• In the Department of Sociology, they engage the pressing social issues of the time. Sociology teaches students to make connections between individual experiences and broader social processes. They offer courses that explore social inequality, gender, family, deviance, health, terrorism, media, globalization, popular culture, health, crime, and violence.
  • Criminology is a subfield of Sociology and is the study of legal and extra-legal sanctions, including their effects on individuals, the police, corrections, the judiciary, the state, and social and governmental reactions to it.