Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

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Graduate Course Offerings

"One of the things that I like best about being a grad student in the sociology department at Penn State is the way that everyone works so well together.  I like that I get to work closely with the faculty and other grad students here, and I am treated as a true colleague.”

Kristen Burnett

Hometown: Austin, TX
Undergraduate Institution: Texas State University - San Marcos (BS Applied Sociology)

Graduate Course Offerings

Advanced Research Design and Data Collection

Applied Mathematical Demography

Attitude Formation and Change

Attribution

Biosocial Perspectives on the Family

Close Relationships

Communities and Crime

Complex Organizations

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Courts and Sentencing

Crime and the Life Course

Crime Justice Organizations and Institutions

Crime, Social Control, and the Legal System

Criminal Careers and Organized Crime

Criminal Justice Organizations and Institutions

Criminal Justice Policy

Demographic Techniques

Demography of the Life Course

Deviant Behavior

Environmental Sociology

Event History Analysis

Family Demography

Family Disorganization

Feminist Family Sociology

Gender and Deviance

Gender, Crime, and Law

Homelessness in America

Interpersonal Violence

Law and Social Science

Law and Society

Law Enforcement

Multilevel Models

Political Sociology

Population and Theory and Policy

Population Redistribution and Development

Race, Crime, and Justice

Research Methods in Crime, Law and Justice

Social Demography

Social Gerontology

Social Networks and Demographic Processes

Social Psychology of Crime and Deviance

Socialization

Sociological Research Methods

Sociology of Aging

Sociology of Education

Sociology of Race

Sociology of the Family

Statistical Methods for Social Research

Statistical Models for Nonexperimental

Stratification and Crime

Stratification and Social Change

The City in Postindustrial Society

Theories of Crime

Theories of Society I and II

Urban Sociology and Ecology

Victimization

Violence

Work and Careers