Sociology, B.A.

Students must complete the Oakland University General Education Requirements, General College of Arts and Sciences requirements , College of Arts and Sciences Exploratory requirement , Major Requirements, and an appropriate number of free elective classes to meet the overall credit requirement for the degree (in most cases a minimum of 124; some degrees may require a greater number).

A student cannot declare a major and a minor in the same discipline (e.g. a BS in Accounting with a minor in Accounting).

Schedule of Classes

Specific offerings for each semester may be found in the Schedule of Classes.

General Education Requirements

In order to graduate on-schedule without taking additional courses, it is highly recommended that students meet with an Undergraduate Academic Adviser concerning the selection of all of their general education courses.

Each candidate for an Oakland University baccalaureate will need to satisfactorily complete approved courses in each of the following areas: Foundations, Explorations, and Integration. For details, refer to the General Education Requirements section of the catalog.

Requirements for the liberal arts major in sociology, B.A. program

To earn a Bachelor of Arts with a major in sociology, students must complete a minimum of 44 credits, 20 of which must be taken at the 3000-4000 level including:

1. Core

SOC 1000 - Introduction to Sociology (4) or SOC 1010 - Introduction to Sociology through Health and Medicine (4)
SOC 2000 - Foundations of Sociological Theory (4)
SOC 2010 - Introduction to Methods of Social Research (4)
SOC 2020 - Social Statistics with Computer Applications (4)

2. Capstone

SOC 4970 - Applying the Sociological Imagination (4)

3. One course from each of the following categories

4. Eight elective credits at the 3000-4000 level, four of which may include anthropology.

Notes

* SOC 4950 can fulfill only one of the four categories: either Interaction Processes, Social Issues, Social Institutions, or Social Inequality and Change. SOC 4950 cannot be repeated for additional credit.

No more than 8 credits counted toward the sociology major may be taken in SOC 3905 , SOC 3930 and SOC 4996 .

Students using this catalog to meet sociology major requirements may also use any course subsequently approved as satisfying requirements in the interaction processes, social issues, social institutions, and social inequality and change categories and published in a later catalog.

Concentrations

Sociology, B.A., Concentration in Linguistics
Anthropology, B.A., Concentration in Linguistics