The Business and Technology specialization allows students in Sociology to develop a concentration of courses in the sociological analysis of aspects of the worlds of business and technology, that will be noted on their degree transcript.
Open to any student doing either a Four-Year General or an Honours Sociology degree.
Requirements
- Successful completion of four academic course units (eight courses), including:
- at least six courses from:
SOC 232 Technology and Social Change
SOC 234 Symbolic Interaction: The Study of Human Knowing and Acting
SOC 241 Introduction to the Sociology of Work
SOC 243 Occupational Sociology
SOC 312 Sociology of Science
SOC 336 Sociology of Professions
SOC 339 The Knowledge Society and Waterloo Region
SOC 340 Sociology of Organizations
SOC 345 Cyberspace and Social Life
SOC 354 Comparative Health Care Systems
SOC 459 Sociology of Work and Occupations
- and the remaining courses from:
SOC 206 Gender Relations
SOC 207 Sociology of Education
SOC 246 Mass Communication
SOC 250 Contemporary Japanese Society
SOC 253 Demographic Change in Canada
SOC 414 Power, Persuasion, and Management
SOC 417 Liberal Arts Education and Knowledge Society
SOC 421 Quantitative Methods
SOC 498 Directed Studies (in a topic related to business and technology and approved by the Department)