The department admits a small number of well-qualified candidates to its Ph.D. program each year. Successful applicants must in addition to University Requirements, submit current (within the last 5 years) GRE General Test scores, three letters of recommendation, two writing samples, and a letter of intent. The Sociology Department recommends applicants have 12 credit hours of advanced undergraduate sociology courses, including statistics and methods courses (or the equivalents). We also recommend college-level algebra or its equivalent. In addition, such factors such as the University's commitment to affirmative action, the applicant's non-academic experience, and the ability of the department to provide faculty guidance and courses in the applicant's areas of interest are considered.
The Ph.D. degree requires 48 credit hours of coursework and 18 credit hours of dissertation. Students must also pass comprehensive examinations and write and successfully defend a dissertation.
Areas for Graduate Specialization
Crime, Law, and Social Control
Our research area group provides sophisticated training and conducts cutting-edge research on the causes and consequences of crime, law and social control. With seven sociologically-oriented criminologists on our faculty, we are uniquely situated among programs to query the broad structural antecedents and dynamic social processes that undergird crime and justice.
Sociology of Health and Illness
Our Sociology of Health & Illness program for graduate students draws on our unique location in New Mexico to foster research that addresses the wide array of health care problems in the United States. New Mexico’s particular character presents distinct opportunities with regard to how we think about – and address – the relationship between health, illness, and social factors.
Race and Ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity comprise two of the most important forms of social differentiation in the United States society as well as in countries around the world. What is race? What is ethnicity? Students could well consider how their own embodied lifelong and cumulative experiences with race, racialization and academic training shape their conceptualizations and praxis (e.g., research, teaching and policy).
Social Movements
Our research area group on social movements includes multiple faculty studying U.S., Latin American, and transnational movements, within the context of the political sociology literature. We offer broad training for graduate students interested movements striving for political, cultural, and/or societal change, with particular depth in the role of culture (including religion) in motivating and sustaining collective action.
Planlanan Ağustos 2023
College of Arts and Sciences
MSC 03 2120, Ortega Hall 201,
1 University of New Mexico,
ALBUQUERQUE,
New Mexico,
87131, United States
Graduate applicants must have an earned degree that is equivalent to the U.S. bachelor’s degree from a recognized university as determined by the Office of International Admissions.
A minimum grade point average of 3.0 (on a U.S. 4.0 scale) or comparable grade point average in upper-division (junior- and senior-level) coursework and in any graduate coursework already completed.
Demonstrated proficiency in English:
International English Language Testing System (IELTS) - minimum score 6.5; the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - minimum score 550 paper-based, or 79-80 Internet-based; the Duolingo English Test - minimum score 105; the University of Cambridge Examinations Certificate of Proficiency in English (CAPE) or Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) - minimum score C; or the Pearson Test of English- Academic (PTE) - minimum score 53
Application Deadlines
Completed applications submitted by January 15th will receive priority consideration for admittance.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis through April 15th, as long as spots remain.
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