Sociology Major Online Degree Completion Program (BA)
College: College of Social Sciences & Professional Studies
- Conceptual Competency:
- Discerning and identifying different theoretical perspectives.
- Assessing and applying theoretical frameworks to social realities.
- Understanding societies and cultures in their own terms, fostering a global perspective
- Linking the discipline(s) to others.
- Pragmatic Competencies:
- Identifying social problems and framing them conceptually.
- Analyzing the impact of macro-structural factors on personal experience.
- Identifying and breaming down ethnocentrism in research and practice.
- Establishing links between analysis and public policy on both local and global levels.
- Methodological Competencies:
- Generating, manipulating and analyzing social science data.
- Recording and interpreting qualitative evidence of socio-cultural life.
- Recording and interpreting qualitative evidence of socio-cultural life.
- Critically evaluating research findings.
- Independently framing and executing research projects.
- Civic Competencies:
- Promoting civility and civil discourse
- Imparting a sense of agency to communities, locally and beyond, by\\nbecoming skilled in applying research to community and organizational in applying sociological and anthropological perspectives to community and organization problems and Understanding group and organizational process in order to enable active citizenship and effective teamwork.\\n
- To promote an understanding of diverse cultures from a variety of anthropological and sociological perspectives in order to connect local, national, and global communities.
- To demonstrate the importance of integrating teaching, research and service both inside and outside the classroom by creating a teaching/learning environment that provides hands-on research and other experiential opportunities for collaborative faculty, student, and staff interaction in support of excellence. This objective is designed to promote the methodological competencies primarily.
- To prepare students to be successful in their professional, civic, and personal lives, and to empower students by promoting an awareness that they can make a difference.
Requirements for the Sociology Major Online Degree Completion Program
- A minimum of 45 to 60 college credits required to be admitted to this program
- Completion of the UW-Parkside skills requirement in English (MATH 102 Quantitative Reasoning/MATH 104 College Mathematics with Applications/MATH 111 College Algebra I requirement must be met at the time of graduation )
- Foreign Language requirement (must be met at the time of graduation)
- Completion of SOCA 101 Introduction to Sociology (or ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology)
- Completion of the UW-Parkside General Education requirements (students who have fewer than 5 General Education courses may be considered for admission.)
- A minimum 2.25 GPA overall
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| SOCA 101 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
| SOCA 248 | Report Writing for the Social Sciences | 3 |
| SOCA 250 | Statistics for the Social Sciences | 4 |
| SOCA 295 | Social Science Research Methods | 3 |
| SOCA 301 | Sociological Theory | 3 |
| SOCA 495 | Senior Seminar | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Topics in Data Collection and Analysis | ||
| Program Evaluation | ||
| Survey Methods | ||
| Core Courses Subtotal | 22 | |
| Content Elective Courses | ||
| Select fifteen credits of the following: 1 | 15 | |
| Criminology and Deviance | ||
| Sociological Social Psychology | ||
| Deviant Behavior | ||
| Sociology of Mental Illness | ||
| Family and Human Services | ||
| Death and Dying | ||
| Social Gerontology | ||
| Sociology of Mental Illness | ||
| Class, Status and Power | ||
| Public Health | ||
| Race and Ethnic Relations | ||
| Institutional Racism in America | ||
| Class, Status and Power | ||
| Urban Institutions and the Occupational World | ||
| Death and Dying | ||
| Religion and Society | ||
| Institutional Racism in America | ||
| Class, Status and Power | ||
| Urbanism and Urbanization | ||
| Public Health | ||
| Elective Courses 2 | ||
| Additional Sociology Electives | ||
| Select fourteen credits of sociology courses not already taken in core and content electives (200-499) | 14 | |
| General Electives | ||
| Select nine credits of any UW-Parkside courses | 9 | |
| Total Credits | 60 | |
- 1
Complete one course from at least four of the specialization areas listed (12 credits).
Complete one additional course (3 credits).
Each class can only count for one area.
Complete one course to fulfill the diversity requirement (3 credits).
- 2
Nine credits of Additional Sociology Electives and General Electives must be at 300-level or higher.
General University Degree Requirements (Bachelor's Degree)
In addition to individual program requirements, students must also fulfill the following requirements:
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Skills | 7-8 |
| General Education | 36 |
| Foreign Language** | 6-8 |
| Ethnic Diversity | 3 |
| Total | 52-55 |
** Transfer students in sustainable management, and health information management and technology collaborative, online degree-completion programs, the business management online degree-completion program, and the flexible option degree-completion program will be exempt from the university’s foreign language requirement. See appropriate academic section for further information.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Reading and Writing | ||
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Reading | 3 |
| Computational Skills | ||
| Select one of the following: | 4-5 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Elementary Statistics | ||
| College Mathematics with Applications | ||
| College Algebra I | ||
| Total Credits | 7-8 | |
Degree Requirements
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Minimum Total Credits | 120 |
| Upper Level Credits (300 level or above) | 36 |
| Residency | 30 |
Cumulative Degree GPA: 2.0 minimum
| Year 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester | Credits | |
| MATH 102 | Quantitative Reasoning | 4 |
| ENGL 100 | Fundamentals of English | 3 |
| Introductory Language | 4 | |
| COMM 107 | Communication and the Human Condition | 3 |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Reading | 3 |
| COMM 105 or COMM 205 |
Public Speaking for the 21st Century or Oral Interpretation |
3 |
| COMM 108 | Media and Society | 3 |
| Introductory Language | 4 | |
| Credits | 13 | |
| Total Credits | 27 | |