Minor in Sociology (15 hours*)

Program Requirements

Complete one course from the following:

Complete at least one course from the following social diversity and inequality courses:

Complete an additional 9 credit hours of course work. Students may select among the electives listed in the major (see item 11 under major requirements).
Note: Students interested in a sociology minor that emphasizes the research and analysis component of the major may select among the following courses as electives: Soc 300, 307, 404, or 405. Students are cautioned that Soc 404 and 405 have several prerequisites, which will require additional courses beyond the 15 hour minimum for a minor. Soc 307 is currently open only to majors; students interested in the sociology minor may add the course with the instructor's consent.

*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.

OFFERED:	F, W, Sp, Su; Honors also.
DESCRIPTION:	Social group influence; social interaction, processes, organization, and change; family, religion, government, population, culture, race relations.

OFFERED:	F, W, Sp, Su; Honors also.
DESCRIPTION:	Individual deviance (violence, insanity, drugs, sex, crime, etc.) and social disorganization (poverty, race and sex discrimination, divorce, overpopulation, etc.). Conditions, causes, solutions.

OFFERED:	F, W, Sp
DESCRIPTION:	Causes and consequences of class, status, and power differences.

OFFERED:	F, W, Sp
DESCRIPTION:	Social psychological and social structural analysis of racial and ethnic relations; prejudice, discrimination, responses, protests, current issues.

OFFERED:	F, W
DESCRIPTION:	Gender in social institutions: family, social hierarchies, economics, education, organizations, religion, and science.

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