The Bachelor of Arts in Sociology will provide you with a degree that can launch you into a variety of careers. Not only will you have the opportunity to specialize within a specific area of sociology, but you will also build skills in social science foundation courses. The program is flexible enough to allow you to also complete an interdisciplinary certificate.
Sociology Major, Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Within the Bachelor of Arts degree, the Department of Sociology and Justice Studies offers a program in sociology, blending career education and the liberal arts. The education goal is not to train students; neither is the goal to educate students solely in sociology. Rather, the goal is to use the discipline as a way to critically synthesize what is learned in a liberal arts program. The program envisaged here provides a general background which will enable the student to move into a variety of career paths, while retaining the opportunity for particular specializations within sociology and thematically related disciplines.
The Department of Sociology and Justice Studies believes that a university must educate broadly to enrich both career and life. Accordingly, students in the Sociology Program will complete social science foundation courses, as well as core disciplinary courses. In order to assist students as they move into a variety of career paths, students will complete elective courses selected under the guidance of a Sociology major advisor.
Note: two years of a single high school foreign language or one year of a single foreign language at college-level is required for this major.
| Required Introduction and Social and Behavioral Science Foundation | ||
| SOCI 101 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | 5 |
| SOCI/CRIM 356 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL STATISTICS | 5 |
| or CSBS 320 | STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | |
| SOCI 357 | METHOD FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | 5 |
| or CRIM 330 | SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHOD | |
| SOCI 465 | CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY | 5 |
| Required Disciplinary Core | ||
| SOCI 351 | SOCIAL STRATIFICATION | 5 |
| SOCI 363 | SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE | 5 |
| SOCI 385 | GLOBAL MIGRATION | 5 |
| SOCI 470 | SOCIAL CHANGE | 5 |
| SOCI 481 | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 5 |
| Required Disciplinary Electives–choose any four sociology courses with the direction of a sociology advisor and with approval of the department chair. | 15 | |
| Required Discipline-Based Capstone or Thesis | ||
| SOCI 490 | SENIOR CAPSTONE: SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE | 5 |
| or SOCI 491 | SENIOR THESIS | |
| Total Credits | 65 | |
Pre-requisites: SOCI 101.
This course seeks to realize two complementary objectives: First, to acquaint you with the origins of sociological inquiry and the variety of styles and logical systems which shape such research; secondly, to demonstrate the nature of the research techniques which follow.
Pre-requisites: SOCI 101.
Examines the conditions under which deviance as a social reality emerges, develops, and changes over time. Typical concerns are the process of social typing; official responses to deviances; managing the deviant identity; and the role of bureaucracies and social class in promoting deviance as a political construction.
Pre-requisites: SOCI 101.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course introduces students to critical debates in the study of migration in social sciences and related disciplines. Furthermore, the course investigates the causes and consequences of modern population mobility from a comparative perspective by posing a core question: what are the socio-cultural, economic, and political outcomes of migration across sending and receiving countries?
Pre-requisites: SOCI 101.
An analytic approach to the social-psychological consequences of social structure. Focal concerns may include alienation, anti-psychiatry, personality and social class, role behavior, and socialization.