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Jul 02, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Sociology Major (BA)
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The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology curriculum provides students with meaningful sociological experience. The theory and methods courses are designed to build competence in core areas, while advanced classes help students develop expertise in major fields of contemporary sociology, including race and ethnic relations, work and leisure, aging studies, gender research, crime and juvenile delinquency, urban ethnography, sociology of medicine, health, and mental illness.
Please see the UNLV Department of Sociology web page at www.unlv.edu/sociology for information about department programs, faculty, and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available at www.unlv.edu/degree/ba-sociology.
Learning Outcomes
The sociology graduate will have knowledge of:
- the key concepts, debates, and trends in sociology;
- the major sociological paradigms and theories;
- the variety of methods used in sociological research.
Sociology students will be able to:
- Show evidence of the development of a sociological imagination by applying sociological knowledge in their own projects—whether intellectual, personal, and/or political.
- Exhibit confidence in expressing ideas orally and in writing.
Admission
To be admitted as a sociology major, you need to have a GPA of 2.0. You can declare sociology as a major at any time. If you would like to switch your major to sociology, The Wilson Advising Center can assist you with this.
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Accreditation
For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please visit the following webpage:
- Institution - Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities www.nwccu.org.
Sociology (BA) Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
General Education Requirements - Subtotal: 36-38 Credits
First-Year Seminar - Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 4
Distribution Requirement: Credits: 18-19
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information.
- Humanities and Fine Arts: 9 credits
- Two 3-credit courses in the humanities
- One 3-credit course in fine arts.
- Social Science
- Automatically satisfied by Major requirement
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - 9-10 credits
- Two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must have a lab.
- Analytical Thinking - 3 credits
Multicultural and International
Multicultural, one 3 credit course required
International, one 3 credit course required
These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: www.unlv.edu/provost/multicultural-requirements.
Major Requirements - BA in Sociology - Subtotal: 82-84 Credits
(see note 1 and 2 below)
Degree Requirements: 18
Social Science - Credits: 9
Fine Arts - Credits: 3
Foreign Language/Foreign Culture - Credits: 6
Notes
- Unless otherwise specified, either or serves as a prerequisite for all other sociology courses at the 200-, 300-, or 400- level.
- See the department or the Wilson Advising Center for a list of courses that meet the College of Liberal Arts and the University curriculum requirements.
- SOC 403 is a Milestone Experience course for Sociology B.A.
- SOC 489 is a Culminating Experience course for Sociology B.A.
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