Concentrations
The Sociology Department offers three optional concentrations for majors:
Students who complete a concentration will be awarded a certificate by the department and have the concentration included on their college transcript. Requirements for the concentrations are described below. A minimum of thirty-one credits is required for each program.
The student must complete the requirements for the major in sociology including 12 hours in the concentration:
Required courses for the major:
- One 100-level sociology course
- Sociology 270 – Sociological Theory
- Sociology 271 – Social Statistics
- Sociology 272 – Research Methods in Sociology
The concentration requires any four (4) of the following courses:
- Sociology 338 – Courts and Criminal Procedures in the Era of Mass Incarceration
- Sociology 339 – Family Violence
- Sociology 340 – Corrections
- Sociology 341 – Criminology
- Sociology 342 – Juvenile Delinquency
- Sociology 343 – Sociology of Law
- Sociology 345 – Advanced Topics Seminar in Criminology
- Sociology 346 – Sociology of Guns
- Sociology 352 – White-collar Crime
- Sociology 364 – Power, Politics, and Protest
- Sociology 384 – Special Topics Seminar in Crime and Criminal Justice
Students must petition the department for substitutions. A minimum of 31 hours is required for each program. Students who complete the requirements for a concentration are awarded a certificate by the department and have the concentration included on their college transcript.
The student must complete the requirements for the major in sociology including 12 hours in the concentration:
- One 100-level sociology course
- Sociology 270 – Sociological Theory
- Sociology 271 – Social Statistics
- Sociology 272 – Research Methods in Sociology
The concentration requires any four (4) of the following courses:
- Sociology 303 – Business and Society
- Sociology 316 – Conflict Management in Organizations
- Sociology 347 – Society, Culture, and Sport
- Sociology 351 – Management and Organizations
- Sociology 352 – White-Collar Crime
- Sociology 362 – Work, Conflict and Change
- Sociology 363 – Global Capitalism
- Sociology 365 – Technology, Culture and Change
- Sociology 366 – The Sociological Analysis of Film
- Sociology 385 – Special Topics Seminar in Business and Society
Students must petition the department for substitutions. A minimum of 31 hours is required for each program. Students who complete the requirements for a concentration are awarded a certificate by the department and have the concentration included on their college transcript.
The student must complete the requirements for the major in sociology including 12 hours in the concentration:
Required courses for the major:
- One 100-level sociology course
- Sociology 270 – Sociological Theory
- Sociology 271 – Social Statistics
- Sociology 272 – Research Methods in Sociology
The concentration requires any four (4) of the following courses:
- Soc 329: Health Inequalities
- Soc 330: Sociology of Mental Health
- Soc 335: Sociology of Health and Illness
- Soc 336: Sociology of Care Work
- Soc 3xx: Sociology of Birth and Death
- Soc 3xx: Environmental Sociology
- Soc 309: Sexuality in Society
- Soc 339: Family Violence
- Soc 383: Special Topics in Health and Medicine
Approved non- sociology courses*
- Anthropology 360 – Anthropology of Global Health
- Anthropology 362 – Medical Anthropology
*Pending approval by core faculty in the concentration or the Chair of the Department, students may have the option of counting a health-related course in another social science department not on the list towards the 12 hours once they have provided a syllabus of the course.
Students must petition the department for substitutions. A minimum of 31 hours is required for each program. Students who complete the requirements for a concentration are awarded a certificate by the department and have the concentration included on their college transcript.