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Major Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
Nine sociology courses to include: SOCI 313, SOCI 314, SOCI 370, and may include one lower division course (SOCI 200). The elective upper division sociology courses are grouped into four theme areas: Theme Area I: Deviance, consisting of SOCI 350, SOCI 351 and SOCI 353; Theme Area II: Social Inequality, consisting of SOCI 342, SOCI 355, 356, SOCI 360, SOCI 364, SOCI 366, SOCI 376, SOCI 386, SOCI 435, SOCI 437, SOCI 455; Theme Area III: Social Organization, consisting of AMST 357, SOCI 315, SOCI 331, SOCI 340, SOCI 345, SOCI 375, SOCI 422, SOCI 430, SOCI 445, SOCI 470, SOCI 475; and Theme Area IV: Population and Family Studies, consisting of SOCI 303, SOCI 305, SOCI 320, SOCI 335, SOCI 369, SOCI 385, SOCI 425, SOCI 460. Students must choose their sociology electives from a minimum of two theme areas.Sociology Minor Requirements
The department offers four emphases within the minor in sociology. There are no prerequisites before adding the minor.Students choosing the general emphasis take four upper division sociology courses (16 units) and one course from each of the four theme areas. See Major Requirements for the theme areas.
Those pursuing the health and social welfare emphasis will take four upper division courses, three of which must be from the following cluster:
| SOCI 305 | Sociology of Childhood | 4 |
| SOCI 360 | Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power | 4 |
| SOCI 369 | The Family in a Changing Society | 4 |
| SOCI 475 | Medical Sociology | 4 |
| Plus one other upper division course from any theme area. | ||
Students selecting the industrial relations and human resources emphasis complete three courses from the following cluster:
| SOCI 340 | Organizations: Bureaucracy and Alternatives to Bureaucracy | 4 |
| SOCI 342 | Race Relations | 4 |
| SOCI 360 | Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power | 4 |
| SOCI 430 | Work and the Workplace | 4 |
| Plus one other course from any theme area other than social organization. | ||
Students in the deviant behavior and the law emphasis take four upper division courses, three of which must be from the following cluster:
| SOCI 350 | Deviant Behavior | 4 |
| SOCI 351 | Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency and the Juvenile Justice System | 4 |
| SOCI 353 | Sociology of Crime and of the Criminal Justice System | 4 |
| SOCI 360 | Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power | 4 |
| Plus one other upper division course from any theme area other than deviance. | ||
See an undergraduate advisor for further details on requirements for the minor.
Interdisciplinary Minors
Law and Society.Children and Families in Urban America.
Education in a Pluralistic Society.
Bioethics.
American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano-Latino Studies.