Join our progressive and innovative department.
While the social sciences traditionally employ a scientific method to explore social phenomena, our programs break from this narrow definition to give you a modern, unconventional and truly interdisciplinary learning environment.
What makes us unique:
- Choose from nine distinctive undergraduate degree programs and three graduate programs.
- Take courses that reflect a sustained dedication to critical, collaborative approaches to the study of social relations, social structures, social identities and social phenomena.
- Learn from award-winning faculty who ground their analyses of social practices and relations in a range of disciplines and fields of study.
We are strongly oriented, both in teaching and research, toward issues of social justice and sustainability.
Looking for an approved Social Science Gen. Ed.? We are offering the following courses in Fall/Winter 2024-2025:
SOSC 1000 6.0, Introduction to Social Science
SOSC 1000 9.0, Introduction to Social Science
SOSC 1140 9.0, Self, Culture, and Society
SOSC 1142 9.0, Climate Change and Society (NEW!)
SOSC 1340 9.0, Introduction to Business and Society
SOSC 1341 9.0, The Social Economy
SOSC 1350 9.0, Gender and Law
SOSC 1430 9.0, Introduction to International Development Studies
SOSC 1510 6.0, The Future of Work
SOSC 1520 9.0, Markets and Democracy
SOSC 1801 6.0, Health Controversies
Read our Land Acknowledgment which recognizes the unique and enduring relationship of Indigenous people and their traditional territory.
A degree in the Social Sciences helped direct me onto the right path to pursue further education and make meaningful change. Criminology and Human Rights and Equity Studies played a significant role in broadening my understanding of social inequality, as well as teaching me ways to address problems from an intersectional lens. These areas of study further fuelled my passion for social reform and jump started my interests in working towards a career in policy work.
— Jasmeet Lal
Alumna, Criminology & Human Rights and Equity Studies '19
February 6, 2024
Passings: Professor Emerita Lillian Lerman