Course credit is given for supervised internships. You will have an academic advisor to provide you with information and advice concerning your course needs. Make it a practice to contact your advisor regularly so that you will get to know each other. In addition to helping you with the scheduling of your classes your advisor can help if you are having difficulty in your classes and with other matters, such as applying to graduate schools. Toward the end of each semester you will meet with your advisor to discuss what classes you will be taking the following semester.
All majors complete an original research project during their senior year.
Some of these original research projects will be selected for presentation at one of several undergraduate research conferences conducted each year in the region. Normally, students begin working on the project immediately after completing Soc. 344 or in their junior year. We are proud of our department's student research tradition because it sets our program apart from sociology programs at most other colleges and universities. Our majors regularly present their research at meetings and a number of our majors have had their research published in professional journals as undergraduates.