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PhD students with Dr. Crawley (December 2010)

Drs. Cavendish and Crawley with Danielle Schwied, Program Development Coordinator

Department Meeting (Spring 2010)

On the Sociology porch (Spring 2010)

Fall 2011 Sociology Open House

First PhD cohort with Dr. Mayberry (August 2009)

2011 Wallace Recipients - Amanda Plazarin and Carlos Flores with Dr. Graham

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News and Announcements News \| View Undergraduate Advising \| Click here to make an appointment Announcing New Graduate Ph.D. Program In addition to our long-standing M.A. program, the Department of Sociology started offering a Ph.D. program in Fall 2009. The Ph.D. 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 deadline for Ph.D. applications is January 15. The deadline for M.A. applications is February 15.	Spotlight Are you currently an undergraduate sociology major committed to this field? Learn more about The Richard J. Wallace Scholarship in Sociology on our undergraduate page. Applications are currently being accepted. Upcoming Speakers and Events Please join us for "Green Card Stories: A Book Presentation and Panel Discussion on the Face of Immigration and Reform" an event co-sponsored by ISLAC, the Department of Sociology, and the Institute on Black Life on Wednesday, February 22 at 6:00pm in room 131 of the Patel Center. USF and the Department of Religious Studies presents “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Religions: Globalization & Sustainability” Thursday, March 1, 2012 Conference website: http://religious-studies.usf.edu/conference/ Spring 2012 COLLOQUIUM SERIES DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY Friday, March 2nd at 12:45 pm in the Grace Allen Room: Larry Isaac Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology Editor, American Sociological Review Vanderbilt University “'Movement Schools' and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Praxis in the Southern Civil Rights Movement” Friday, April 6th at 12:45 pm in EDU 408A: Lakshmi Jayaram Assistant Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies Faculty Affiliate, Women’s & Gender Studies Virginia Tech “Gendered Trajectories: Educational and Occupational Attainment Expectations Among Mothers of Urban Youth”

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Undergraduate Advising | Click here to make an appointment

Announcing New Graduate Ph.D. Program

In addition to our long-standing M.A. program, the Department of Sociology started offering a Ph.D. program in Fall 2009. The Ph.D. 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 deadline for Ph.D. applications is January 15.

The deadline for M.A. applications is February 15.

Spotlight

Are you currently an undergraduate sociology major committed to this field? Learn more about The Richard J. Wallace Scholarship in Sociology on our undergraduate page. Applications are currently being accepted.

**Upcoming Speakers and Events**

Please join us for "Green Card Stories: A Book Presentation and Panel Discussion on the Face of Immigration and Reform" an event co-sponsored by ISLAC, the Department of Sociology, and the Institute on Black Life on Wednesday, February 22 at 6:00pm in room 131 of the Patel Center.

USF and the Department of Religious Studies presents
“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Religions: Globalization & Sustainability”
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Conference website: http://religious-studies.usf.edu/conference/

Spring 2012 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Friday, March 2nd at 12:45 pm in the Grace Allen Room:
Larry Isaac
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology
Editor, American Sociological Review
Vanderbilt University
“'Movement Schools' and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Praxis in the
Southern Civil Rights Movement”

Friday, April 6th at 12:45 pm in EDU 408A:
Lakshmi Jayaram
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Women’s & Gender Studies
Virginia Tech
“Gendered Trajectories: Educational and Occupational Attainment
Expectations Among Mothers of Urban Youth”