Many students of the programme delivered by Saint Peter's University go on to explore career and graduate school opportunities in anthropology, sociology, urban studies and related fields.
Learning goals
Students will:
- Demonstrate an ability to identify the social aspects of human existence as distinguished from the biological and psychological.
- Demonstrate an ability to connect social science insights and research to everyday life.
- Demonstrate an ability to expose errors of ordinary common sense understandings of social life.
- Demonstrate an ability to understand the dynamics of urban change.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify the social foundations of culture.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify social problems and social solutions to them.
Careers
Graduates work in community-based organizations that mentor youth, support women and families, as well as provide job training. Many graduates from both majors also major in Education and become school teachers or administrators.