Pamela Oliver
Sociology Dept.
1180 Observatory Dr. Madison, Wisconsin
53706-1393
608-262-6829

Professor Pamela Oliver

Department of Sociology

Course Information

• Sociology Online Timetable
• Official catalogue description of sociology graduate program
• Official catalogue course descriptions
• Unofficial brief summary of graduate program requirements
• Summary of the content of the required statistics (360, 361, 362) & methods (357, 750) courses in sociology.

Getting Through Graduate School

• Sociology Graduate Program page (Rules & Regulations, and more)
• "Over the Hoops and Through the Hurdles"  Negotiating the official and hidden curriculum in graduate school. 
• List of "things to do" in the first and subsequent years of graduate school which integrates the formal and informal curriculum:
  • PDF file (can be read with Adobe Acrobat)
  • RTF file (can be downloaded & read by most word processors)
• Advice for people starting their first faculty job.  This has evolved from a conversation over lunch, then an email, to our departing students.
• Grad Skool Rulz: Written by Fabio Rojas in a series of blogs. I don't agree with every detail, but overall well worth looking at and thinking about. (the archive is newest to oldest; start at the bottom and work up)

Money

• Tuition & Types of Funding
• Campus Job Postings Possibilities for assistantships in other departments. From this home page, click on "job categories" on the menu bar, then on "Graduate Assistant (Research, Teaching, and Project Assistant Hourly)." I've looked at the listings, and they include both hourly and regular appointments.
• Javits Fellowship Program (for senior undergrads and first year grads)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (for senior undergrads and first year grads)

Campus & Other Resources

• New and Current UW Grad Students Portal with lots of useful links
• Graduate School Admissions Home Page
• Writing Center - Help with writing
• UW Online Directory 
• Academic Misconduct Rules and Procedures Student Page
• Academic Misconduct Instructor Page 
• Madison Community Cooperative: low cost accommodations
• "At Cross Purposes" by Chris M. Golde. About graduate education.