The study of sociology broadens and deepens the understanding of social organization and social change, and provides a background in the perspectives and methods useful in examining the factual basis of assertions about the social world. Sociology courses provide knowledge useful in making more encompassing and better-integrated sense out of the social world around us and out of immediately experienced social relations. Such knowledge is applicable as background understanding in social action or in professions such as law, politics, social planning and social service-professions that must take into account social structure and social relations.
Our curriculum emphasizes two broad areas: the development of world social relations, and the development of United States’ social relations. Both stress broad social change processes. Sociology combines readily with racial, ethnic, area and women’s studies as well as other interdisciplinary social sciences.
With therigorous introduction to sociological concepts, theories and methods that our curriculum provides, our students are well prepared for graduate study, professional work requiring a social science background and careers in, for example, education, law, medicine, politics, public administration, social work, business or management.
