Student Learning Goals

I. Knowledge

• Acquire knowledge about human society through the study of sociology and related disciplines
• Understand core sociological concepts such as social structure, social inequality, socialization, social norms, social roles, social identities, social institutions, social theory, social research
• Recognize variation in human behavior and social systems over time and place

II. Intellectual Skills and Practice

• Use sociological imagination; understand the intersection of biography and history
• Gather, analyze, integrate, and apply varied forms of social scientific evidence
• Engage diversity to practice sociology, collaboratively and across social identities

III. Values and Transformation

• Interrogate one’s own values in relation to sociological learning
• Apply sociological knowledge and learning to matters of personal and social concern
• Carry sociology into life at and beyond college