• Do you want a quality of mind that can adapt to not just today's job market but also the market of tomorrow?

• Do you enjoy working with creative, bold, passionate, and innovative thinkers and ideas?

• Do you want to understand how social systems work, from the local community up to the global economy?

• Do you want to develop critical thinking skills and analytical skills to be a better informed individual and to experience intellectual growth?

• Are you interested in civic engagement and community well-being?

• Do you want to become a skillful writer, speaker, and researcher?

• Are you interested in questions about social inequality, such as those related to race and racism, ethnicity, gender, sex and sexism, social class, poverty, and human sexuality?

• Would you like to know how modern technologies (such as computers) are changing our history, how we raise our children, and even our environment?

• Do you want to know more about how power, politics, economics, and war play out in our society and on the world stage?

• Would you like to learn about how issues of diversity shape the destinies of African-Americans, Latinos, immigrants, the poor, and other minority groups?

Why Sociology?

By working with the sociology faculty, students are able to:

• Prepare for careers in variety of fields-rather than narrow ones that may be obsolete tomorrow-by being ready to adapt to a changing work environment.

• Study sociology in conjunction with other majors and types of training employers seek. For example, the social sciences gave birth to criminology, so sociology goes well with the study of psychology, deviance, crime, and the police. 

• Learn to study systemic social problems the way a forensics expert studies the particulars of a crime scene.

• Join a vibrant student organization and academic honor society.

• Become involved in research and community engagement projects headed by esteemed teachers and scholars (many of whom are nationally and internationally recognized).

• Join a field that attracts the kinds of students and researchers that our globalized world desperately needs right now.

Careers

Our program will prepare you for a career in a variety of fields, such as:

• National and Regional Business

• Research Institutes and Organizations

• Teaching/Education (grade school through university)

• Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Policing, and Corrections

• Human Resources and Human Relations

• National, State, and Local Government 

• Law school and Graduate School in a variety of fields

• Community Organizing and Activism

• Mediator and/or Arbitrator

• Social Services, Health and Human Services

• Journalism, Researcher

• Management, Marketing, and Public Relations