Many department faculty are members of the graduate faculty in Sociology and the department actively supports the Sociology specialty within the Sociology graduate program. Sociology graduate students have a wide range of opportunities to design innovative programs of study for the M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. All students receive core training in social theory and research methods.

Graduate students have the option of combining work in Sociology with complementary training in other specialty areas within the sociology graduate program: Crime, Law & Deviance; Families, Aging & Health; Political Sociology & Social Movements; Social Inequalities; and Work, Organizations & Economy. Students may also seek an Environmental Systems Certification through the interdisciplinary Environmental Systems Program or develop multi-disciplinary specializations in such related social sciences as Agricultural Economics, Anthropology, and Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation.

For more information about graduate study in Rural Sociology and Development, e-mail the Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology ( socdgs@uky.edu ), visit the Department of Sociology web site, or contact either:

Department of Sociology
1523 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Phone: 859-257-3451  Fax: 859-323-0272

or

Department of Community & Leadership Development
500 Garrigus Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0215
Phone: 859-257-3471  Fax: 859-257-1164

SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDIES