To continuing students and staff, welcome back for the start of the 2009-2010 academic year. For new students and staff, we look forward to getting to know you better. This past year, we completed our department's Unit Review. After carefully reviewing the excellent teaching and research that takes place in our department, the external review team concluded that "[i]n certain respects [the University of Alberta Sociology department]... now stands as the pre-eminent Sociology Department in the country, and is certainly among the top two or three overall."
We are obviously pleased with this positive assessment, and look forward to working together with you to make our department an even more exciting and rewarding place to work, study, and conduct research.
Harvey Krahn
Professor and Chair, Sociology