Welcome to our department
Welcome to the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law! We are a large and dynamic department with nearly 1,500 undergraduate majors and almost 100 graduate students. We have multiple undergraduate programs offered via in-person and online courses. We have recently developed new minors in Sociology of Social justice & Policy and Environmental Justice & Policy.
Our faculty as well as our graduate students have won numerous teaching awards, including the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty award for teaching and advising; the University award for teaching and advising by faculty members; the Graduate School award for doctoral mentoring; the McKnight Fellows program award for faculty excellence in mentoring; the Service Learning Teacher of the Year; and the Graduate School’s award for excellence in teaching by graduate students. We take great pride in the individualized advising and mentoring we provide to our students, and in the experiential learning opportunities we offer in our courses, internships and via our research.
Our faculty are internationally known for their research in many areas, including families and gender; health, aging, and the life course; environment and resources; race and ethnicity; criminology and criminal justice; and psychology and law. We also have emergent strengths in data science as part of UF’s artificial intelligence initiative, and in social inequalities and justice. Our faculty are involved in interdisciplinary research projects that span nearly of all of the University’s colleges and academic programs, including the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Emerging Pathogens Institute, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, and the Health Science Center.
Our faculty are active researchers who publish scholarly books as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals in our fields, often in collaboration with graduate students. Many of our faculty are also successful in obtaining external funding for their research. Our faculty have conducted research projects with funding by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, the US Agency for International Development, and numerous private foundations.
On our web site, you will find detailed information about our undergraduate and graduate program requirements; biographical information about our faculty, students, and staff; and a description of the various projects and research interests in which our members are involved. We invite you to take a closer look. Come and join our community!