Department Specializations & Affiliated Programs

Specialty Areas

As a prime center of sociological research, the Department of Sociology represents a diverse range of epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches that drive an equally diverse range of research and teaching areas, including (but not restricted to):

• Environmental Sociology
• Gender
• Crime and Deviance
• Qualitative & Interpretive Sociology
• Population & Health

Affiliated Departments & Programs

• Anthropology Department
  


• ATLAS: Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society


• Business/Entrepreneurial Certificates through CU's Business School (Leeds)


• CLASP-Culture, Language, & Social Practice Graduate Certificate Program
  The interdisciplinary CLASP Graduate Certificate is designed to complement other graduate degree programs. It provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue the study of language and society from an interdisciplinary perspective, acquiring a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the sociocultural analysis of language.


• Communication Department
  


• Demography Certificate
  Students from Geography, Sociology, and Economics may earn a certificate in demography through the Population Program while earning graduate degrees in their respective departments. Graduate certificates are awarded at both the M.A. and Ph.D. level. This certificate program, the oldest of its kind at the University of Colorado, uniquely combines interdisciplinary social science research with graduate training.
  
  
• Development Studies Certificate
  Because development issues such as agrarian change, labor migration, new social movements, industrial growth, urban planning, and natural resource use cut across disciplinary divides, the study of development demands interdisciplinary approaches. The Graduate certificate in Development Studies provides students training in a structured yet flexible program that incorporates coursework across the social sciences.
  
  
• Economics Department
  


• Environment, Policy, & Society Graduate Certificate
  The interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program in Environment, Policy, and Society allows students to engage in exploration of contemporary environmental problems by drawing from courses across a wide range of social science disciplines.


• Environmental Studies Department


• Ethnic Studies Department
  


• Geography Department
  Graduate students may be especially interested in the interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Development Studies (see above) coordinated through the Geography department.


• Graduate Teacher Program This program offers teacher training, teaching certificate options, and professional development certificate opportunities.


• History Department
  


• Institute of Behavioral Science
  Many sociology faculty members and graduate students work with the interdisciplinary research institute, which specializes in five areas: Environment and Society, Health and Society, Problem Behavior, Institutions, and Population. These include the Natural Hazards Center and work for the African Population Studies Center. Both of these centers are directed by professors in sociology.


• Journalism and Mass Communication Department


• Librarianship Fellowship
  Provost Graduate Student Fellowship in the University Libraries.


• Political Science Department
  


• Psychology Department
  


• Religious Studies Department
  


• Science & Technology Policy Certificate for Graduate Students
  This multi-disciplinary certificate program admits 18 students per year, who take take coursework on the science and technology and on methodologies of policy analysis that are used in decision settings related to science and technology.


• Women & Gender Studies Program
  The Women and Gender Studies program has an interdisciplinary faculty and offers a minor for undergraduates and a graduate certificate program for advanced students.
  

Symposia and Conferences

• Conference for the CLASP program


• Conference on World Affairs
  This conference was started in 1948. Each April features one hundred presenters on a wide range of topics and from diverse backgrounds for this "extravaganza" of panels, plenaries and performances that bring together the university community and the broader world community into discussion and debate on pressing local and global matters.


• Forum on Science Ethics and Policy (FOSEP)


• Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference