Students taking up sociology as a minor are encouraged to read subjects which complement their interests and open up new intellectual horizons. A minor in sociology requires reading five subjects, including one required subject (HS101 Person and Society) and four Electives.

Students are required to achieve a "C" grade or better in HS101 Person and Society to continue in the Sociology Minor. Students are also required to maintain a GPA of "C for their Sociology subjects to graduate with a Minor in Sociology.

Required subject

HS101 Person and Society (3 AUs)

Electives

HS102 Singapore Society in Transition (3 AUs)
HS103 Social Problems in a Global Context (3 AUs)

HS101 is a pre-requisite for the following 200-level electives (4 AUs' each):

HS201 Classical Social Theory
HS202 Doing Social Research
HS203 Economy and Society
HS204 Culture, Self and Identity
HS205 Organisations and Organisational Change
HS207 Understanding Globalisation
HS208 Social Class and Inequality
HS209 Sociology of the Life Course
HS211 Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations
HS212 Sociology of Language
HS214 The Changing Family
HS215 Education and Society
HS217 Social Psychology
HS218 Media and Society
HS219 Science, Technology and Society
HS220 Population and the Environment
HS221 Sociology of Food
HS222 Population and Society
HS223 Environmental Society
HS226 Deviance Society
HS227 Popular Culture and Consumption

For the following 300-level electives, the pre-requisites are any two 200-level Sociology core courses (HS201, HS202, HS203, HS204 and HS205) unless a waiver is permitted by the Division.

For HS301 and HS302, however, note the more specific pre-requisites.

HS301 Contemporary Social Theory
(Pre-requisite: HS201 and any one of the other 200-level core courses)
HS302 Understanding Social Statistics
(Pre-requisite: HS202 and any one of the other 200-level core courses)
HS304 Cities and Urban Life
HS305 Sociology of Migration
HS306 Sociology of Risk and Crisis
HS307 Religion and Society
HS308 Sociology of Emotions
HS311 Power, Politics and the State
HS312 Gender and Sexuality
HS313 Social Movements
HS314 Health, Medicine and Society
HS315 Development and Social Change
HS316 Societies in Comparative Perspective
HS317 Sociology of Tourism

HS350 Social Change in Southeast Asia
HS351 Contemporary Chinese Societies
HS352 Comparative Asian Societies

Second Major

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) offers Second Major programmes to students enrolled in HSS. Students who qualify will have the option of pursuing a second major within HSS (Chinese, Economics, English Literature, Psychology or Sociology) or a second major in Communication Studies offered by the School of Communication and Information.

The Second Major programme will allow HSS students to take advantage of the synergies between two disciplines – for example, English Literature and Communication Studies; Psychology and Sociology; or Economics and Business. It is an excellent programme for students who can cope with the rigour. Students can go beyond their narrow specialisation and acquire the depth and breadth of a multi-disciplinary education. Graduates with such training are becoming increasingly attractive to employers.

Second Major students will graduate with a BA.Hons degree in their First Major. The Second Major will be shown on the final transcript.

See the main HSS website for details.