Sociology Undergraduate Research Opportunity

Do you want to work as a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology?

The Sociology Undergraduate Research Opportunity program (SURO) allows students to work as a research assistant in the department to learn more about a specific topic in the discipline while practicing sociological research methods.

Working as an undergraduate research assistant provides useful skills, including:

creating annotated bibliographies,
abstracting (i.e. summarizing) journal articles,
learning how sociology research is conducted,
searching library databases relevant to the research topic,
becoming familiar with data collection and analysis procedures.

Students earn experiential credit for SOC 394 in the major and in the minor if approved as LJSC or SHM. A maximum of 6 credits in the Soc major and minors may come from SOC 394 SURO. SURO may be repeated for up to 8 credits only.

Students may only enroll in one project per term, regardless of the number of credits.

What are the current projects?

How do I register?

Once Enrolled

LJSC, SHM, and SSW Credit

Only projects notated as "LJSC approved," "SSW approved," or "SHM approved" will count toward the respective minors/sub-plans.

These approved projects will not automatically count toward the minor/sub-plan. Once you are enrolled in one of these approved projects for a minor or sub-plan, contact the department advisor at socadvisor@umich.edu with your project section and title to request for a degree audit exception.

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