Sociology Major, Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Within the Bachelor of Arts degree, the Department of Sociology and Justice Studies offers a program in sociology, blending career education and the liberal arts. The education goal is not to train students; neither is the goal to educate students solely in sociology. Rather, the goal is to use the discipline as a way to critically synthesize what is learned in a liberal arts program.
The program envisaged here provides a general background that will enable the student to move into a variety of career paths while retaining the opportunity for particular specializations within sociology and thematically related disciplines. Our EWU Sociology alumni have successful careers in a wide variety of fields such as business and human resources, journalism, K-12 education, higher education, institutional research, law, nonprofit, social services, criminal justice, and government. The Sociology B.A. degree also equips students with a strong academic foundation for a wide variety of academic and professional graduate programs.
The Department of Sociology and Justice Studies believes that a university must educate broadly to enrich both career and life. Our sociology curriculum was designed to be flexible so that students can work closely with their major advisor to select courses and participate in applied learning opportunities that will accommodate their academic areas of interest and prepare them for the career paths they choose to pursue. Under the “Experiential Learning in Sociology“ requirements, students can take a course entitled “Doing Sociology” that helps them explore potential careers, and they can participate in an internship, work with a professor one-on-one through directed-study and/or engage in research that culminates in a senior thesis.
World Language Requirement: Two years of a single high school world language or one year of a single college-level world language is required.
| Sociology Core Courses | ||
| SOCI 101 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | 5 |
| SOCI/CRIM 356 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL STATISTICS | 5 |
| SOCI 357 | METHOD FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | 5 |
| or CRIM 330 | SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHOD | |
| SOCI 465 | CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY | 5 |
| Required Subject Areas | ||
| Deviance and Social Control-choose one of the following | 5 | |
| SURVEY OF CRIMINOLOGY | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE | ||
| JUVENILE DELINQUENCY | ||
| CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY | ||
| Race, Gender, and Class-choose two of the following | 10 | |
| SOCIAL PROBLEMS | ||
| RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES | ||
| SOCIAL STRATIFICATION | ||
| ASIAN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ISSUES | ||
| GLOBAL MIGRATION | ||
| Collective Behavior and Social Movements-choose one of the following | 5 | |
| SOCIOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONS | ||
| SOCIAL CHANGE | ||
| Social Institutions-choose one of the following | 5 | |
| SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT | ||
| MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION | ||
| Social Interaction and Identity-choose one of the following | 5 | |
| SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| IDENTITY AND POWER | ||
| Experiential Learning in Sociology-choose two of the following | 10 | |
| DOING SOCIOLOGY | ||
| SENIOR THESIS | ||
| INTERNSHIP | ||
| DIRECTED STUDY | ||
| Required Senior Capstone | ||
| SOCI 490 | SENIOR CAPSTONE: SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE | 5 |
| Total Credits | 65 | |
Plan of Study
The following plan of study is for a student with zero credits. Individual students may have different factors such as: credit through transfer work, Advanced Placement, Running Start, or any other type of college-level coursework that requires an individual plan.
Courses could be offered in different terms, checking the academic schedule is paramount in keeping an individual plan current. Students should connect with an advisor to ensure they are on track to graduate.
All Undergraduate students are required to meet the Undergraduate Degree Requirements.
This major requires the completion of the World Language requirement. Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree must complete two years of a single language in high school or one year of a single language in college.
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| ENGL 101 | 5 | ENGL 201 | 5 | Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 |
| SOCI 101 (Social Science BACR 1) | 5 | MATH 107 | 5 | Humanities & Arts BACR 21 | 5 |
| Humanities & Arts BACR 11 | 5 | Social Science BACR 21 | 5 | Natural Science BACR 11 | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Second Year | |||||
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| SOCI 357 or CRIM 330 | 5 | SOCI 356 or CRIM 356 | 5 | Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 |
| Sociology Subject Area Elective (Diversity - graduation requirement)2 | 5 | Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| Natural Science BACR 21 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Third Year | |||||
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 | Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 | Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 |
| Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Fourth Year | |||||
| Fall Quarter | Credits | Winter Quarter | Credits | Spring Quarter | Credits |
| SOCI 465 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | SOCI 490 (Senior Capstone - graduation requirement) | 5 |
| Sociology Subject Area Elective2 | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 | Elective - minor or general elective | 5 |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Total Credits 180 | |||||
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University Graduation Requirements (UGR) and Breadth Area Course Requirements (BACR) courses may be less than 5 credits and additional credits may be required to reach the required 180 total credits needed to graduate. Students should connect with an advisor to ensure they are on track to graduate.
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Required Subject Areas–choose 40 credits in the following subject areas from the approved lists: Deviance and Social Control, 5 credits; Race, Gender, and Class, 10 credits; Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 5 credits; Social Institutions, 5 credits; Social Interaction and Identity, 5 credits; Experiential Learning in Sociology, 10 credits.
University Competencies and Proficiencies
English
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning
Placement and Clearance
Prior Learning/Sources of Credit AP, CLEP, IB
General Education Requirements (GER)
- Minimum Credits—180 cumulative credit hours
- 60 upper-division credits (300 level or above)
- 45 credits in residence (attendance) at Eastern, with at least 15 upper-division credits in major in residence at Eastern
- Minimum Cumulative GPA ≥2.0
Breadth Area Core Requirements (BACR)
Humanities and Arts
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
University Graduation Requirements (UGR)
Diversity Course List
World Language (for Bachelor of Arts)
Global Studies Course List
Minor or Certificate
Senior Capstone Course List
Application for Graduation (use EagleNET) must be made at least two terms in advance of the term expected to graduate (undergraduate and post-baccalaureate).
Use the Catalog Archives to determine two important catalog years.
- The catalog in effect at the student's first term of current matriculation is used to determine BACR (Breadth Area Core Requirements) and UGR (Undergraduate Graduation Requirements).
- The catalog in effect at the time the student declares a major or minor is used to determine the program requirements.
Students who earn a BA in Sociology from EWU should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between critical inquiry and social justice;
- demonstrate an understanding of core concepts such as social structure, socialization, culture, identity, institutions power, inequality and social justice;
- understand and apply various methodological and theoretical approaches for conducting research.