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Sociology, Social Studies Teacher Licensure

Address Global Concerns by Becoming an Educator

Graduates work as:

Apply your sociology background to teaching social studies

Caseworker duties include assessing client needs, listening to concerns, evoking motivation to change, problem-solving, information giving, referrals to community agencies and coordination of care providers.

The primary function of a legal coordinator is to work with lawyers and other members of a law services team to manage the flow of data within the team.

Use your teaching skills and sociology knowledge to create meaningful community outreach programs

Learn To

Develop critical thinking skills

Learn how we socially relate to one another

Collect and analyze social data

Earn a teaching licensure in social studies

Sociology, Social Studies Teacher Licensure Program Overview

Study Human Behavior, Economics and History

Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts.

Earn a Extra Credential

Use your sociology background in the classroom by becoming a social studies educator. The program offers you the opportunity to earn a teaching licensure by completing the Teacher Educator Program.

Choose Your Concentration

General Sociology Students complete the core courses described above and choose an additional 24 hours of sociology courses in such areas as socialization and the life course, population and ecology, social institutions, social inequality and social change, and deviance and social control. In their senior year, general sociology students complete their own semester long research project under the direction of a sociology faculty member. Public Sociology Public Sociology involves taking sociology beyond the boundaries of the university: it is a sociology that "seeks to bring sociology to publics beyond the academy, promoting dialogue about issues that affect the fate of society" (Burawoy 2004). In the Public Sociology Program, students learn how to use sociology to inform real life social issues.

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Sample Courses in Sociology

Sample Courses
SOC 250 Issues in Social Justice
SOC 260 Poverty Studies
SOC 304 Popular Culture
SOC 321 Immigration and U.S. Society
SOC 337 Medical Sociology
SOC 355 Social Movements
SOC 415 Globalization and Development
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