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Dec 21, 2024
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2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Sociology, B.S.
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Degree and Major Requirements
Required Courses
- General Education 41 Credit Hours 1
- Quantitative requirement 3 Credit Hours 2
- Scientific Literacy requirement 3-4 Credit Hours 2
- University electives 32-33 Credit Hours
- Major requirements (listed below) 39 Credit Hours
Footnotes
1 The General Education program contains a set of requirements each student must fulfill. The number of credit hours necessary to fulfill these requirements may vary.
2 In addition to course work taken to fulfill General Education requirement.
Major Requirements
To earn the B.S. degree with a sociology major, students must complete a minimum of 39 credit hours in sociology. Of these credit hours, 18 are required courses; the remaining 21 credit hours are electives chosen from over 30 sociology courses. Students must observe the prerequisite sequencing of required courses as shown in the course descriptions.
Students must earn at least a “C-” in all sociology classes or any course that is substituted for a sociology core course. If a student earns below a “C-” in a course, he/she can re-take the course once in order to meet the “C-” standard.
Footnotes
1 Prerequisite for SOCI 200 : SOCI 110 , SOCI 140 or SOCI 101 .
2 Students can substitute SOCI 231 with MATH 220 , PSYC 210 or COB 191 , if SPSS is used in the course, but must take an additional sociology course to complete the required 39 hours of sociology.
3 Prerequisite for SOCI 300 : SOCI 200 and SOCI 231 (or equivalent), sociology majors only.
4 Prerequisite for SOCI 480 : SOCI 300 .
5 This course fulfills the College of Arts and Letters writing-intensive requirement for the major.
6 Students may fulfill the senior seminar requirement by completing a supervised internship with a substantial writing expectation. Students must secure their own internship placement before enrolling in the internship course. Consult an adviser or the sociology program coordinator for details.
7 If a course other than SOCI 231 is used to meet the statistics requirement, 24 elective credits will be required to reach the 39 credit hour total.
Recommended Schedule for Majors
Transfer students on a two-year course of study should change “Year” in this sequence to “Semester.”
The following is an example of a four-year course of study for a student seeking a degree in sociology:
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