Program Overview

Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Sociology

The Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Sociology is a comprehensive program designed to equip students with advanced knowledge and skills in sociological theories, research methods, and policy analysis. The program aims to enable students to employ advanced sociological theories in the analysis of social phenomena and problems, acquire advanced applied research skills, and prepare and design social policies, strategic plans, and programs.

Program Goals

• Enable students to employ advanced sociological theories in the analysis of social phenomena and problems
• Support students to acquire advanced applied research skills
• Enable students to prepare and design social policies, strategic plans, and programs
• Train students to work in relevant national, regional, or international institutions
• Train highly qualified future leaders in comprehensive development, social work, and national security
• Equip trained and qualified professionals to meet the needs of social, economic, and political development
• Develop and support students' initiatives in various fields of development, social work, and criminal justice

Program Requirements

Specialization Areas

The program offers three specialization areas:

1. Development Policy: This area focuses on development theories, research seminar on development policy, developmental planning, human development, and migration analysis.
2. Criminology and Criminal Justice: This area focuses on crime theory, international terrorism, victimology, crime scene, reformation and rehabilitation, criminal law, and national security.
3. Social Work: This area focuses on research seminar on crime theory, research seminar on international terrorism, victimology, crime scene, reformation and rehabilitation, and criminal law.

Course Descriptions

• Research Seminar on Sociological Theory: This course focuses on modern sociological theories, including phenomenology and rational choice theory.
• Advanced Social Research (in English): This course provides a comprehensive examination of the Linear Regression Model and Multiple Linear Regression.
• Applied Social Statistics (in English): This course provides a detailed overview of topics central to sound advanced social research.
• Research Seminar on Social Problems: This course entails analyzing and discussing social problems within the context of scientific concepts and their interpretative sociological theories.
• Advanced Research Seminar on Policy Analysis: This course is designed to focus on analyzing social policies, especially those pertaining to family, crime, and criminal justice.
• Field Training: This course provides training in the form of advanced special workshops in areas of family counseling and social work, or in criminology and criminal justice.

Additional Courses

• Professional Practice in Social Work: This course focuses on the concept of professional practice in social work and professional intervention theories.
• Society and Law: This course deals with familiarizing students with the most significant laws pertaining to areas of national security, determiners of laws, international and local legislations related to national security and properties of a legal character.
• Issues in Social Work: This course aims to allow students to understand issues affecting society from social work approaches.
• Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice: This course is designed to enable students to develop an understanding and awareness of the central topics involved in the study of crime and criminal justice.
• Research Seminar on Sociology of the Family: This research seminar deals with the social context of intimate relationships, their dynamics, entries as well as challenges and opportunities of family.
• Research Seminar on Family Counselling: This course studies modern trends in family counseling and treatment, samples of contemporary family problems in the Emirati family.
• Group Dynamics: This course handles different theories and social research methods on group dynamics.
• Special Topic: This course deals with demonstrating, examining, and discussing major social issues in criminal law, social work, and family counseling in Emirati and Arab societies.
• Research Seminar on Terrorism: This course aims at introducing terrorism cases in light of interpretive theoretical frameworks.
• Crime Scene: This course includes a detailed description of crime types based on social classes, psychological, social, and biological motives.
• Research Seminar on Crime Theory: This course aims at introducing different approaches to studying crime theory and contemporary theories.
• Victimology: This course aims at introducing victimology and investigating characteristics of victims and interpretative theories.
• Criminal Law: This course is defined as a set of legal rules that determine which human actions are considered to be crimes.
• National Security: This course aims to introduce the concepts and theories of national security as well as demonstrating the relationship between security theories and practical reality.
• Criminal Psychology: This course deals with different theories and research methods of social psychology.
• Rehabilitation and Reformation: This course introduces students to concepts and processes of social and professional rehabilitation, reformation of prison inmates in correctional facilities.
• Human Development: This research seminar discusses concepts of human development, its indicators, its dimensions, and its measurements.
• Migration Analysis: This course aims to familiarize students with the most important theories dealing with the topic of migration and the different approaches to studying it.
• Development Theories: This course deals with concepts and theories of development, which appeared first in the field of economy, then spread to other social sciences.
• Research Seminar on Development Policy: This course investigates a number of theoretical and practical topics related to developmental policies.
• Research Seminar on Developmental Planning: This course deals with a number of theoretical and practical cases pertaining to the concepts and theoretical entries of developmental planning.