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Sociology Major Requirements

Requirements

  • A grade point average of 2.0 is required in all sociology courses
  • The number of courses increases from eight to nine
  • All majors are required to take SOC 303 and SOC 470
  • SOC 52, our stand alone statistics course, is eliminated
  • Students can take no more than two 100 level courses toward the major (These include SOC 101, 102, ANT 101, ANT 105 and First Year Seminars)
  • Students can take no more than one anthropology (ANT prefix) course
  • Students must take at least two 200 level courses
  • Students must take all three 300 level courses
  • Students must take two 400 level courses, one of which must be of  the 470 designation (Qualitative Seminar)

Prerequisites

  • Soc 101 (Old Soc 11) will continue to be a pre-requisite for all other Sociology courses with the exception of the First Year Seminars and Soc 102 (Old Soc 24)
  • Qualitative Sociology Seminar (Soc 470) will require SOC 101 and at least one 200 level course as pre-requisites as well as Methods of Social Research (Soc 302) as a pre or co-requisite
  • SOC 302 will be a pre-requisite for SOC 303
  • SOC 101 and at least one 200 level course will be prerequisites for SOC 475



SOCIOLOGY COURSES:

New Course #
Course Title
Old Course #

SOC-101

Introduction to Sociology

SOC-11

SOC-102

Social Problems

SOC-24

SOC-211

Introduction to Criminology

SOC-22

SOC-212

Law and Society

SOC-39

SOC-213

Deviance & Social Control

SOC-48

SOC-221

Population, Economy & Society

SOC-35

SOC-222

Population and Environment

SOC-46

SOC-223

Urban Community

SOC-43

SOC-231

Media, Culture, and Society

SOC-30

SOC-232

Sociology of Contemporary Families

SOC-31

SOC-233

Sociology of Religion

SOC-49

SOC-234

Medical Sociology

SOC-44

SOC-241

Social Class in America**

SOC-40

SOC-242

Sociology of Gender

SOC-42

SOC-243

Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC-47

SOC-251

Social Movements/Collective Behavior

SOC-45

SOC-301

Sociological Theory

SOC-50

SOC-302

Methods of Social Research

SOC-51

SOC-303

Analysis of Social Data

SOC-52

SOC-470

Qualitative Sociology Seminar
 
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SOC-475

Sociology Seminar
  
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SOC-501

Independent Study

SOC-80

SOC-503

Individualized Internship in Sociology

SOC-83

SOC-XXX*

Special Topics in Sociology

SOC 95


*The Registrar has not made the final determination with regard to the numbering of the Special Topics courses.

**The course title for Social Stratification has been changed to Social Class in America to better represent the actual content of the class.

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