博士课程包括课程，综合考试的学习准备和写作，论文建议的制作和口头答辩，研究数据的收集和分析，论文的写作以及论文的最终口头答辩。这个过程通常需要至少四年的全日制学习时间。社会学旨在了解人类社会生活的所有历史和当前多样性模式：人们如何生活，思考，感受，相信和行动，将我们自己的社会与他人进行比较。纪念大学的社会学系是加拿大大西洋上最大的系，专门研究社会理论，犯罪学和偏差，环境社会学，社会不平等，性别，性，发育，工作，文化和健康等社会性别学，包括职业健康，政治社会学和海洋社会学。教师研究涉及纽芬兰，拉布拉多，加拿
Sociology aims to understand patterns of human social life in all their historical and current diversity: how people live, think, feel, believe, and act, comparing our own society with others. Memorial University's Department of Sociology is the largest in Atlantic Canada, with specialties in social theory, criminology and deviance, environmental sociology, social inequality, sociology of gender, sexuality, development, work, culture and health, including occupational health, political sociology, and maritime sociology. Faculty research engages with communities and social issues in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and internationally, and is regularly supported through grants from SSHRC, CIHR, and other funding bodies.PhD – The PhD program involves courses, study preparation and writing of a comprehensive exam, production and oral defence of a dissertation proposal, research data collection and analysis, writing of a dissertation and a final oral defence of the dissertation. This process normally takes at least four years of full-time study.PhD: 4 yearsCampus:St. John'sApplication Deadline:February 1 for Fall admission