Sociology Major

All majors must complete a minimum of 35 credits within the department. Required courses include:

• ANT 107 - Cultural Anthropology (3 Cr.)
• SOC 106 - The Sociological Imagination (3 Cr.)
• SOC 210 - Development of Sociological Thought (4 Cr.) *
• SOC 217 - Methods of Social Research (4 Cr.)
• Three 200-level elective sociology courses
• Three 300-level sociology or anthropology courses

Concentration in medical sociology

• ANT 107 - Cultural Anthropology (3 Cr.)
• SOC 106 - The Sociological Imagination (3 Cr.)
• SOC 210 - Development of Sociological Thought (4 Cr.)
• SOC 217 - Methods of Social Research (4 Cr.)
• SOC 265 - Health and Illness (3 Cr.)
• SOC 389 - Seminar: Sociology of Mental Health (4 Cr.)
• Two 200-level elective sociology courses
• Two additional 300-level sociology or anthropology courses

Concentration in social justice

The social justice concentration helps focus student’s coursework around issues of inequality, social justice, and public policy. The social justice concentration draws upon sociology’s long standing interest in normative patterns as well as questions associated with the fields of anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, economics and sociology. It draws on these fields for theoretical understandings of matters such as legal studies, political activism, and community service.