Graduation with Honors in Sociology
FAQ
- To qualify for “Graduation with Honors in Sociology,” you must meet the College’s requirement for a 3.25 grade-point average for all college work and a 3.5 GPA in Sociology.
- You also must complete 6 hours of course work in SOC 499, culminating in a superior thesis, which will be reviewed by three members of the College faculty, at least two of which shall be from the Sociology department.
- Honors work almost always requires more than one semester from the time it is initially planned until its completion.
- It typically involves a close working relationship with a member of the Sociology faculty expert in the field of the honors student’s thesis. Therefore, very early planning for an honors major is strongly recommended.
Graduate with Honors
Contact a member of the Sociology faculty ideally in the third semester prior to graduation and no later than the beginning of the second semester prior to graduation.
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Honors Sociology Project
In SOC 161, as a final project during the 2020 pandemic, students were asked to write an op-ed considering its possible impacts on social groups both today and in the future, or to write on other areas they felt need improvement in our society.2020 Student SOC 161 Projects
- Qays Abu-Saymeh - An Inflection Point in the Climate Crisis and the Health of China (.pdf)
- Adrian Blanco - COVID-19 Shows More Than Just Lack of Preparation (.pdf)
- Allie Burch - Making Your Voice Count: Incarceration and COVID-19 (.pdf)
- Karis Brown - Institutionalized Discrimination (.pdf)
- Leyton Brunner - Single Payer Healthcare and Coronavirus (.pdf)
- Stephen Fanous - Coronavirus & Racism in the Healthcare Field (.pdf)
- Yukta Yatin Pancholi - Is Gender Equality Really Prevailing in Today’s Society? (.pdf)
- Matthew Sandoval - Present, Past, and Future: Our Rising Issue of Asian Discrimination (.pdf)
- Reagan Smith - Climate Change will Impact Minorities More Greatly After COVID-19 (.pdf)
- Vinay Thiagarajan - COVID-19 and Global Food Security (.pdf)
- Protesting Police in America: A Matter of Life and Death (.pdf)
- COVID-19 and Racial Privilege (.pdf)