Department of Sociology and Corrections
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM
Name: ___________________________________SS# _______________________________
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City: ______________________________State: ________________ Zip: _______________
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First major: ________________________________GPA in Major: ____________________
Second major: ____________________________________Minor: _____________________
List all Educational Institutions attended: __________________________________________
Please attach copies of all transcripts (unofficial transcripts acceptable)
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Future Plans:
What in sociology/corrections do you plan to do once you have completed your education?
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Describe (in 500 words or less on a separate page) how your past and present activities and future
plans reflect the Mission Statement of the Department of Sociology and Corrections.
Department of Sociology and Corrections Mission Statement
The Sociology Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato is dedicated to
the pursuit, transmission and application of Sociological knowledge. We
acknowledge and celebrate the diversity of sociological approaches that exist in
our department and within the discipline of Sociology generally. We recognize
that there is an essential tension between these approaches that promotes scholarly
inquiry, enriches sociological debate and enlivens social research.
Our commitment to the pursuit of knowledge is an assertion that faculty and
students have a mutual responsibility to engage in scientific inquiry into the
collection, interpretation and evaluation of empirical data in reciprocal relation
with the articulation, criticism and reformulation of sociological theory.
Our commitment to the transmission of knowledge is an assertion that students
should emerge from the program with a solid grounding in sociological
knowledge, in theoretical approaches, in research methodologies, and in logical
perspective which will permit students to analyze and understand social
phenomena across times, places and cultures while minimizing tempocentric,
geocentric and ethnocentric biases. Our commitment to the transmission of
knowledge extends beyond traditional classroom pedagogy and affirms the
responsibility of faculty and students to share their knowledge freely within and
outside the academic community.
Our commitment to the application of knowledge is an assertion that sociological
knowledge is inherently applicable to the activities of social actors. We recognize
that there are competing views on the appropriate relationship between sociology
and action; we thus assert that it is a responsibility of our program to develop and
analyze multiple models for the application of sociological knowledge.
Because we envision sociological practice as an essential competent of
sociological education, we are committed to cooperative research among faculty,
graduate students and courses. We are committed to the principles that
sociological research must be conducted, with respect for the people being studied
and with a consideration of how that research will affect them. We acknowledge
that research, theory development and the application of findings are sometimes
separate activities, but we are dedicated to exploring the connections that exist
among them.