Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology - Health and Aging

The Department of Sociology offers graduate degree programs leading to the Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. The department's primary objective is to enable students in our graduate programs to become scholars who are able to conduct high-quality, innovative research and to provide the education and training that will serve as a basis for independent or collaborative research, depending on the individual graduate's professional goals. Our graduates typically secure jobs as professors at research universities and liberal arts colleges or as researchers in non-profits and government agencies. The Master of Science in Applied Social Research and Master of Science in Sociology with a Major in Aging and Health may be completed in one calendar year if entered in the Fall semester. Requirements for the degrees as well as other rules and procedures are listed in the Guide to Graduate Studies in Sociology, a document that is updated as changes are made in the program.
Our Health and Aging area offers courses focusing on medical sociology, caregiving in later life, sexual health, successful aging, health over the life course, race/ethnicity and health, stress and mental health, gender and mental health, families and the life course, sexual and reproductive health, social epidemiology, health and aging, neighborhoods and health, and data analysis for public health. Eight of our faculty are affiliated with this area of concentration: Barrett, Burdette, Carr, McFarland, J. Taylor, M. Taylor, Ueno, Waggoner. They have published research on subjective aging, gender and depression, infant mortality, cancer, disabilities across the life course, how race, class, gender, and sexuality shape health outcomes, neighborhood and religious correlates of health and illness, how education affects health from birth to death, veterans’ mental and physical health, and the political/cultural construction of genetics, allergies, and maternal health.

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