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Announcing New Graduate Ph.D. Program

The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce a new Ph.D. program beginning in Fall, 2009. The program emphasizes multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and scholarship related specifically to the study of Sustainable Communities in Global and Urban Environments. Designed to prepare students to engage in research and teaching that focus on the post-industrial urban environment, the program requires a minimum of 60-credit hours beyond the M.A. and includes an interdisciplinary professional seminar, disciplinary core requirements (Advanced Research Methods and Study Design, Advanced Sociological Theory, a Speciality Methods course), disciplinary electives, interdisciplinary electives, a capstone interdisciplinary seminar, and a dissertation.

The application deadline for Fall 2010 admissions is January 15, 2010

Follow the links on the left for further information or contact: Donileen R. Loseke, Professor and Graduate Director socgraddirector@cas.usf.edu

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