Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Curriculum

Students in the Bachelor of Arts curriculum are required to complete a minimum of 30 credits in sociology.

Curriculum Sheets Course Descriptions Learning Outcomes

Required Courses

Majors must take the following five courses (15 credits):

  • SOC 290 Bridge to the Sociology Major: This course reinforces academic skills and approaches needed in upper-level courses and introduces major and career options (note: students who started prior to Fall 2024 are required to take SOC 100 instead of SOC 290)
  • SOC 395 History of Sociological Thought: This course provides students with some sense of the relationship between sociological discourse and other intellectual developments in both non-Western and Western societies (formerly SOC 401)
  • SOC 301 Sociological Research Methods: This course is a sustained examination of sociological research techniques with an emphasis on critical reasoning and the evaluation of sociological research (formerly SOC 440)
  • SOC 360 Quantitative Methods in Sociology: This course builds on the material learned in SOC 301 and further develops statistics and data analysis skills. (formerly SOC 460)
  • SOC 495 Capstone in Sociology: As a capstone course, the senior seminar focuses on a single topic to give students an in-depth appreciation of how sociologists examine the world and how sociological analysis can shed light on contemporary problems

Sociology Electives

A minimum of five additional courses must be taken from the sociology offerings (15 credits, with at least 6 credits at the 100/200 level and 6 credits at the 300/400 level):

  • SOC 100 Introduction to the Sociological Perspective
  • SOC 200 Topics in Sociology
  • SOC 204 Social Psychology
  • SOC 212 Sociology of the Family
  • SOC 224 Health, Illness, and Medical Care
  • SOC/CCJ 230 Crime and Delinquency
  • SOC/AAF 240 Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOC 242 Sex and Gender
  • SOC 303 Immersion in Juvenile Social and Legal Justice
  • SOC/APG/GWS 308 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Cultures
  • SOC 333 Social Movements and Change
  • SOC/APG 329 Contemporary Mexican Society
  • SOC/AAF 336 Social Inequality
  • SOC/MAF 340 Environmental Sociology
  • SOC 350 Work and Family Life
  • SOC/APG 377 Undergraduate Teaching Experience in Anthro/Soc
  • SOC 400 Advanced Topics in Sociology (formerly SOC 300)
  • SOC 413 Gender Inequality
  • SOC/APG 415 Migration in the Americas
  • SOC 420 Family Violence
  • SOC/AAF 428 Institutional Racism
  • SOC/PSY 430 Intimate Relationships
  • SOC 431 Families and Aging
  • SOC/LRS 432 Work, Employment, and Society
  • SOC/HDF 437 Law and Families in the United States
  • SOC 438 Aging In Society
  • SOC 452 Class and Power
  • SOC/APG/GWS 475G Global Perspectives on Reproduction
  • SOC 477 Field Experience in Sociology
  • SOC 498/499 Independent Study