Major in Sociology

The field of sociology studies virtually every aspect of human society:the family, gender, race and ethnic relations, aging, education, work, population, and many others.Its principle goal as a discipline is to understand the workings of human society and to explain social behavior.Although sociologists do study what are commonly regarded as social problems—crime, drug addiction, and poverty, for example—they also examine fundamental social processes present in any society:social change, conflict and inequality.Sociology is less concerned with finding practical solutions to social problems than with achieving a fundamental understanding of the social world.

Enrollment in the Major

Students may enroll in the major beginning the day after the end of the current semester's add/drop deadline, thru the 6th Friday after the add/drop deadline New and transfer students may enroll when they matriculate, during orientation, or when they first arrive on campus.