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2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Sociology-Social Welfare Typical Four Year Curriculum (On-Campus)


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TYPICAL FIRST YEAR CURRICULUM
Fall
General Education or Elective Courses (5)
100-level Math
Winter
SOC 204 General Sociology*SSC (5)
General Education or Elective Courses (15)
Spring
ANTH 100 Intro to Anthropology*SSC (5) OR ANTH 203 Intro to Cultural Anthropology*SSC (5)
SOC 205 General Sociology: Problems*SSC (5) 
General Education or Elective Courses (15)
 
TYPICAL SECOND YEAR CURRICULUM
Fall
SOC 315 Foundations of Social Welfare (5) OR 
ANTH Elective (5) 
General Education and Non-Program Elective Courses (10)
Winter
ANTH Elective (5) 
General Education and Non-Program Elective Courses (5)
Spring
ANTH elective (5) 
STAT 243 Elementary Statistics*SMI (4) or 100-level Math
General Education and nonprogram Elective Courses (10)
Note: 100 and 200-level courses in Anthropology and Sociology may be taken whenever offered in the freshman or sophomore years. These courses need not be taken in order, for example, SOC 205 may be taken before or after SOC 204.
 
TYPICAL THIRD YEAR CURRICULUM
Fall
SOC 454 Sociological Theory (Jr or Sr year) (5) (offered occasionally on campus, online in spring)
SOC Upper-Division Elective (5)
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits)
Winter
ANTH 356 OR other Upper-Division
SOC 327 Introduction to Social Research (5)
SOC Upper-Division Elective (5)
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits) 
Spring
SOC Upper-Division Elective(5-10)
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits)
 
TYPICAL FOURTH YEAR CURRICULUM
Fall
SOC 499 Senior Seminar (1) fall only 
SOC 454 Sociological Theory (Jr or Sr year) (5) (offered occasionally on campus, online in spring)
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits)
Winter
SOC 420 Social Welfare Practices (5) OR SOC 455 The Practice of Social Research (3) (taught in online modality on alternate years)
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits)
Spring
SOC 403 Capstone in Applied Sociology 
Additional elective courses to reach 60 upper division institutional requirement 
General Education and Non-Program Electives (credits)

Note: 300 and 400-level courses in Anthropology and Sociology may be taken whenever offered in junior or senior years. A total of 35 upper-division hours are required for the Anthropology and Sociology/Social Welfare concentrations.

Updated August 2024

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