M.A. Program
The Department of Sociology, in the College of Arts and Sciences, offers a terminal master's degree which must be completed in three years.
Admission
For admission to graduate study in sociology, the following, in addition to the minimum Graduate School requirements, are normally required:
- A bachelor's degree or its equivalent, as attested to by transcripts of previous academic work. Official transcripts from international colleges or universities must be evaluated by World Education Services
- Undergraduate statistics course (suggested but not required).
- Undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 or above.
- Satisfactory results on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test. International students, in addition to taking the GRE, must take the TOEFL exam and receive a score of 550 or better to be considered for admission.
- Satisfactory recommendations from former instructors.
- Acceptance by both the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School.
Applications must be submitted to the Department by January 15th of each year. Admissions are for the Fall semester only. There are no Spring Admissions. Applications should be submitted online through the graduate school website: Graduate School
Supplementary materials can be mailed directly to:
Sociology Department - Graduate Program Applications
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356
Writing Samples and CVs are optional. If you choose to send them, they must be MAILED directly to the department. Please DO NOT e-mail them to the Graduate Program Coordinator. DO NOT upload them to Apply Yourself. They will NOT be printed out if uploaded.
If you want to apply to the School of Social Welfare for a Master's Degree in Social Work, please go to http://socialwelfare.stonybrookmedicine.edu/academics/msw
Requirements for the Master's Degree
In addition to the minimum Graduate School requirements, the following are required:
A. Courses
Course requirements for an M.A. in sociology include four designated courses, two in sociological theory and two in statistics, and an additional six elective courses totaling thirty credits. Students must achieve a minimum 3.0 grade point average for 30 credits of graduate level courses.
B. Writing Requirement
Students are required to write a theoretical/empirical research paper as described in the writing option (Section D, Option 2.1, Mandatory Theoretical/Empirical Paper) for the Ph.D. program. This paper will constitute an original piece of social science research evaluated formally by two faculty members.
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356, tel.: +1 (631) 632-7700
