2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

556 Course Descriptions/School Psychology684. Professional Internship. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Limited to advanced doctoral students; facultysupervised experience in approved professional employment settings. Applications for Septemberassignments must be approved the previous October. May be repeated up to 9 hours. Prerequisites:Completion of required substantive coursework; approval of department head.685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Directed individual study of selected problems. Prerequisite:Approval of department head.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of school psychology. May berepeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation. Prerequisite: Approvalof department head.College of Science(SCEN)600. Science Graduate Study Abroad. Credit 1 to 18. Approved study abroad student participation; reciprocaleducational exchange programs. May be taken two times for credit. Prerequisite: Admission toapproved program.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of science. May be repeated forcredit. Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor.698. Writing for Publication. (3-0). Credit 3. Writing in academic disciplines and settings. Writing fordifferent audiences and purposes. Style; planning and development of journal articles; grant proposals;correspondence; oral presentations; technical reports. Permission of departmental/college graduateadvisor. Prerequisite: Advanced standing in master’s/doctoral programs.Department of Sociologysociweb.tamu.eduHead: J. A. Sell; Graduate Advisor: W. L. MooreThe Department of Sociology offers graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy. The Doctorof Philosophy degree prepares students for careers of teaching and research in higher education and forcareers of research in the private and public sector.The graduate program is designed to facilitate rapid completion of the PhD within five years offull-time study. If students enter the program with a Bachelor’s Degree, they must take 96 hours tocomplete the PhD Students entering the graduate program with a Masters’ Degree must take 64 hours.In addition, PhD students must pass a written and oral preliminary examination focusing on theircompetence in one major area concentration and one minor area concentration in sociology and writea dissertation.Research and teaching in the department cover all major areas in sociology. The curriculum isconstructed especially to support specialized training in the areas of culture; political and economicsociology; demography, crime, law and deviance; race, class and gender; and social psychology. The departmenthelps students participate actively in these areas of scholarship by providing excellent researchfacilities and access to data, opportunities to collaborate in faculty research projects, and aid in seekinggrants and fellowships to support their own work.Sociology(SOCI)601. Urban Sociology. (3-0). Credit 3. Patterns of organization and the dynamics of change in the contemporarycity; internal and external structure of the city; processes of growth and decline. Prerequisite:SOCI 321 or approval of instructor.603. The Contemporary Family. (3-0). Credit 3. Review and criticism of theories developed for studyof the family; family formation, dynamics, conflicts, power, dissolution; subcultural family forms andresponses to social change. Cross-listed with WGST 603.