SOCIOLOGY MINOR

EXPECTATIONS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE SCHOLAR
The Social Science Department offers coursework in diverse fields of study. However, the Department considers certain goals and objectives common to all majors offered in Social Science.

It is the mission of the department to provide the opportunity for students to grow in an understanding of how their lives and the lives of others have been affected by the historical development of economic, social, political and cultural institutions and gain insight into the underlying assumptions, conflicts and political strategies involved in changing those structures. Students pursuing a degree in the Social Sciences should be able to recognize and analyze the distinctions and relationships between the fields of science, religion, morality, and technology and political use of power. Students are challenged to a critical reflection on the local and global level of the structuring of racial, class and gender inequality and to a deepening concern for justice.

All Social Science majors are expected to gain experience in the formulation of hypotheses and/or models to explore social, economic, political and cultural relationships and change. Further, they should gain skills in using and evaluating diverse research methods, including sampling procedures and statistical analysis; census and survey data analysis; questionnaire development and interviewing; field work and participant observation; as well as the use of written documents, research monographs and secondary sources.

With these common goals in mind, all students with majors in Criminal Justice, Economics, Political Science and Sociology are required to complete the following interdisciplinary sequence of courses.

Social Science Interdisciplinary Sequence (13 credits)

• SS 200 Data Analysis for Social Science
• SS 368 Social Science Research Methods
• SS 369 Social Science Statistics
• SS 484 Senior Social Science Seminar

POLICIES
Students majoring in the Social Science Department must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in courses in their respective major. If a student receives more than one grade below CD in major courses, he/she must repeat one of these courses (or an approved equivalent) and receive a grade of CD or above in order to successfully complete the major.

Courses required for the majors may not be taken Pass/Fail.

Twelve credits of the major must be earned at Edgewood: at least four of those credits must be in your specific discipline.

The Social Science Department’s computer competency requirement is SS 200 (or its equivalent).