Program Overview

Sociology

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences @ UWindsor

Program Overview & Highlights

• General 3-Year Program
• Honours 4-Year Program
• Combined Honours Programs Available
• B.A.

Society is complicated. You’ll learn how to unravel its most urgent issues in this program that is focused on research, analysis and communication — skills relevant to a wide range of fields. You can tailor your degree by picking courses that match your interests. The department is small, ensuring you’ll get lots of personal attention.

• professors are involved in policy, research, and advocacy – students are able to relate to these real-life topics and discuss in class
• study a broad range of topics that range from the sociology of families, to genocide and war crimes, and to culture and social movements
• get career-ready with hands-on experience in our 4th year practicum course

What Lancers Are Saying

• Engaging in various campus club activities relating to my major was the greatest asset towards improving my resumé. From being able to network with United Nations leaders from all over the world, as well as becoming a well-rounded candidate for job applications, I can confidently say that getting involved with University of Windsor campus clubs could be every students’ peak of their educational career.
• My experience in the sociology and criminology program at the University of Windsor has been one filled with learning and anticipation of what is to come.... I am eager to absorb more information and learn why my area of study has such an impactful and profound presence in Canada, not to mention internationally.

Faculty & Staff

• Student Recruitment Officer: Selena Randhawa
• Recruitment & Outreach Coordinator: Sheri Lowrie

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: English/ENG4U (min. avg. 60%)
• Minimum Average: 70%
• Mean Average: 80%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Grade 12 English
• Minimum Average: 70%
• Mean Average: 83%

Career Tracks

• Immigration officer
• human resources manager
• community relations worker
• mediator
• case worker
• border services
• child and youth worker
• community relations worker
• consultant
• court monitor
• demographer
• development analyst
• law enforcement officer
• lawyer
• legal consultant
• mediator
• paralegal
• policy analyst
• probation officer
• professor
• research co-ordinator
• support worker
• social worker
• youth worker
• teacher

Related Programs

• Social Work
• Social Work and Disability Studies
• Family and Social Relations

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

1. ENGL-1010 is required for all FAHSS Majors .Students with 80% or higher in Grade 12 ENG4U (or equivalent) are exempt from this course requirement and will substitute it with an additional course from any area of study.
2. All FAHSS programs require students to take one course with Indigenous content, perspectives, or materials. This can be done at any time during the student’s undergraduate education. See this link for course options:
   Not all Indigenous content courses are offered every term.
3. Language courses count as Arts or Science courses.

Required Course Notes

Major Courses

• SACR 1100

Required Course:

• ENGL 1010

Recommended Other Courses

• GART 1210
• One Social Science
• One Arts
• One Language or Science

Required Courses

ENGL 1010: Academic Writing

An introduction to the fundamentals of effective writing in academic contexts. Topics may include language, essay writing conventions, critical thinking, research, editing and revising, and academic integrity. (1.5 lecture, 1.5 laboratory hours per week.) (Arts elective only; does not count for credit in the major or minor Fall 2025 Undergraduate Calendar 104 course requirements of any English or English and Creative Writing degree programs.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1001 or GART 1510.)

SACR 1100: Foundations of Social Life

This course will introduce students to the key concepts, theories, and methods appropriate to Sociology, and Criminology. Focus will be on application of issues important to studying social life using multiple perspectives while exercising the sociological imagination. Topics may include discussion of culture, gender, social stratification, race and ethnicity, family, and crime and deviance.

Recommended Courses

GART 1210: An Introduction into Indigenous Topics

This course introduces students to Indigenous histories, perspectives, and modern realities through an Indigenous lens. The role of colonization is introduced as Indigenous relationships on Turtle Island changed as a result of contact and colonization. This survey course provides a learning opportunity for students to engage in Indigenous pedagogy and worldview as they learn how history impacts the contemporary lives of Indigenous people. Through exploring relationships, this course engages critical reading, writing and thinking skills through course lectures and seminar activities. The history of relations assists in understanding how colonization’s policies and statutory documents thereafter affected Indigenous peoples, such as the Royal Proclamation, Treaties, the Indian Act, the British North America Act (1867), and the Constitution Act (1982). Today, these colonial-state governance documents are a significant part of Indigenous-Crown and Indigenous-settler relations. (2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.) (Also offered as SOSC-1210.)