Sociology Program > Degree Requirements
Degree Requirements
- Requirements for Bachelor of Arts Degree
- Requirements for a Gender Studies Track in Sociology
- Requirements for a Minor in Sociology
- Interdisciplinary Option Requirements
Requirements for Bachelor of Arts Degree
The major in Sociology requires a minimum of 30 credit hours in Sociology including:
- S163 Social Problems
- S250-251 Methods & Statistics 1 & 2
This is a two semester course S250 is offered during the fall semester and S251 is offered during the spring semester. - S295 Sophomore Seminar
This course is offered during the spring semester.
Students are encouraged to enroll in this course the same semester they are enrolled in S251. - P320 Social Psychology
- S441 Topics in Social Theory
This course is offered during the fall semester.
Student must have completed S250-251 & S295 before enrolling in this course. - S470 Senior Seminar
This course is offered during the spring semester
Requirements for a Gender Studies Track in Sociology - 36 hours
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24 hours of required courses
- W100 Gender Studies
- S163 Social Problems
- S250 Methods and Statistics I
- S251 Methods and Statistics II
- S295 Sophomore Seminar
- P320 Social Psychology
- S441 Social Theory
- S470 Senior Seminar - with a gender-related topic for seminar paper
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6 hours of elective courses in Sociology from the following:
- R320 Sexuality and Society
- R326 Masculinity and Society
- S310 Sociology of Women in America
- S321 Variations in Human Sexuality
- S329 Women and Deviance
- S338 Sociology of Sex Roles
- S413 Gender and Society
- S416 The Family
- Or other sociology classes with a gender component approved by adviser
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3 hours of elective courses in Arts and Letters from the following:
- AFRO-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- COAS-X 111 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies
- COAS-X 111 Introduction to Study of Gender
- FINA-A 170 Women Artists/The Visual Arts
- FINA-A 270 Women in the History of Art
- ENG-L 207 Women and Literature
- ENG-L 378 Studies in Women and Literature
- ENG-L 389 Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
- SPCH-S 450 Gender and Communication
- Or other classes with a gender component and adviser's approval
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3 hours of Social Science electives from the following:
- ECON-E 347 Women and the Economy
- POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Problems (when gender is the topic and approved by adviser)
- POLS-Y 324 Women and Politics
- POLS-Y 401 (when gender is the topic and approved by adviser)
- HIST-H 214 Comparative Women's History
- HIST-H 231 The Family in History
- HIST-H 260 History of Women in the United States
- PSY-P 460 Women: A Psychological Perspective
- Or other classes with a gender component and adviser's approval
Requirements for a Minor in Sociology
18 credit hours, including:
- S163 Social Problems
- 15 additional hours of 200-400-level sociology courses
Interdisciplinary Option Requirements
An interdisciplinary option is open to students who wish to integrate the study of sociology with that of another discipline or to apply sociological theory and methods to the data of another discipline.
Students electing this option would take:
- 21 credit hours of sociology,
including
all required courses
- plus 6 credit hours
of advanced work (300 or 400 level) in another
discipline
- Students are then required to apply what they have learned in a directed readings and research course in which they prepare an extensive study and for which they receive an additional 3 credit hours in sociology.
Examples of areas that lend themselves to this approach are:
- the sociology
of formal organizations or the sociology
of work (with business and economics courses)
- the sociology of the arts
(with fine arts or humanities
courses)
- comparative sociology (with anthropology courses)
