Degrees Offered
Interdisciplinary Health and Social Justice Certificate
The Sociology program at Austin Peay offers a major and a minor. The major requires the completion of 42 semester hours, which include:
- Requirements
- Introduction to Sociology (1010)
- Social Problems (1040)
- Sociology as a Profession (2700)
- Race and Ethnicity (3050)
- Gender and Sexualities (3080)
- Power, Privilege and Global Inequality (3300)
- Reading and Writing for Sociology (3740)
- Methods of Social Research (3760)
- Social Statistics (3770)
- Sociological Theory (4000)
- Senior Capstone (4910)
- Electives
- 9 credit hours from a selection that includes courses in social psychology, social institutions, deviant behavior, family studies, cultural anthropology, population studies, and sociology service learning
In addition to the major, it is also possible to minor in Sociology, Environmental Studies and Family Studies. These more specialized programs allow students with any major to focus on a curriculum that may tie more directly into their specific vocational interests.
Annual Schedule | |||
Course | Fall | Spring | |
2700 | First Session (A) online | First Session (A) online | |
3050 | Hybrid Full Term | Hybrid Full Term | |
3080 | First Session (A) online | Second Session (B) online | |
3300 | Not offered* | Full term online | |
3740 | Full term online | Full term online | |
3760 | Hybrid full term | Full term online | |
3770 | hybrid full term | Full term online online | |
4000 | Second Session (B) online | Not offered* | |
4910 | Second Session (B) online | Second Session (B) online | |
Note: Soc 1010 & Soc 1040 will be offered online every term | |||
* - offered as a summer course |