Sociology
S ociology
The following are required as support courses and do not count towards the major: PSYC 209 Statistics with Computer Applications Credit(s): 3. PSYC 211 Statistics with Computer Applications Lab Credit(s): 1. Concentrations Social Work This concentration is organized as a broad preparation for students who desire to enter the helping professions.
Faculty Chair:
Brad Christerson, Ph.D.
Christerson
Professor:
Yuen
Associate Professor: Assistant Professors:
Chan, Collier-Goubil, Johnson
Concentration-Specific Requirements SOCI 300 Social Work
Mission The Sociology Department seeks to develop critically thinking, engaged Christians, who apply the sociological imagination in their scholarship, work and service, to church, community and society.
Credit(s): 3. Credit(s): 3.
Social Work Internship
SOCI 367
Elective Requirements Choose 15 credits of electives, 12 of which must be upper-division. Criminology This course concentration provides students an opportunity to study crime and related issues from a social scientific perspective, infusing themes of social justice, Christian ethics, and recognizing social inequalities present within the criminal justice system.
Learning Outcomes The sociology program:
Develops the ability of our students to use the ideas and concepts of sociology in the critical evaluation of social research, as well as political, social and cultural commentary. Encourages the development of a deep personal concern for human need due to a systematic exposure to the pressing social dilemmas that face us daily. Develops in our students, and in the larger University community, an understanding of the relevance of sociological insight to the Christian who would be aware, caring, progressive, and productive in church and society.
Concentration-Specific Requirements SOCI 333 Criminology
Credit(s): 3. Credit(s): 3.
Juvenile Delinquency
SOCI 334 SOCI 336
Unequal Justice: Race, Class, Gender and Crime Criminal Justice Internship
Credit(s): 3. Credit(s): 3.
SOCI 365
Elective Requirements Choose 9 credits of upper-division sociology courses. The course listed below is a suggested support course: POSC 410 American Constitutional Law Credit(s): 3. Gender Studies, Minor Minor Requirements The completion of the Gender Studies minor requires 18 credits, six of which must be unique to the minor. Core Requirements ANTH 361 Anthropology of Gender Credit(s): 3. OR SOCI 302 Sociology of Gender Credit(s): 3. And BBST 450 Advanced Study: Systematic Theology Credit(s): 1 - 3. Students are required to take BBST 450 - Theology of Gender. Elective Requirements ANTH 320 Topics in Gender Studies Credit(s): 1 - 3. ANTH 320 may also be taken with the content of Gender and Globalization or Gender and Communication. ANTH 402 Family, Kinship and Gender Credit(s): 3. SOCI 320 Marriage and the Family Credit(s): 3. SOCI 352 Social Inequality: Race, Class and Gender Credit(s): 3.
Encourages and promotes a sociology that is theologically informed, and a theology that is sociologically informed.
Fosters a desire to participate with religious and non- religious organizations on a paraprofessional level through direct involvement in various social agencies. Prepares students for graduate study or career opportunities in various public and private social service agencies, research, business, or Christian service.
Sociology, B.A. Degree Program
A Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology is offered upon completion of the University baccalaureate and major requirements. The sociology major requires the completion of 30 credits, 24 of which must be upper- division. Core Requirements SOCI 220 Sociology Credit(s): 3. SOCI 441 Social Theory Credit(s): 3. SOCI 443 Methods of Sociological Research Credit(s): 3.
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