Program: Sociology Minor - University of Southern California

Apr 27, 2025

USC Catalogue 2020-2021

Five courses (20 units) are required to complete the minor in sociology.

All minors are required to take at least two of the core courses in sociology:

Core Courses

SOCI 200gm Introduction to Sociology Units: 4
or
SOCI 270g Sociological Theory Units: 4
SOCI 313L Sociological Research Methods Units: 4
or
SOCI 314Lg Analyzing Social Statistics Units: 4

Note:

The remaining three courses may be chosen from among the upper-division elective courses offered by the department, or as follows:

AMST 357m Latino Social Movements Units: 4
JS 379gm Mixing and Matching: Intermarriage in the 21st Century Units: 4
JS 382 Judaism as an American Religion Units: 4
REL 468 Sociology of Religion Units: 4
SOCI 305m Sociology of Childhood Units: 4
SOCI 335 Society and Population Units: 4
SOCI 340 Organizations: Bureaucracy and Alternatives to Bureaucracy Units: 4
SOCI 342m Race Relations Units: 4
SOCI 345 Social Institutions Units: 4
SOCI 350 Social Exclusion, Social Power and Deviance Units: 4
SOCI 351 Public Policy and Juvenile Justice Units: 4
SOCI 353 Public Policy and Criminal Justice Units: 4
SOCI 355m Immigrants in the United States Units: 4
SOCI 356m Mexican Immigrants in Sociological Perspective Units: 4
SOCI 360m Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power Units: 4
SOCI 362 Global and Transnational Sociology Units: 4
SOCI 369 The Family in a Changing Society Units: 4
SOCI 376m Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities Units: 4
SOCI 402 Human Trafficking Units: 4
SOCI 408 Volunteers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Everyday Politics Units: 4
SOCI 410 The Sociology of Popular Culture Units: 4
SOCI 425 Social Movements: Power, Resistance and Political Dynamics Units: 4
SOCI 429 Immigration, Work and Labor Units: 4
SOCI 430m Work and the Workplace Units: 4
SOCI 432m Racial and Ethnic Relations in a Global Society Units: 4
SOCI 435m Women in Society Units: 4
SOCI 445 Political and Social Theory Units: 4
SOCI 460 Key Issues in Contemporary International Migration Units: 4
SOCI 464 Sociology of Gender and Work Units: 4
SOCI 465 Visual Sociology of the City and Its Residents Units: 4
SOCI 470 Social Change in Low-Income Countries Units: 4
SOCI 475 Medical Sociology Units: 4
SOCI 480 The Sociology of Risk and Disaster Units: 4
SWMS 385m Men and Masculinity Units: 4