Online Sociology Degree Programs

Columbia College

• Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, has emerged as a leader in online education in recent years. The college offers numerous online regionally accredited degree options. The college was accredited in 1918 by the North Central Association and has retained accreditation ever since.

  Columbia offers an online bachelor of arts in sociology. The program includes studies in most of the basic aspects of human society and its concerns. Special topics of study include environmental concerns, racism and sex discrimination, among others. Courses included in the sociology curriculum include ethics, contemporary and classical social theory, criminology, social deviance, class, status and power and the sociology of religion.

  Columbia College
  1001 Rogers St.
  Columbia, MO 65216
  573-875-8700
  ccis.edu

University of Colorado Denver

• Part of the University of Colorado system, the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) offers students a number of online degree opportunities including a bachelor of arts in sociology. Like the program at Columbia College, UCD focuses on the basic aspects of sociological study including the processes that govern social systems and the macrostructures of society. Special areas of concern include studies in race, family, gender, social classes and the ongoing process of globalization. Courses offered include historical sociological theory, global issues, statistics, research methods and the sociology of education, among others.

  University of Colorado Denver
  Department of Sociology
  College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  Campus Box 105
  P.O. Box 173364
  Denver, CO 80217
  303-315-2148
  thunder1.cudenver.edu

New Mexico State University

• At the master's degree level, New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, offers one of the few fully accredited online graduate degree programs in sociology. The program offers a master of arts degree in sociology and requires that students entering the program already have obtained the bachelor's degree in sociology. Because of the independent nature of online study, the program does not admit students with degrees in other areas; students must already have a firm grasp of sociological issues and methods. This program delves deeper into sociological research, preparing students to eventually obtain the doctorate. Lasting about two years, the program offers courses in comparative family studies, organizational sociology, world systems and education, globalization, medical sociology, the sociology of religion and studies in social class distinctions.

  UNM Sociology Department
  1915 Roma N.E., Suite 1103
  MSC05 3080
  Albuquerque NM 87131
  505-277-2501
  unm.edu