社会学研究生课程提供人口统计学，组织，政治经济和社会心理学方面的独特组合，以研究重大的国内和全球问题。研究生有机会将社会理论和研究方法的基础基础课程与选定专业领域（环境与社区，人口统计学以及州和市场）中的更多专业培训相结合。社会学计划在环境和自然资源社会学方面具有特别的实力，并且是美国这些领域的顶级计划之一。在这一领域，该系与自然资源，水利工程以及其他自然科学和社会科学领域的教师合作。还非常重视教师的发展，要求为博士生开设教学研讨会，为学生提供自学课程的机会，并由教师提供强有力的教学指导。
The graduate program in sociology provides a unique combination of demographic, organizational, political-economic, and social-psychological aspects to the study of major domestic and global issues. Graduate students have the opportunity to merge basic foundation coursework in social theory and research methods with more specialized training in selected specialty areas, which are environment and community, demography, and states and markets. The sociology program has a particular strength in environmental and natural resource sociology and is one of the top programs for these areas in the United States. In this area, the department collaborates with faculty in natural resources, water engineering, and other physical and social sciences. There is also a strong emphasis on teacher development, with a required teaching seminar for doctoral students, opportunities for students to teach their own courses, and strong teaching mentoring from faculty.