Sociology, B.A.

Lower Division (13 units):

Upper Division (minimum 31 units):

Core (16 units)

Note:

Total credit for courses numbered 490 through 499 may not exceed twelve units. Completion of at least 51 semester units of college work is required before students will be accepted into upper division courses.

Department Recommendation: Lower division courses should be completed before upper division courses. Taking the courses in sequential order will allow students to gain maximum benefit from the curriculum.

Deviance and Social Control

• SOC 342 - Critical Criminology (3 units)
• SOC 345 - Youth, Policing, and Justice (3 units)
• SOC 354 - Qualitative Methods of Social Research (4 units) *
• SOC 423 - Child Abuse and Prevention (3 units)
• SOC 440 - Sociology of Deviance (3 units)
• SOC 463 - Mental Health and Society (3 units)
• SOC 495 - Internship (1-4 units)

Interaction and Group Relations

• SOC 320 - Sociology of Families (3 units)

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• SOC 325 - Sociology of Gender (3 units)

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• WGSS 325 - Sociology of Gender (3 units)

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• SOC 335 - Social Psychology (3 units) *

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• SOC 340 - The Latino Population in the United States (3 units)

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• CHLS 350 - The Latino Population in the United States (3 units)

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• SOC 341 - Central American and Caribbean Peoples in California (3 units)

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• CHLS 352 - Central American and Caribbean Peoples in California (3 units)

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• SOC 345 - Youth, Policing, and Justice (3 units)
• SOC 346 - Race, Gender and Class (3 units)
• SOC 354 - Qualitative Methods of Social Research (4 units) *
• SOC 358 - The Sociology of Migration and Immigration (3 units)
• SOC 423 - Child Abuse and Prevention (3 units)
• SOC 426 - Sociology of Sexualities (3 units)
• SOC 436 - Racism, Power, and Inequality (3 units)
• SOC 447 - Sociology of Popular Culture (3 units)
• SOC 464 - Aging and Society (3 units)
• SOC 492 - Selected Topics in Interaction and Group Relations (3 units)
• SOC 495 - Internship (1-4 units)
• WGSS 401 - Bodies and Borders: Feminism and Globalization (3 units)

Sociology Health and Medicine

• SOC 350 - International Population Problems (3 units)
• SOC 354 - Qualitative Methods of Social Research (4 units) *
• SOC 423 - Child Abuse and Prevention (3 units)
• SOC 462 - Sociology of Health and Medicine (3 units)
• SOC 463 - Mental Health and Society (3 units)
• SOC 464 - Aging and Society (3 units)
• SOC 466 - AIDS and Society (3 units)
• SOC 493 - Selected Topics in Medical Sociology (3 units)
• SOC 495 - Internship (1-4 units)
• H SC 400 - Principles of Epidemiology (3 units)

Research

Concentration is currently not available.

Social Change and Global Issues

• SOC 346 - Race, Gender and Class (3 units)
• SOC 350 - International Population Problems (3 units)
• SOC 354 - Qualitative Methods of Social Research (4 units) *
• SOC 358 - The Sociology of Migration and Immigration (3 units)
• SOC 410 - Environmental Sociology (3 units)
• SOC 420 - Social Stratification (3 units) *
• SOC 427 - Social Order and Social Change (3 units) *
• SOC 430 - Sociology of Globalization (3 units)
• SOC 449 - Sociology of Human Rights and Social Justice (3 units)
• SOC 494 - Selected Topics in Social Change and Global Issues (3 units)
• SOC 495 - Internship (1-4 units)
• ANTH 307 - Modernization in Global Perspective (3 units)

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• I/ST 317 - Problems in International Social Conflict (3 units)

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• I/ST 318 - Cases in International Social Conflict (3 units)

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• WGSS 401 - Bodies and Borders: Feminism and Globalization (3 units)