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  • Department of Sociology
    1282 Social Sciences and Humanities
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-4147
    Fax: (530) 752-0783
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Sociology

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Final: Dec. 15

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.A. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • One sample of recent written work

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Exceptions

  • 9 quarter appointment rule exception: 12 quarters allowed

Students gain advanced knowledge of collective behavior and social movements; comparative/ historical culture; gender; development; economic sociology; law, deviance and social control; political sociology; social psychology; race and ethnicity, and immigration; and community and urban sociology. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in sociology.

While an M.A. degree may be obtained while pursuing a Ph.D. degree, only Ph.D. applications will be accepted.

This is a departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Sociology website.

Contacts

Program Chair
William D McCarthy
(Department Chair) 		Sociology (530) 752-1563
Eddy U
(Graduate Program Chair) 		Sociology (530) 752-8163
Academic Advisers
Tom Beamish
(Adviser: General) 		Sociology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-6897
William D McCarthy
(Adviser: General) 		Sociology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-1563
Dina G Okamoto
(Adviser: Admissions and General) 		Sociology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-6772
Eddy U
(Adviser: Primary Contact) 		Sociology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-8163
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Denise Besser Anthropology and Sociology (530) 752-4147
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292