Sociology, PhD—Advanced Entry (Boston)

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Foundations

• SOCL 7200 — Foundations of Social Theory 1
• SOCL 7201 — Foundations of Social Theory 2

Proseminars

• SOCL 7001 — Proseminar 1: Acclimating to Graduate School
• SOCL 7002 — Proseminar 2: Academic Planning
• SOCL 7003 — Proseminar 3: Committee, Topics, and Reading Lists
• SOCL 7004 — Proseminar 4: Field Statement Writing

Research Methods

• INSH 6300 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• INSH 6500 — Statistical Analysis

Advanced Methods

From the catalog

Complete 8 semester hours from the following. Courses not listed need approval from student's advisor:

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • INSH 5602 — Archives and Ethnography
  • INSH 6101 — Agent-Based Modeling for Applied and Social Sciences
  • INSH 6406 — Analyzing Complex Digitized Data
  • INSH 7101 — Qualitative Research Design
  • INSH 7102 — Qualitative Data Analysis
  • INSH 7103 — Mixed Methods Research
  • INSH 7300 — Advanced Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • INSH 7400 — Quantitative Analysis
  • INSH 7500 — Advanced Quantitative Analysis
  • INSH 7600 — Multilevel Theorizing and Analysis
  • PHTH 7101 — Qualitative Research Design
  • PHTH 7102 — Qualitative Data Analysis
  • PPUA 6502 — Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning
  • PPUA 6509 — Techniques of Program Evaluation
  • PPUA 7237 — Advanced Spatial Analysis of Urban Systems

Electives

From the catalog

Complete 12 semester hours in the following ranges. Courses in additional disciplines need student's advisor approval:

CRIM 6000 to CRIM 7999

INSH 6000 to INSH 7999

POLS 6000 to POLS 7999

PPUA 6000 to PPUA 7999

SOCL 6000 to SOCL 7999

WMNS 6000 to WMNS 7999

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • Any CRIM course numbered 6000–7999
  • Any INSH course numbered 6000–7999
  • Any POLS course numbered 6000–7999
  • Any PPUA course numbered 6000–7999
  • Any SOCL course numbered 6000–7999
  • Any WMNS course numbered 6000–7999

Exam Preparation

From the catalog

Students register for this course while writing each of their two field statements. Must take twice:

• One of:
  • SOCL 8960 — Exam Preparation—Doctoral

Research

• One of:
  • SOCL 8986 — Research

Dissertation

• One of:
  • SOCL 9990 — Dissertation Term 1
  • SOCL 9991 — Dissertation Term 2

Dissertation Continuation

From the catalog

Following completion of two semesters of dissertation, registration in the following class is required in each semester (including the summer if the dissertation is submitted in summer) until the dissertation is completed:

• One of:
  • SOCL 9996 — Dissertation Continuation

GPA requirements

• 40 total semester hours required Minimum 3.500 GPA required

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under sociology-phdadvancedentry-boston, and the official page is the authority.