Business: Real Estate & Property Development

Real Estate and Property Development is an extremely lucrative career that is typically overlooked by many undergraduates contemplating their occupational plans. Texas's robust economy and growing population offer attractive opportunities for large scale developers who wish to provide the state with the housing stock, commercial centers and infrastructure that will be required. The best financial opportunities are in commercial real estate. However, careers in residential real estate are also high-paying and have flexible hours; they are a good choice for students who anticipate needing a less rigid schedule or who may be considering taking time off from work for personal reasons. This is also a career that rewards individuals interested in community service.

The sociology training for real estate emphasizes demography and human ecology. Human ecology is the social scientific study of the relationships between human behavior and space. Knowing where populations are going to expand and contract; and the socioeconomic dynamics of these centers of expansion and contraction are essential to understanding the future potentials of neighborhoods. The remaining training is similar to our training for business marketing: understanding social psychology and the wide variety of groups with whom one will be doing business. Some training in political sociology is useful to deal with the regulatory environment surrounding real estate.

SOCI 328: Environmental Sociology
SOCI 312: Population and Society
SOCI 321: Urban Sociology
SOCI 407: Rural Sociology
SOCI 337: International Migration

See Business: Marketing

SOCI 324: Social Change
SOCI 314: Social Problems
SOCI 445: Sociology of Law
SOCI 404: Sociology of the Community