Sociology A.B.
A Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Sociology requires the completion of the Elon Core Curriculum as well as the Major Requirements listed below.
Major Requirements
Required courses: 20 sh
Select twenty-four semester hours of electives: 24 sh
SOC courses must be selected at or above the 2000 level.
Up to eight hours may be selected from ANT courses at any level.
All graduating sociology majors are required to complete a senior portfolio of their work. This portfolio will include a compilation of their work across their four years of sociological study at Elon; therefore, students should be mindful of this requirement as they complete work for all their courses and be sure to retain electronic copies of work that they may want to include in their portfolio in their senior year.
Total Credit Hours: 44
Program Outcomes
Students will be proficient in conducting participant- observation research.
Students will have mastered the ability to conduct on- line bibliographic searches.
Students will have mastered the ability to evaluate the quality of on-line bibliographic material and other information obtained through the internet, especially the ability to distinguish scholarly from non-scholarly sources.
Students will be proficient in citing and documenting sources properly.
Students will develop a spirit of civic responsibility.
Students will have mastered the basic classic and contemporary concepts and theories relevant to understanding significant anthropological issues.
Students will have demonstrated the ability to construct, administer, and analyze a survey instrument.
Students will have demonstrated the ability to collect and interpret qualitative data.
Students will show a consciousness of the role that disparate power relations and structural inequalities play in shaping public and professional discourse.
Students will have demonstrated the ability to productively contribute to a group project.
Students will critically engage with texts in narrative, numerical, visual and material form, and be able to articulate their critical analyses of these different forms of text.
Students will develop a critical recognition of the social construction of reality (e.g., truth, gender, race, law, etc.). Truth and knowledge are the products of time, place and circumstance. Students will develop the ability to critique positivist science.
Students will have demonstrated an ability to interact and communicate effectively in multi-cultural settings.
Students will become proficient at using SPSS and ATLAS.
Students will have demonstrated the ability to strategically utilize technology in: formal presentations, research, bibliographic research, data analysis, word processing, and communication, and stimulate critical thought of technology’s role in entertainment versus academic ends.
Students will have demonstrated the ability to prepare a resume or CV that reflects skills taught and learned as part of the departmental curriculum.
Students will be proficient in understanding the importance of ethics in quantitative and qualitative courses.
Students will be able to apply ethics in independent research and capstone courses via IRB proposal procedures.
Students will have demonstrated an understanding of the ethical implications of cultural relativism and ethnocentrism.
Students will have engaged in critical reflections regarding the positive and negative impacts of global and local engagement. Specifically, care should be taken in study abroad courses and service-learning based courses to consider the ethical implications of this type of work.