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  Undergraduate Catalog :: College of Arts and Sciences :: Sociology
 
  

B.A. Degree Requirements

The bachelor of arts degree in sociology requires a total of 30 credit hours in addition to the general requirements for a degree in the College of Arts and Sciences.

For students selecting the Sociology major, required courses are the following:

                                             Hours
 SOC 101     Sociology: An Introduction          3
 SOC 103     Intro. to Cultural Anthropology     3
 SOC 361     Social Theory                       3 
 SOC 362     Methods of Sociological Research    3
 SOC 363*    Intro. to Statistics                3
 SOC 404WI** Sociology Capstone: Senior Seminar  3 
*MATH 235 is not a substitute for SOC 363.
**All majors are required to take a writing intensive course within the Department of Sociology/Criminal Justice and Criminology (SOC 404WI fulfills this requirement).

Other degree requirements include:

  1. A 2.0 grade-point average in the 30 hours credited toward the major.
  2. A minimum grade of C- in all required courses (SOC 101, 103, 361, 362, 363, and 404WI).
  3. Completion of the general degree requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences with a minimum GPA of 2.0.
  4. No more than three 1-credit courses of Special Topics in Sociology (SOC 300R) may be used to fulfill Sociology elective requirements.

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