University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology
The Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in Humanities and Social Sciences is offered by University of Southern California.
A minimum of 60 graduate units is necessary for the PhD, among which are the following required courses: SOCI 500, SOCI 510, SOCI 520, SOCI 521, SOCI 511, and SOCI 621 or 620. In addition, each student must specialize in two subareas of sociology and must take at least 8 units in each area such as: urban sociology, complex organizations, stratification, ethnic relations, sociology of aging, medical sociology, communication and culture, deviance, sociology of gender, demography, and so on.