滑铁卢的社会学系提供了一个支持性，友好性和智力上充满活力的环境，可以在其中学习和培养对当今社会所面临的最紧迫问题的社会学分析。通过我们激动人心的文学硕士和博士学位课程，研究生可以通过社会学理论和方法，批判性分析和跨学科研究培训，对社会，政治，经济和文化关系有更深入的了解。我们的课程在法律，犯罪和安全，社会不平等与公共政策，移民与跨国主义，治理研究以及文化和教育等领域提供课程和研究议程。目前，我们拥有19名教职和指导研究生的教职员工，以及来自其他大学以及滑铁卢大学各系和学院的10多位副教授和兼职教授。该硕士
Waterloo's Sociology Department provides a supportive, friendly, and intellectually vibrant environment in which to learn and to cultivate a sociological analysis of the most pressing issues confronting societies today. Through our stimulating MA and PhD programs, graduate students gain a stronger understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural relations through sociological theory and methods, critical analysis, and interdisciplinary research training. Our programs offer courses and research agendas in areas such as law, crime, and security, social inequalities and public policy, migration and transnationalism, governance studies, and culture and education. The University of Waterloo's Department of Sociology and Legal Studies is a research-intensive department that offers diverse academic programs that examine many of the most pressing issues confronting societies today. We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees (MA and PhD) in Sociology (since 1960) and an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in Legal Studies (since 2009). The department is committed to research and teaching excellence by providing an intellectually vibrant setting for sociological and socio-legal scholarship and by fostering a culture of academic and professional mentorship among students and faculty. Our programs emphasize the department's foundational strengths in social theory and research methods while faculty and student scholarship advances our knowledge in the department's thematic areas: Crime, Law, and Security, Knowledge, Education, and Digital Culture, Migration, Borders, and Transnationalism, and Social Inequality and Public Policy. The results of our research and teaching help people to gain a deeper understanding of one's place in society, to understand the complex social, political, economic, and cultural environments within which we live, and to value a diversity of ideas and perspectives.