Graduate Minor in Sociology & Sociology of Law, Criminology, and Justice

If you are pursuing a graduate degree in another department, you may minor in sociology. Contact Evva Parsons at [email protected], sociology's graduate program coordinator, for more information about our graduate minor.

Through the exploration of social and individual dynamics, we prepare our students to enrich social scientific understandings of the complex problems societies face today. Research specialties include:

1. Demography, family, and life course

2. Global, transnational, and comparative sociology

3. Inequalities and culture

4. Law, crime, punishment, and human rights

Students interested in the minor are strongly encouraged to confer with their major field advisor and director of graduate studies, and the Sociology graduate program coordinator regarding feasibility and requirements.

Students pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in areas outside of sociology are invited to consider a master’s or doctoral minor in Sociology.

At the master’s level, you must complete a minimum of 6 graduate-level credits in Sociology at the 5000 or 8000-level.

At the PhD level, you must complete a minimum of 12 graduate-level credits in Sociology at the 5000 or 8000-level.

You must have a member of the sociology faculty serve on your examination committee. Courses used toward the minor on the graduate degree plan must be approved by the Department of Sociology’s director of graduate studies.

The graduate program coordinator must approve each student's GPAS plan at the time of submission to certify that the Sociology graduate minor requirements have been fulfilled.