Take the
right
classes
Take courses to meet
your STATS or MATH
requirement.
Take a couple 300 level
elective courses.
Note: You need at least 12
hours of 300 level electives.
Meet with your advisor in SOCI to
declare your major.
Get good
advice
Meet with your advisors in
the College and in the SOCI
department to plan your
courses.
Note: You are “pre-soc” until you
fulfill your STATS/MATH
requirement.
Attend Sociology Week (Oct or
Nov).
Connect
with peers
Join the SOCI SAC.
Attend a talk on campus.
Get involved in departmental
events.
Join a departmental organization,
like Sociologists for Women in
Society, or the American
Corrections Association.
Attend a talk on campus.
Take your theory and
methods courses (SOCI
301, 302, 377A and
377B)
Take a 300 or 400 level
course.
Take advantage of faculty
office hours—get to know your
faculty!
Meet with your advisor to
make sure you’re on track.
Year 4
Take Foundations of
Sociology (SOCI 300).
Year 3
Take Introduction to
Sociology (SOCI 170)
your first semester
Year 2
Year 1
Sociology Major’s Map to Success
Take a 400 level
“capstone” course.
Note: You need at least 6
hours of 400 level
electives.
Meet with your professors as
you work on your capstone
projects.
Meet with your advisor to make
sure that you meet graduation
requirements.
Help plan Sociology Week
(Oct or Nov).
Go on a Habitat for Humanity
trip (Mar).
Present at Sociology Week (Oct
or Nov).
Attend the annual Sociology
Awards brunch (May).
Attend the annual Sociology
Awards brunch (May).
Submit your best SOCI paper
to the student paper
competition (Feb).
Submit your best SOCI paper to the
student paper competition (Feb).
Expand
your
horizons
Submit your best SOCI paper
to the student paper
competition (Feb).
Look into a double major, minor or
a certificate, like Women’s Studies,
Geographic Information Systems,
or LGBT Studies.
Study abroad, or take a
sociology course on location—
like Florida, or Sierra Leone
Attend a sociology conference,
like MSS .
Attend job talks during faculty
recruitment (Dec).
Submit your best SOCI paper to
the student paper competition
(Feb).
Join Alpha Kappa Delta, the
Sociology honor society.
Attend the job fair (Oct).
Pursue an undergraduate
research experience, like
URAP or USOAR.
Submit a paper to the MSS
conference and present it
(submit in Oct, present in Mar).
Get an internship.
Prepare for
life after
graduation
Think about a double major,
minor, or certificate to make
you more marketable.
Consider learning a
marketable foreign language.
Attend the internship fair (Oct).
Keep your GPA healthy.
Consider graduate school—
study for the GRE and other
entrance exams exams.
Get to know your professors so
you can ask them for letters of
recommendation in the future.
Ask professors for letters of
recommendation (Sept-Oct).
Take entrance exams for
graduate school (Nov-Dec).
Submit applications for graduate
school (Dec).