• The program has nationally recognized faculty members in research and service who are committed to providing students with the highest quality education in their substantive area of focus.
  • Students explore specializations in the program from crime and deviance, demography, and health policy, to aging, work, education, and social organizations. Showcase student’s skills and knowledge learned through a capstone course where they engage in research-oriented study in a small, focused classroom setting.
  • Students will apply statistical approaches to described empirical patterns and test theory and will assess research studies in terms of key choices and decisions.
  • Students will define and compare basic theoretical orientations, how these reflect historical and cultural context, and how they can be applied to social reality and will describe the diversity of American society, and the significance of race, class, gender, and age.