Mission Statement
Sociology invites students into a scientific and humanistic understanding of social life. Through the collaboration between students, staff, and faculty, we channel our curiosity and creativity to expose the structural forces that shape the social world. We enhance our students’ knowledge and skills of theory and research methods to develop their craft of sociological inquiry. Our department produces scholarly and public work that rejects bigotry, discrimination, and violence.
Learning Outcomes
- Sociological Eye/Perspectives/Theory:
Students acquire a critical lens for understanding human behavior, everyday life, and societies by engaging with key theoretical frameworks and assumptions on which the discipline of sociology is founded. (CWLO #1, #5, and #6) - Social Structure:
Students articulate what sociologists mean by social structure and expose the relationship between structural forces, human action, and social life at the macro, meso, and micro levels of society. (CWLO #1, #5, and #6) - Stratification and Social Inequality:
Students identify how social structures create and reproduce different forms of social inequality in human society through specific processes and apply this knowledge to the critical interpretation of empirical patterns and effects of social inequality. (CWLO #1, #2, #5 and #6) - Social Change:
Students articulate how social change occurs in cultural, social, political, and economic terms and how social structures are reproduced across generations. (CWLO #1, #2, and #6) - Research Methods and Data Literacy:
Students discern and apply disciplinary standards of high-quality data and methods in sociological research. (CWLO #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6) - Post-Bac Aspiration:
Students employ their sociological knowledge and skills to engage with and inform policy debates and promote public understanding in the world around them. (CWLO #2, #3, #4, and #6)
Outcomes approved 5/10/2022; Webpage updated 3/19/2024