Study Human Behavior, Economics and History
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts.
Earn a Extra Credential
Use your sociology background in the classroom by becoming a social studies educator. The program offers you the opportunity to earn a teaching licensure by completing the Teacher Educator Program.
Choose Your Concentration
General Sociology Students complete the core courses described above and choose an additional 24 hours of sociology courses in such areas as socialization and the life course, population and ecology, social institutions, social inequality and social change, and deviance and social control. In their senior year, general sociology students complete their own semester long research project under the direction of a sociology faculty member. Public Sociology Public Sociology involves taking sociology beyond the boundaries of the university: it is a sociology that "seeks to bring sociology to publics beyond the academy, promoting dialogue about issues that affect the fate of society" (Burawoy 2004). In the Public Sociology Program, students learn how to use sociology to inform real life social issues.
