The Department of Sociology stresses diversity and innovation in its approach to research and learning, and seeks to be a center of rigorous, sophisticated, and inspired searches for knowledge of social life. Department faculty members are among the best in the nation in the following areas:
- economy and society;
- ethnomethodology and conversation analysis;
- gender, sexualities, feminist studies;
- global studies;
- race/ethnicity;
- sociology of culture;
- social movements;
- organizations;
- stratification;
- political sociology;
- urban sociology;
- religion and society;
- population and environment;
- networks;
- quantitative and qualitative methods;
- sociological theory
Ph.D. students can add an emphasis in: Black Studies; Demography; Environment and Society; Feminist Studies; Global Studies; Information Technology and Society; Language, Interaction and Social Organization; and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences.
Mailing Address
Department of Sociology,
University of California, Santa Barbara
3005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Building
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430
(USA)
Degrees Offered
MA/PhD
Deadlines
Fall Only:
- December 1, 2023 (by 11:59 PM PST)
Requirements
- Online application (link: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/eapp)
- Statement of Purpose (submitted within the online application)
- Personal History & Diversity Statement (submitted within the online application)
- Résumé or Curriculum Vitae (submitted within the online application)
- Writing Sample of 10-15 pages (submitted within the online application – uploaded as an “Other Document Type”)
- Three Letters of Recommendation (submitted online)
- Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended and must include the grading scale (transcript legend) for each institution (submitted online)
- English Language Exam Scores (if applicable): TOEFL Internet-Based Test (IBT) total score of 80, or TOEFL Paper-Based Test (PBT) total score of 550, or IELTS Overall Band score of 7, or Duolingo English Test total score of 120, or higher
- Final/Official transcripts will be required for all applicants who are admitted and have indicated their intent to enroll at UC Santa Barbara by submitting a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR). UC Santa Barbara reserves the right to require official transcripts at any time during the admissions process, and rescind any offer of admission made if discrepancies between uploaded and official transcript(s) are found.
Black Studies; Demography; Environment and Society; Feminist Studies; Global Studies; Information Technology and Society; Language, Interaction and Social Organization; and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (All Ph.D. only)
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