Honours BA in Sociology

The Honours Bachelor of Arts in Sociology is a degree program consisting of 40 courses, 20 of which are taken in the Sociology department. Graduates of our program have the theoretical and practical skills needed to critically engage in the world today.

Degree Requirements

Before you start!

This page provides an overview of the degree requirements, and does not provide full information about course pre-requisites and exclusions.

If you are a current student, make sure that you meet all of the degree requirements by:

filling in the (PDF file) Sociology Honours BA Course Planner (PDF, 88 KB) (opens in new window)
checking your Advisement Report (opens in new window) on MyServiceHub
checking the current Undergraduate Calendar (opens in new window)

Introductory Courses

SOC 105: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 107: Sociology of the Everyday
SSH 105: Critical Thinking
SSH 205: Academic Writing and Research
two introductory humanities courses (Table I)
two introductory social science courses (Table I)
two non-sociology elective courses (see Calendar for details)

Sociology Required Courses

SOC 427: Indigenous Perspectives on Canada
SOC 470: Toronto the Changing City

Sociological Theory

SOC 473: Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 475: Contemporary Sociological Theory

Research Methods

SSH 301: Research Design and Qualitative Methods
SOC 411: Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis
SOC 481: Survey Design and Analysis
SOC 482: Advanced Methods of Media Analysis
SOC 483: Advanced Statistical Modeling

Senior Level Required Course

SOC 490: Capstone: Specializing your Knowledge

Sociology Elective Courses

Take two of the following courses:

SOC 300: Sociology of Equity and Diversity
SOC 420: Social Class in Changing Times
SOC 525: Media and Images of Inequality
SOC 608: Women, Power and Change

Take six additional courses from the list of Sociology electives (Table II)

Senior Level Elective Course

Take one of the following senior-level courses:

SOC 491: Independent Sociological Analysis (get more information)
SOC 492: Current Social Issue Focus
SOC 493: Making Social Change
SOC 494: Career Integration

Non-Sociology Elective Courses

two lower-level liberal studies courses
four upper-level liberal studies courses
five additional non-sociology elective courses (see Calendar for details)

Use these elective courses to earn a Minor, (opens in new window) by taking the courses specified in the Undergraduate Calendar.