This course provides students with hands-on experience conducting quantitative research. Each student will design and carry out a research project using secondary data. Students will select their own research questions, review the relevant sociological literature, develop a research design, conduct statistical analyses and write up and present their findings.
This course has been designated an Applied Writing Skills Course.

After 9/11, terrorism was labeled a global threat, fueling the war on terror and the adoption of extensive counterterrorism actions. These measures, however, often compromised human rights in the pursuit of national security goals. This course grapples with questions pertaining to terrorism, counterterrorism, and human rights in the age of security.

Examines the relationship between contemporary modes of international migration and the formation of transnational social relations and social formations. Considers the impact of trans-nationalisms on families, communities, nation-states, etc.
This course has been designated an Applied Writing Skills Course.

This course links studies in the classical sociology of resources and territory (as in the works of Harold Innis, S.D. Clark, and the Chicago School), with modern topics in ecology and environmentalism. The course will use empirical research and theoretical issues to explore the relationship between various social systems and their natural environments.

An examination of a number of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing particularly upon gender and higher education.

This course surveys key topics in contemporary sociological theory. The development of sociological theory from the end of World War II to the late 1960's. Special attention is devoted to the perspectives of Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism.
This course has been designated an Applied Writing Skills Course.

Provides an introduction to the emergence, organization and regulation of various media forms; social determinants and effects of media content; responses of media audiences; and other contemporary media issues.

This course examines youth as a social category, and how young people experience and shape societies. Topics include: youth and social inequality; social change and social movements, and youth and education.

The course covers various approaches to the study of law in society. Topics covered may include the interaction between law, legal, non-legal institutions and social factors, the social development of legal institutions, forms of social control, legal regulation, the interaction between legal cultures, the social construction of legal issues, legal profession, and the relation between law and social change.

An introduction to organizational and economic sociology through the lens of creative industries. Students will be introduced to different theoretical paradigms in the study of organizations, industries, and fields. The course is divided into four major modules on creative industries: inequality and occupational careers; organizational structure and decision making under conditions of uncertainty; market and field-level effects; and distribution and promotion.
This course has been designated an Applied Writing Skills Course.

This course will examine the healh and well-being of Indigenous peoples, given historic and contemporary issues. A critical examination of the social determinants of health, including the cultural, socioeconomic and political landscape, as well as the legacy of colonialism, will be emphasized. An overview of methodologies and ethical issues working with Indigenous communities in health research and developing programs and policies will be provided. The focus will be on the Canadian context, but students will be exposed to the issues of Indigenous peoples worldwide.

Same as HLTC49H3

This course explores the social meaning and influence of religion in social life. As a set of beliefs, symbols and motivations, as well as a structural system, religion is multifaceted and organizes many aspects of our daily life. This course surveys key theoretical paradigms on the meaning of religion and the social implications of religious transformations across time. It takes up basic questions about how religion is shaped by various political, social, and economic forces.

An examination of a current topic relevant to the study of health and society. The specific topic will vary from year to year.

Same as HLTC51H3

The course examines the relationship between the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples and immigration in settler-colonial states. The focus is on Canada as a traditional country of immigration. Topics considered include historical and contemporary immigration and settlement processes, precarious forms of citizenship and noncitizenship, racism and racial exclusion, and the politics of treaty citizenship. Discussion puts the Canadian case in comparative perspective.

Sociological analysis of the role of culture in societies is offered under this course. Topics may include the study of material cultures such as works of art, religious symbols, or styles of clothing, or non-material cultures such as the values, norms, rituals, and beliefs that orient action and social life.

This course addresses key concepts and debates in the research on race and ethnicity. Topics covered may include historical and global approaches to: assimilation, ethnic relations, intersectionality, racialization, and scientific racism.

This course examines how the three-axis of social stratification and inequality – race, gender, and class – shape economic activity in different settings – from labour markets to financial markets to consumer markets to dating markets to household economies to intimate economies to informal and illegal economies to markets of human goods.

A sociological examination of contemporary global transformations including changing social, economic, and political conditions. Topics examined may include the shifting nature of state-society relations in a global context; the emergence of globally-integrated production, trade and financial systems; and the dynamics of local and transnational movements for global social change.
This course has been designated as a Writing Skills course.

Sociological analyses of stratification processes and the production of social inequality with a focus on economy and politics. Topics covered may include work and labour markets, the state and political processes. Attention is given to grassroots mobilization, social movements, and contestatory politics.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is an historic process that now directs a core area of Canadian politics and governance. This course examines the institutional and legal history, precedents, contradictions and consequences of the commission from a sociological perspective.

This course examines how quantitative models can be used to understand the social world with a focus on social inequality and social change. Students will learn the fundamentals of modern computational techniques and data analysis, including how to effectively communicate findings using narratives and visualizations. Topics covered include data wrangling, graphic design, regression analysis, interactive modelling, and categorical data analysis. Methods will be taught using real-world examples in sociology with an emphasis on understanding key concepts rather than mathematical formulas.

This course offers an in-depth examination of selected topics in Culture and Cities. Check the department website for more details. This course has been designated a Research Skills Course

The intensive international field school course is an experiential and land-based learning trip to Indigenous territories in Costa Rica, in order to learn about settler colonialism, Indigenous communities, and UNDRIP (the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples). Students will learn with Indigenous Costa Rican university students and community partners in order to draw links between policy frameworks (UNDRIP), ideologies (colonialism) and the impacts on Indigenous communities (e.g. education, health, food security, language retention, land rights). The course involves 14-16 days of in-country travel. This course has been designated as a Research Skills course.

This course offers an in-depth examination of selected topics in Criminology and Sociology of Law. Check the department website for more details. This course has been designated a Research Skills Course

This course charts the legal norms and social relations that, from the 1700s to the present, have turned land into a place and an idea called Scarborough. Students work with a diversity of sources and artifacts such as crown patents, government reports and Indigenous legal challenges, historical and contemporary maps and land surveys, family letters, historical plaques, and Indigenous artists’ original works to trace the conflicts and dialogues between Indigenous and settler place-making in Scarborough. This course has been designated a Research Skills Course.

This course offers an in-depth examination of selected topics in Gender and Family. Check the department website for details at: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/sociology/programs.

This course provides an introduction to the field of program and policy evaluation. Evaluation plays an important role in evidence based decision making in all aspects of society. Students will gain insight into the theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical aspects of evaluation across different settings. The relative strengths and weaknesses of various designs used in applied social research to examine programs and policies will be covered.

Same as HLTD11H3

An examination of sociological approaches to the study of visual art. Topics include the social arrangements and institutional processes involved in producing, consecrating, distributing, and marketing art as well as artistic consumption practices.

This is an advanced course on the sub-filed of economic sociology that focuses on money and finance. This course examines how cultural values and social relations shape money and finance in a variety of substantive settings, including the historical emergence of money as currency, the expansion of the financial system since the 1980s, financial markets, growing household involvement in the stock and credit market, and implications for social life (e.g., how credit scores shape dating).

This course offers an in-depth examination of selected topics in Migration Studies. Students will be required to conduct independent research based on primary and/or secondary data sources. Check the department website for details at: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/sociology/programs.