Admission Criteria

In addition to the general requirements for admission to the Graduate School (see the General Information section of this catalog), applicants for admission to the Master of Arts program in sociology are expected to have completed  an undergraduate major  or minor in sociology or a related discipline. Students who do not meet these criteria may be required to enroll in undergraduate sociology courses before being fully admitted into the program. All application materials  should  be submitted  to the Texas Southern University Graduate School, not to the Department of Sociology. The Department of Sociology Graduate Program Committee will review all applications and make recommendations to the Dean of the Graduate School.

Curriculum Summary

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Core Curriculum (Thesis)		18
Electives		18
Total Hours		36

Core Curriculum Requirements (Thesis)

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
SOC 525	Fundamentals of Sociology 1	3
SOC 554	Advanced Sociological Statist	3
SOC 557	Advanced Sociological Theory	3
SOC 559	Urban Research Methods	3
SOC 899	Thesis (A&B) 2	6
Total Hours		18

¹

SOC 525 Fundamentals of Sociology—is required for students who do not have an undergraduate major or minor in sociology and may be taken by other students as an elective.

²

Thesis research courses receive grades of satisfactory or unsatisfactory only. Grades are assigned only after the defense of the thesis. A successful defense and submission of the thesis requires the supervising member of the faculty to assign a satisfactory grade for the appropriate research course.

Elective Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Select six courses from the following:		18
SOC 530	Topical Seminar
SOC 532	Sociology Of Religion
SOC 539	Seminar in Urban Sociology
SOC 545	Sociology of Family
SOC 623	Seminar In Social Psychology
SOC 634	Crim Jus & Urban Comm
SOC 639	Seminar In Urban Pol Sociology
SOC 710	Seminar in Soc Stratification
SOC 715	Sociology of Learning
SOC 720	Sem In Clinical Soc
SOC 739	Sem in Public and Soc Policy
SOC 750	Race and Ethnicity
SOC 840	Seminar in Gerontology
SOC 857	Advanced Sociological Theory
SOC 859	Advance Project Design
SOC 880	Sociology of Hlth and Medicine
Total Hours		18