Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice
Social Work | Criminal Justice

Professor Agnes Caldwell's training in stratification and community organizing means you'll focus on timely issues in the classroom. She ties this knowledge into her background in service learning. If you take her Race & Ethnicity course, you'll blend your classroom work with a sense of action and social justice. You and your classmates will study how children learn racist attitudes and behaviors, then go into local classrooms to teach elementary school students to appreciate diversity by leading discussions based on diversity-themed books.

The department prepares students for graduate school or jobs by providing on-campus speakers and giving students the opportunity to attend off-campus programs. For each of the past several years, Professor Caldwell has taken students to the Midwest Undergraduate Sociology Conference to present research papers. She and her students also regularly attend a state service learning conference. In fact, two students in her Race and Ethnicity course received a Student Community Action Fund service learning grant through the Michigan Campus Compact. If you are interested in graduate school, you should know that 100% of sociology and criminal justice majors in the past ten years were accepted into graduate schools for sociology programs including the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the Univeristy of Maryland, the University of Toledo and Indiana Unviersity Bloomington.

You'll develop and solidify your "sociological imagination" through your coursework in sociological theory and research methods, and by designing and conducting an in-depth senior research project. You'll also have the opportunity to expand your knowledge of sociology outside of the classroom. The sociology department is a driving force behind our annual International Week. Recent themes have included human rights, the environment, and children's rights. Your outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service might also be recognized by membership in Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociology and Criminal Justice Honor Society.