Sociology
Not available to Sociology majors.
(18 semester hours)

The student who graduates with a minor in Sociology will be able to:

• Describe culture and socialization and recognize social structure and social interaction.
• Examine methods for conducting research in social psychology.
• Discuss applied social psychology topics such as law, business and health.
• Discuss the relationship between human inquiry and the social sciences, focusing on the ethics and methodologies of social research.
• Detail quantifying data, highlighting various coding techniques.
• Discuss the concept of experiments by addressing classical experiments, strengths and weaknesses of the experimental method, and subject selection.
• Describe various types of survey research, how questions are designed and administered, who responds to questionnaires, and how survey research is interpreted.
• Identify and discuss the major social issues that influenced the development of sociological theory.
• Analyze important developments in recent sociological theory, including developments in European sociological theory that influenced the growth of theory in the United States.

SS133 / SOC 111 - Introduction to Sociology
SS212 / PSY 201 - Introduction to Social Psychology
SO410 / SOC 401 - Current Sociological Issues
SS233 / SOC 211 - Introduction to Contemporary Sociology
SO330 / SOC 330 - Research Methods and Statistics
SO303 / SOC 303 - Classical Sociological Theory