THE SOCIOLOGY MAJOR
Students who declare sociology as a major must meet the requirements listed below.
Core courses (12 total credit hours)
SOCI 1xxxx Any 100 level sociology course
SOCI 31100 Sociological Theory
SOCI 35300 Research Methods I
SOCI 35400 Research Methods II
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Level and core area requirements (30 total credit hours)
 One course in each of the core areas of sociology inquiry (12 credits): Social Change, Inequality,
Social Institutions and Organizations, and Individuals, Culture, and Society
 At least 3 courses (9 credits) at 200 level in sociology
At least 3 courses (9 credits) at 300 level in sociology (excluding SOCI 31100, SOCI 35300, and SOCI
35400)
 At least 3 courses (9 credits) at 400 level in sociology (must be from SOCI 40100 to SOCI 46900,
excluding SOCI 46300)
NOTE: No more than 3 credits may come from coursework related to being a teaching assistant in SOCI
48000, SOCI 48100, or SOCI 48200 and no more than 3 internship credits from SOCI 48900 to SOCI
49900 may be applied toward the 400 level requirement.
Courses in Core Areas of Sociological Inquiry (choose one from each category)
NOTE: Courses in Core Areas of Sociological Inquiry may be used to fulfill the Level 2, 3, and 4
requirements.
SOCIAL CHANGE
A core question in sociology concerns how societies change and develop over time. Sociologists study
social transformations as they affect and are affected by individuals, institutions, and societies. They
explore relationships among human agency and social structures, or institutions such as colonialism,
capitalism, racism, families, and religions. Key considerations include how change is documented and
assessed, as well as how change is mobilized through activism, community organizing; social movements,
and revolutions; development, and globalization. Courses in this area encourage students to use sociology
as a tool for analyzing, envisioning and engaging in social change.
SOCI 20800 Social Change
SOCI 21600 Alternative Culture
SOCI 22100 Public Sociology
SOCI 24600-09 Selected Topics in Social Change
SOCI 31000 Civil Rights and Social Movements
SOCI 31200 Culture & Society: An International
Field Experience
SOCI 32600 Social Movements
SOCI 33600-09 Selected Topics in Social Change
SOCI 40100 Community Organizing
SOCI 40200 Society and Nature
SOCI 42400 Global Sociology
SOCI 43600-09 Selected Topics in Social Change
SOCI 44600 Tutorial in Social Change
SOCI 47700 Independent Studies in Social Change
SOCI 49700 Internship in Social Change
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INEQUALITY
The understanding of inequality, its origins, and effects on life chances is a core consideration in the
discipline of sociology. Courses in this area examine the processes by which inequalities are created and
maintained, focusing on interpersonal relations, institutionalized practices, and linkages with global
economic, political, and cultural relations. They also address issues of privilege and exploitation and how
these processes are linked to social class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexualities, age, abilities, and other
socially constructed divisions between people.
SOCI 20300 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCI 20600 Urban Sociology
SOCI 20700 Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 21000 Women’s Lives
SOCI 24000-09 Selected Topics in Inequality
SOCI 30200 Sociology of Crime
SOCI 30300 Global Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCI 30700 Social Policy
SOCI 31300 Social Inequality
SOCI 32500 Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualities
SOCI 33700-09 Selected Topics in Inequality
SOCI 37600 Poverty
SOCI 42300 U.S. Working Class
SOCI 42500 Sem: Sociological Feminist Theory
SOCI 43700-09 Selected Topics in Inequality
SOCI 44700 Tutorial in Inequality
SOCI 47800 Independent Studies in Inequality
SOCI 49900 Internship in Inequality
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Institutions and organizations provide social arrangements that shape the operations of political,
economic, health care, and religious systems as well as families and schools. Courses in this area examine
issues of power and ideology that affect institutional and organizational practices, including bureaucratic
structures, organizational cultures, authority systems, as well as the reciprocating relationships between
individuals, organizations and their environments. Students also explore the ways in which institutions
and organizations help shape, and in turn are shaped by, the lives and decisions of their members.
SOCI 21200 Changing Contours of Work
SOCI 21900 Sociology of Religious Institutions
SOCI 22000 Sociology of Aging
SOCI 23500-09 Selected Topics in I&O
SOCI 29200 The Changing Family
SOCI 29300 Introduction to Social Institutions and
Organizations
SOCI 30100 Technology and Society
SOCI 31400 Sociology of Health and Medicine
SOCI 31600 Women and Health
SOCI 31800 Political Sociology
SOCI 32200 Forms of Punishment
SOCI 32700 Work and the Family
SOCI 33500-09 Selected Topics in I&O
SOCI 35100 Sociology of Education
SOCI 41500 Seminar: the Police
SOCI 41700 Law and Society
SOCI 42800 Simulating Social Processes
SOCI 43500-09 Selected Topics in I&O
SOCI 44500 Tutorial in I&O
SOCI 47500 Independent Studies in I&O
SOCI 49500 Internship in I&O
INDIVIDUALS, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
Culture provides a framework for creating meaning and influencing action. Sociological analysis of how
these meanings are constructed and negotiated leads to interesting observations of how “facts” are
created, and the effects that “taken-for-granted” arrangements have on individual beliefs, collective
actions, agency and communal life. Courses in this area illuminate the cultural texture of social life at
both the individual and collective levels.
SOCI 20400 Soc of Symbols and Representation
SOCI 21300 Sociology of Sexualities
SOCI 21400 Definitions of Normality
SOCI 21800 Individual and Society
SOCI 22200 Visual Sociology
SOCI 22800 Men’s Lives
SOCI 23800-09 Selected Topics in IC&S
SOCI 24700 Environmental Sociology
SOCI 31900 Cultural Sociology
SOCI 32400 Sociology of Violence
SOCI 32800 Drugs and Society
SOCI 33800-09 Selected Topics in IC&S
SOCI 43800-09 Selected Topics in IC&S
SOCI 44800 Tutorial in IC&S
SOCI 47900 Independent Studies in IC&S
SOCI 48900 Internship in IC&S
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