SOCIOLOGY MAJOR: For those majoring in sociology, sociology will provide four important benefits. First, we learn more about ourselves and our motivations. Second, it helps us learn how other people affect us, whether it is a parent, friend, spouse, child, or corporation. Third, it helps us understand our culture and how to cope with an often difficult society. Fourth, it helps us become multicultural and global in our understanding and our own relationships. Finally, it can help us learn how to get through each day successfully by developing a sociological imagination which allows us to see the forces affecting us, understand them, and get through them.
SOCIOLOGY MINOR: The Sociology minor can significantly broaden one's knowledge base and increase one's marketability when combined with any other major from another department. Since Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior, it is ideally suited to broaden one's liberal arts preparation thereby supplementing one's chosen career path.
