sociological perspective.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines problems relating to social inequality, troubled institutions, social control and social change. Explains how sociological theories can address these problems and improve communities.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Demographic and development trends related to political, economic, and eco-systems. Policy options and strategies regarding population growth, economic development, and selected institutional issues.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
An introduction to sociological social psychology, emphasizing such topics as the nature of self, identity, socialization, various aspects of social interaction, and dynamics of group behavior.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
For further information, consult department chair.
Prerequisites: 2.0 GPA; consent of instructor, department chair, and Assistant Dean for Student Academic Services.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 credits max.
Last Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2004.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
An examination of how individuals, groups, and organizations experience and influence work; an overview of the past, present, and future of work; the role of work in shaping larger social (in)equality.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. in historical and contemporary contexts. Addresses racial inequality and American institutions (such as education, employment, healthcare, criminal justice, housing, and the environment).
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
A survey of intersecting inequalities, examining race, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability, and other identities. Introduction to competing stratification theories.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Global nature of contemporary economic and social change; local dimensions of globalization, economic integration, dislocation, transnationalization, popular resistance, and blacklash.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2014, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Analysis of competing perspectives on crime, with reference to the behavior of those who define, engage in, or become the victim of criminal behavior.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Study of personal and social determinants of juvenile delinquency and agencies for its control, treatment, and prevention.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Social structure of the contemporary schooling system in the United States. Topics include social class membership and education outcomes; school desegregation; high school attrition.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The study of gendered behavior and gender inequality; the social construction of gender; the impact of changing work and family roles on gendered experiences; sociological understandings of sex and gender diversity.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The social construction of sexuality, the social history of sexual arrangements, and contemporary sexual theory and practice.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The social forces that shape inequality within, and the formation and maintenance of, marriage and other intimate relationships across diverse groups.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to basic statistical concepts and procedures and their selected application to sociological data. Covers both descriptive and inferential statistics.
Prerequisites: completion of GER Quantitative Literacy Part A (QL-A) requirement, or Math Placement Level 30, or a grade of C or higher in any 100-level Math course (excluding MATH 194 or MATH 199) or MATH 111/PHILOS 111.
General Education Requirements: Math & Quantitative Reasoning
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to social gerontology; examination of the social dynamics and institutional contexts of aging in modern society.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of basic principles of Sociology in a business, organizational, educational, political or other appropriate setting.
Prerequisites: sophomore standing or higher, or completion of a prior SOCIOL course; 2.25 GPA and consent of supervising faculty member.
Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2020, Spring 2003.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: acceptance for Study Abroad Program and department consent.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Special topic in sociology.
Prerequisites: none; additional prerequisites may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 1995, Spring 1990, Fall 1989, Spring 1989.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1 cr. Undergraduate.
Examination of the social forces that shape contemporary employment and job seeking experiences; learning to identify and describe the knowledge and skills they are acquiring as social science majors/minors.
Prerequisites: sophomore standing and declared or intended major or minor in anthropology, communication, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies; or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Previously SOCIOL 202.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examination of structural and cultural factors as related to the nature of political systems; consideration of the organization and roles of political and para-political groups.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Summer 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Sociological analysis of the experiences of Latinos. Examination of immigration and mode of incorporation from theoretical perspectives. Emphasis on Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Course Rules: LATINX 323 and SOCIOL 323 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Analysis of racial and ethnic relations in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Origin, persistence, adaptation, and change in patterns of racial and ethnic relations in various world societies.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Study of change in society; integration and various theories of social change; examination of contemporary instances of social change.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines the social implications of new and emerging technology, the diffusion of data and technology into practice, and the ways that data, technology, and society interact to reshape social relations and institutions.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2018, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Comprehensive overview of social scientific approaches to understanding science in society. Topics covered include science studies, science communication, public understanding of science, and science as culture.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of SOCIOL 495 with similar topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The sociological perspective applied to economic phenomena, including production, distribution, consumption, exchanges of goods, a country's economic development, and global market.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Cultural, social, and social-psychological factors in disease processes; distribution of disease; social definitions of illness; organization of health professions and health facilities.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Defining structure and functions of the group. Developing understanding of group processes. Recognizing and defining leadership, cliques and factions.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2008.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Analysis of the ways in which deviant behavior is socially constructed, individuals are labeled and stigmatized as deviants, and mechanisms of social control are activated or challenged.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examination of law as a social institution, the functions of law, evolution of legal systems, law and other social institutions, the legal profession.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Dynamic aspects of social and institutional change. The breakdown and transformation of the social system through cultural drift, collectivities, and social movements. Recruitment, ideology, and leadership.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Social forces shaping work and family patterns and ideologies; implications of social change for employers, workers, and families; survey of work-family policies.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Course Rules: No credit for students with credit in SOCIOL 495 with similar topic. Previously SOCIOL 442.
Last Taught: Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Sociological analysis of the interaction between humans, their artifacts, and the natural environment.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Summer 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to the basic principles and methods of social network analysis; applications and methods that social scientists use to understand the structure and implications of social networks.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Overview of social scientific methods in data collection and research methods for studying society. Students will learn procedures for research, quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, and how to evaluate research methodologies.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines major traditions in sociological theory, including institutions, power, inequality, and meaning. Students will learn about social order, conflict, and change in contemporary social life.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Major theoretical paradigms including functionalism, conflict and dialectical models, exchange theory, symbolic interactionism, and social phenomenology.
Prerequisites: SOCIOL 375(P). Open to special students.
Last Taught: Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Theoretical perspectives, substantive themes, and methodological approaches to the study of cities. Impact of historical development and changing spatial patterns on social behavior in metropolitan areas.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course or URB STD 250(P). Open to special students.
Course Rules: SOCIOL 377 and URB STD 377 are jointly-offered and count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Selected topics in sociology.
Prerequisites: 200-level HONORS course and consent of Honors College Director.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
Independent work in specific areas of sociology under supervision.
Prerequisites: junior standing; 2.5 GPA; written consent of the instructor, department chair, and assistant dean for SAS.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Beer and brewing as windows into how people organize social structures, shape landscapes, and pursue both nutrients and intoxication, in ways that help us understand broader social, historical, and economic changes.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL or HIST course; or graduate standing; or consent of the instructor.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of SOCIOL 495 with similar topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Beer and brewing as windows into how people organize social structures, shape landscapes, and pursue both nutrients and intoxication, in ways that help us understand broader social, historical, and economic changes.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL or HIST course; or graduate standing; or consent of the instructor.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of SOCIOL 495 with similar topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
How the body is shaped by social forces. Relationship between the body, identity, and culture, focusing on gender, race/ethnicity, and disability.
Prerequisites: jr st & any Sociol course; or grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
How the body is shaped by social forces. Relationship between the body, identity, and culture, focusing on gender, race/ethnicity, and disability.
Prerequisites: jr st & any Sociol course; or grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Advanced practical training in multivariate regression using real, large datasets (surveys, census data, etc.); how multiple independent variables influence a dependent variable.
Prerequisites: junior standing and SOCIOL 261(P) or other approved statistics course; or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: No cr for students with cr in SOCIOL 499 with similar topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Advanced practical training in multivariate regression using real, large datasets (surveys, census data, etc.); how multiple independent variables influence a dependent variable.
Prerequisites: junior standing and SOCIOL 261(P) or other approved statistics course; or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: No cr for students with cr in SOCIOL 499 with similar topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of advanced principles of sociology in a business, organization, educational, political or other appropriate setting; includes course work and 120 hrs field work.
Prerequisites: junior standing; declared SOCIOL major or minor; SOCIOL 361(P); 2.75 GPA.
Last Taught: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in a selected area of Sociology. Designed to encourage discussion, debate, and critical thinking.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in a selected area of Sociology. Designed to encourage discussion, debate, and critical thinking.
Prerequisites: junior standing or higher and completion of a prior SOCIOL course; or consent of the instructor. Open to special students.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Advanced topic in sociology.
Prerequisites: junior standing or greater; additional prerequisites may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2013, Fall 2007, Fall 2004, UWinteriM 2003.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1 cr. Graduate.
Fundamentals of academic and sociological reading, writing, and thinking. Orientation to graduate study, the sociological profession, and the tools of sociological research.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
A general examination of sociological theories, their construction, problems of conceptualization, and methodological requirements.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Application of scientific methods to the analysis of social phenomena, methodological orientations in sociology, types of research procedure, and nature of sociological variables.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Review of elementary statistics. Probability theory and its applications. Multivariate analysis. Nonparametric statistical inference. Measurement theory. Selected statistical models for hypothesis testing and theory construction.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and a score of 85 on department diagnostic examination.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Graduate.
Research or thesis/paper work for students in the master's program in sociology.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Repeatable to 15 cr max. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
2 cr. Graduate.
Designed to prepare and support new teachers of undergraduates in a variety of disciplines.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Graduate.
Independent study of a topic selected by a student after consultation with member of graduate faculty.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Repeatable to 12 cr max.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
0 cr. Graduate.
Available for graduate students who must meet minimum credit load requirements.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Fee for 1 cr assessed; unit does not count towards credit load for Fin Aid. Repeatable. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Comprehensive analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of cultural and social patterns in urban settings; and future American urban social structures.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: SOCIOL 901 and URB STD 901 are jointly offered and count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Social, economic, cultural, and political forces behind the formation and reproduction of social inequalities in the United States.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Social institutions as a foundational sociological concept. Theory and research on institutional emergence, persistence, and change.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Patterns of racial and ethnic differentiation and how they originate and change over time.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2013, Fall 2010.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Selected themes in the sociology of culture, including symbols, language, forms of knowledge, power and practice, the arts, and media.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: No credit for students with credit in SOCIOL 927 with the same title.
Last Taught: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Select survey of sociological theory and research about linkages among sex, gender, social institutions, and inequality.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of SOCIOL 927 with similar topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis of major social institutions in modern societies in terms of status orders, division of labor, normative systems, processes of social change, and conflict. Specific topics and any additional prerequisites announced in Schedule of Classes
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic and consent of adviser to 9 credits maximum.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Study of conceptual approaches used in analyzing social organization: social stratification, complex organization, urbanization, small groups in mass society. Specific topics and any additional prerequisites announced in schedule of classes each time course is offered.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic & cons advisor to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Discussion of selected topics in research design, research methods, statistical analysis, and model construction.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakeable to a max of 9 cr with consent of adviser.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Overview of classic and contemporary quantitative methods for social network analysis in sociology and other fields. Methodological issues and substantive applications. Use of network analysis software.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and a graduate-level statistics course or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of SOCIOL 951 with the same title.
Last Taught: Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Seminar on logic, design, and presentation of social science research. Inductive and qualitative methods, theory construction, and ethics and procedures of research in natural settings.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: SOCIOL 979 and URB STD 979 are jointly-offered and count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2011.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Evaluation of different methods of generating data and their applications to the analysis of public policies and programs.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and a minimum score of 85 on department diagnostic exam.
Course Rules: SOCIOL 982 and URB STD 982 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Graduate.
Research for dissertation.
Prerequisites: graduate standing; admission to candidacy for PhD degree; consent of major professor.
Course Rules: Repeatable to 30 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Graduate.
Independent study of a topic selected by a student after consultation with member of graduate faculty.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Retakable to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/