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。我们的课程提供法律，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的课程和研究议程。<br> <br>我们的博士研究生专门研究以下研究领域，包括对相关理论和方法的掌握：犯罪，法律与安全，知识，教育和数字文化
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. 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.