The Sociology Major

Welcome to the undergraduate program in sociology at the University of Connecticut-Stamford. Sociology majors seek to understand how the world works and they their potential for shaping that world. While sociologists may study large structures such as institutions, social classes, societies, and world systems, we also explore the localized structures that shape everyday experience, including roles, statuses, and group identities. We encourage students to examine the major organizing principles that contribute to shaping our social lives, including race and ethnicity, class, gender, age, and sexual orientation. We invite students to investigate how people may challenge or preserve their world and their place in it. While we do not provide students with a handbook of easy solutions to social problems, we teach students how to ask the difficult questions, to dig beneath the obvious, and to search for the multiple layers of social meaning.

Sociology majors find their skills sought after in fields as diverse as social and human services (both in for-profit and non-profit organizations), criminal justice agencies, health care administration, marketing, advertising, management, government, public policy, urban planning, teaching, and law.

Current major requirements are Sociology 107 and 24 sociology credits at the 200 level: Research Methods (Soci 205), Society and the Individual (Soci 230), Social Theory (Soci 270), one course from a list of organization and institution courses, one course from a list of inequality, diversity, and change courses, and three 200-level electives.

For additional information, feel free to contact any sociology faculty member.