MA in Sociology - Environment, Food, and Communities in Guelph Canada | University of Guelph

Collaborate with exceptional graduate students from diverse national and international backgrounds as you explore societal dynamics with an emphasis on enhancing quality of life. Launched in 1967, our prestigious sociology master's program equips you to apply your expertise, abilities, and principles to analyze and address contemporary social challenges through four specialized tracks: environment, food and communities; work and organization; crime and social control; and identities and social inclusion.
As an MA sociology candidate, you'll develop crucial leadership qualities and career-ready competencies while mastering essential skills for academic and professional success, including subject mastery, discipline-specific and practical abilities, and hands-on learning. Beyond our primary specialization areas, our faculty engage in research, mentorship, and instruction across numerous other compelling academic domains.
The Environment, Food, and Communities specialization examines sociological perspectives on human-environment relationships. This concentration may address environmental resources, food systems, ecological equity, or sustainable community development.

Students in this specialization will utilize proven research methods from the discipline, particularly comparative and historical analysis. The curriculum emphasizes how structural forces, power dynamics, cultural factors, and intersections of class, gender, race, and ethnicity manifest within this field's core subject areas.