But be sure to plan ahead so that you have taken required courses in statistics, methods, and theory before you go abroad so that you are ready to take SO 375 Senior Seminar in Sociology in the fall of your senior year. Click here for department policies on study abroad. Requirements are at least 18 credit hours in sociology, including at least two courses at the 300 level. Students minoring in sociology should declare their minor by the end of the junior year. They certainly are.
Internships are particularly useful to explore careers.
Graduating with honors in sociology requires a 3.00 overall grade point average, a 3.50 grade point average in sociology courses, and successful completion of a senior thesis in sociology. Skidmore also has a chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta , an international honorary society dedicated to recognition of outstanding academic achievement in sociology. The department annually presents the Everett V. Stonequist Award and the Nancy Beth Rautenberg Award to outstanding students in sociology. Department majors with exceptional academic records are are also regularly elected to the Periclean Society and Phi Beta Kappa.