Resources for Preliminary/Comprehensive Exams in Sociology

School	What's There
Arizona State University	nothing
Baylor University, TX	nothing
Boston College	nothing
Boston University	nothing
Bowling Green State University, OH	nothing
Brandeis University, MA	does have syllabi and book lists up for classes going back several years
Brigham Young University, UT	nothing
Brown University, RI	nothing
Case Western Reserve University, OH	nothing
Colorado State University	nothing
Columbia University, NY	has a reading list - theory, urban, orgs, gender/fam, poli soc, culture, strat, histor/compar, methods; also an article list
Cornell University, NY	nothing
CUNY-The Graduate Center	nothing
Duke University, NC	has past prelims and reading lists here for medical soc, compar/hist, strat, econ soc, pop stud, soc psych
Emory University, GA	this page has links to lists in 5 areas (no fam or demog)
Florida International University	nothing
Florida State University	the web page with their reading lists is restricted access, I can't open it
Fordham University, NY	nothing
Georgia Institute of Technology	nothing
Georgia State University	nothing
Harvard University, MA	nothing
Howard University, DC	nothing
Indiana University	nothing
Iowa State University	nothing
Johns Hopkins University, MD	nothing
Kansas State University	nothing
Kent State University, OH	this page has reading lists has reading lists on 9 topics including family
Louisiana State University	nothing
Loyola University Chicago	nothing
Michigan State University	nothing
Mississippi State University	nothing
New School for Social Research, NY	nothing
New York University	nothing
North Carolina State University	this page has past prelim exams in crim, family, 5 other areas
Northeastern University, MA	nothing
Northwestern University, IL	nothing
Ohio State University	nothing
Oklahoma State University	nothing
Pennsylvania State University	nothing
Princeton University, NJ	nothing
Purdue University, IN	nothing
Rutgers University, NJ	this page has syllabi for several years of graduate courses
South Dakota State University	this page has a brief reading list and sample questions in demog, deviance, methods, theory, & social organization
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	this page has syllabi with reading lists for several years of past courses
Stanford University, CA	nothing
SUNY-Albany	nothing
SUNY-Binghamton	nothing
SUNY-Buffalo	nothing
SUNY-Stony Brook	nothing
Syracuse University, NY	nothing
Temple University, PA	nothing
Texas A&M University	nothing
Texas Women's University	this page has past exams and reading lists for theory and methods
Tulane University, LA	has a list of the 51 most influential books, not sorted by topic and not actually aimed at prelims
University of Akron, OH	this page has past exams and reading lists for theory and methods
University of Alabama-Birmingham	nothing
University of Arizona	has reading lists on 13 topics, but not family
University of California-Berkeley	nothing
University of California-Davis	nothing
University of California-Irvine	no reading lists, but the SGSA helpful info page has a few personal accounts of preparing for prelims
University of California-Los Angeles	nothing
University of California-Riverside	nothing
University of California-San Diego	nothing
University of California-San Francisco	nothing
University of California-Santa Barbara	nothing
University of California-Santa Cruz	nothing
University of Central Florida	nothing
University of Chicago	nothing
University of Cincinnati	this page (their student association?) has links to social organization books, a general booklist, and suggestions for annotating articles
University of Colorado-Boulder	this page has links to reading lists for theory and methods, as well as past prelims (scroll down the page)
University of Connecticut	nothing
University of Delaware	nothing
University of Florida	nothing
University of Georgia	according to this page, reading lists will be available online "soon" (6/2007) in crim, culture, race/class/gender, soc psych, work/orgs
University of Hawaii-Manoa	nothing
University of Illinois-Chicago	nothing
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	nothing
University of Iowa	nothing
University of Kansas	nothing
University of Kentucky	nothing
University of Maryland-College Park	reading lists for comparative, demog, devel, gender/fam/work, military soc, soc psych, strat, theory
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	nothing
University of Miami	nothing
University of Michigan	nothing
University of Minnesota	nothing
University of Missouri-Columbia	this page has "core reading lists" for culture/identity, institutions/social movements, control/deviance, theory/knowledge
University of Missouri-Kansas City	nothing
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	nothing
University of Nevada-Las Vegas	nothing
University of New Hampshire	nothing
University of New Mexico	nothing
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	this page has links to pages titled reading lists and exam questions, but they are password protected
University of North Texas	nothing
University of Notre Dame	has a reading list of important books, not aimed at prelims
University of Oklahoma	nothing
University of Oregon	nothing
University of Pennsylvania	nothing
University of Pittsburgh	nothing
University of South Carolina	nothing
University of Southern California	nothing
University of Tennessee-Knoxville	nothing
University of Texas-Austin	this page has past exams and reading lists for 12 areas including crim, demog, family
University of Virginia	nothing
University of Utah	nothing
University of Washington	past exams page is password-protected and only available to current students
University of Wisconsin	the library has a webpage with past prelim exams (often a dozen different from recent years) in 15 areas including family, demog/ecology, deviance, social psych
Utah State University	nothing
Vanderbilt University, TN	nothing
Virginia Tech University	nothing
Washington State University	nothing
Wayne State University, MI	nothing
Western Michigan University	this page has links to pages for the 7 core areas, some of which contain reading/resource lists for comps (crim, soc psych, no family or demog)
Yale University, CT	nothing

see this link for some possible resources

another link

u of oregon also has a set of links that's interesting - not so much prelims as other stuff

another link - at u KY - see last section