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
Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo is a stimulating and expanding department, and consists of sociologists and socio-legal scholars engaging in innovative teaching styles and research programs. Sociology is the study of social life and the social, economic, and political dynamics and dimensions of social relations and social change. Legal studies is the study of law which is central to everything we do - how we carry on business, how we treat the environment, how we shape our governments and how we deal with other people. The Master of Arts in Social and Legal Studies program is coursework-based and can be completed in one year of full-time study or on a part-time basis for maximum flexibility. You’ll take graduate courses that cover both sociological theory and the sociological implications of the law, preparing you for a career in policy development, law, research analysis, and more.