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Contact Information:
Phone: 218.299.3547
Location: Old Main
Chair: Nicholas R. Ellig (e-mail)
Departmental Site
Degree
Requirements
Course
Descriptions
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Sociology is one of the most versatile majors offered at Concordia.
By combining courses from our liberal arts curriculum, students
gain skills applicable to many careers, including counseling,
law and criminal justice.
Sociology majors acquire valuable research skills through theoretical
study, which is especially advantageous for students considering
graduate school. For careers in counseling, students may blend
courses in social work, psychology or languages, because the
sociology major draws from many academic areas.
Concordia
Benefits
• Small classes ensure close, mentoring
relationships with experienced faculty.
• Concordia
offers both a major and a minor in sociology.
• Course
requirements are flexible. While a total of eight courses are
needed for a major, only three are required of all majors —
Human Society, Research Methods and Statistics, and Sociological
Theory. And with the freedom to choose the five remaining courses
to complete the major, students may tailor their program to
suit individual interests and abilities. A total of five courses
are required for a minor.
• Students enrolled in sociology
take such courses as Social Problems; Criminal Deviance and
Justice; and Class, Race and Ethnicity. These courses provide
a basic foundation for many careers, including justice administration,
probation and parole, and law enforcement.
Special
Learning Opportunities
• Research is important
to sociological inquiry. Students find individual research projects
are a vital part of sociology coursework.
• Students
may do an independent study program, which may involve both
library and field research, and provide the opportunity to work
closely with a faculty member on a topic of special interest.
Recent topics have included classroom interaction, juvenile
delinquency, family support systems, clergy retirement and global
education.
• Students at Concordia have the opportunity
to apply the tools of the sociology profession through a Cooperative
Education experience, which awards academic credit for on-the-job
work study. It becomes a laboratory to assess aptitude and career
choices. A faculty member and employer jointly supervise the
exceptional work-study experiences.
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