Sociology is for you if…
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You want to understand complex social problems and work toward a better future
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You care about asking better questions and making sense of complex social problems
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You care about power, inequality, migration, identity, and the hidden forces that shape everyday life
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You care about climate change, technology, and human health
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You care about people and the stories that connect them
For the list of major requirements, click here.
For the sociology minor requirements, click here.
Sociology Major Learning Objectives
1. Develop a sociological imagination; acquire an understanding of the connections between the individual and social institutions, social policy, and social change;
2. Demonstrate an awareness of the variety of human experiences, including but not limited to issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and age, and how these experiences are shaped by structural and cultural forces;
3. Understand the nature of empirical evidence and assess the usefulness of qualitative and quantitative evidence in explaining the causes and consequences of specific social phenomena; become cognizant of the ethical issues of conducting research involving human subjects; create and test hypotheses based on social theories;
4. Conduct, analyze, and describe the results of research using written, oral, and multimedia platforms.
“Sociology gives us tools to understand people’s lives that might not be like ours, to be able to understand how peoples’ worldviews might differ from our own”
