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Department of Sociology and Criminology

Gary Grizzle, Ph.D., Chair

Faculty: Esposito, Finley, Konczal, Perez, Romano

Major Area Learning Goals

The sociology and criminology curricula are designed to facilitate students’ comprehension through the study, review, reflection, and application of the:

  1. disciplines of sociology and criminology as liberal arts areas of study which contribute a unique, analytical understanding of social reality;
  2. tenets of sociological and criminological theories, including the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of social knowledge;
  3. roles, procedures, assumptions, standards, and ethics of qualitative and quantitative methodologies;
  4. role, relevance, and interrelationships of the following basic sociological concepts: culture, social organization, social stratification, social institutions, social change, and social identity as defined by race-ethnicity, class, age, and gender;
  5. relationships, as defined by various theoretical perspectives, between the individual and society;
  6. diversity of social experience as defined by gender, social class, age, race-ethnicity, and nationality; and
  7. role of sociological-criminological perspectives in developing critical analyses of both local and global social arrangements, with emphasis on issues of social inequality and social justice.