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Below are the departmental learning goals mapped to College-wide goals for student learning.

1. Learning and Knowledge
   
   1. Acquire knowledge about human society through the study of sociology and related disciplines. (Ia, Ib, Ic) 
   2. Understand core sociological concepts including social structure, social inequality, socialization, social norms, social roles, social identities, social institutions, social theory, social research.  (Ib, IIIa) 
   3. Recognize variation in human behavior and social systems across time and place. (Ia, Ib, IIIb) 
2. Intellectual Skills and Practice
   1. Use sociological imagination; understand the intersection of biography and history in one’s life and across diverse circumstances and identities. (Ia, Ib, Ic, IIa, IIIa, IIIb) 
   2. Gather, analyze, integrate, and apply varied forms of social scientific evidence in conversation with sociological theories. (Ib, Ic, IIa, IIb, IIc, IIIc, IVa) 
   3. Communicate effectively in the written word, the spoken word, and the visual image (IIc, IIIc)
   4. Engage in critical and independent thinking (Ib, IIc, IId, IIIb, IIIc) 
3. Values and Transformation
   1. Interrogate one’s own beliefs and values in relation to sociological learning. (IIa, IIe, IIIa, IIIb) 
   2. Apply sociological knowledge and learning to matters of personal and social concern. (Ia, IIIb, IIc, IId, IIe, IIIc, IIId, IVa, IVc) 
   3. Embrace intellectual integrity, humility, and courage (IVb, IVc)
   4. Carry sociology into life at and beyond college. (IIe, IIIc, IIId, IVc, IVd)

The Nancy Beth Rautenberg Award is given to a graduating senior who has combined commitment to the study of sociology with active community involvement.

2026 awardee:

• Stella Evonne Brown: Stella is a Sociology and Gender Studies double major whose reliability, thoroughness, and warmth contributes greatly to our department. Stella leads with diligence, genuine intellectual engagement, and attention to detail. As a Peer Academic Coach, she took extraordinary initiative to see that students in our required statistics course felt supported and prepared—learning new software, meeting with students one-on-one, and running study sessions. She also interviewed people in Detroit about police surveillance as part of a two-year collaborative research project.

Recent recipients:

• 2025: Anna Marta Brooks
• 2024: Lola Ines Hannah Bessis
• 2023: Liana Mirav Heath
• 2022: Sarah Elizabeth Spruill
• 2021: Tucker Boyd
• 2020: Kelly Tran
• 2019: Siyuan Yu
• 2018: Keara Sternberg
• 2017: Rula Issa
• 2016: Tashawn Reagon

The Evertt V. Stonequist Award is given to a graduating senior who has shown outstanding interest and achievement in the study of Sociology.

2026 awardee:

• Brie Schaffer: Brie has distinguished herself as a budding social scientist. As a Sociology and Political Science double major, she has studied questions of local government policy with a rare curiosity, a commitment to rigor, and extraordinary independence. She tackled numerous research projects while at Skidmore, spanning topics from participatory budgeting to police responses to mental health crises. She goes above and beyond the curriculum to develop her sociological skills, including teaching herself advanced regression analysis and the coding software R.

Recent recipients:

• 2025: Walter A. Boyce
• 2024: Mara Elizabeth Little
• 2023: Sophia Malena Stelboum
• 2022: Tova C. Petto
• 2021: Ashley Ramsay
• 2020: Rebecca R. Feldherr
• 2019: Nkosingiphile Mabaso
• 2018: Abigail Gramaglia
• 2017: Cassandra Eddy
• 2016: Mya Obstfeld