The Department of Sociology & Criminology offers separate majors and minors in each field within a single, integrated department . We are committed to critical, interdisciplinary, and methodologically rigorous study. Our faculty balance global expertise with diverse forms of research and community engagement, bringing theory and empirical work into conversation with contemporary politics, pressing social issues, and movements for collective liberation. Across both majors, students learn to analyze how power operates—through social structures, institutions, and everyday life—and to connect that analysis to struggles for justice. Whether studying inequality, policing, gender and sexuality, labor, migration, or environmental harm, students develop the theoretical and methodological tools to understand and transform the world around us.
