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Why consider UC for graduate work in sociology? Because the department offers a number of things crucial to a successful graduate student experience, and to a successful career after receiving a degree.
First, we have a knowledgeable and professionally engaged faculty. UC Sociology faculty are actively involved in research and publication. Recent publications from UC faculty have appeared in such respected and diverse journals as: Social Problems, Sociological Theory, The Sociological Quarterly, Work and Occupations, Sociological Perspectives, Ethnicity and Disease, Law and Society Review, Public Health Reports, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.
Our faculty regularly receive important professional recognition as well. For example, one member of the faculty recently served as President of the North Central Sociological Association, while another is on the Executive Council of the Southern Sociological Society and was program chair of its annual meeting. Two other professors were just elected Chairs of Sections of the American Sociological Association, one of the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology, the other of the Section on Collective Behavior/Social Movements. Finally, members of our faculty are currently editing two journals – Sociological Focus, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Second, we have significant resources for supporting graduate students and their research. Every year there are assistantships available, these pay for student’s tuition and provide a stipend. Some graduate assistants work with professors on their classes, working with undergraduate students. Others are assigned to work with professors on their research projects, often leading to opportunities to co-author papers and publications.
The department also houses the Kunz Center for the Study of Work and Family. The Kunz Center has funds that help support grad student and faculty research, as well as providing money to support travel to professional conferences. The University of Cincinnati’s Taft Research Center also makes travel and research support available to sociology graduate students.
Third, the department offers a curriculum that features both depth and breadth. As a department there are four basic areas of research and instruction: Work and Family; Social Psychology; Structures of Inequality; and Demography and Population Studies. Students take courses within each of those areas, assuring a wide-ranging education, but then tailor their own research to their individual interests, getting an in-depth look at some particular subjects. In addition, the program trains students in statistics and quantitative methods, as well as providing training in qualitative methods.
UC graduates now teach in schools such as Old Dominion University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and Northern Kentucky University. Others work in for-profit businesses, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, in the greater Cincinnati area as well as nationwide.
Finally, along with many students from the greater Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, eastern Indiana area, we have students from all over the nation and the world.
Thus, for our faculty, our resources, our curriculum, and our graduate student body of interesting and involved students, we think graduate education in sociology at UC is a great opportunity.