The department annually recognizes the outstanding graduating student in sociology with the Robert Rankin Award.
Information is available from the undergraduate advisers or the department.
An important measure of the quality of the Sociology Program is the number of awards received by sociology majors. Our students have been recognized locally, regionally, and nationally. Locally, sociology majors have received more than their proportionate share of the Glenn Kendall Public Service Awards and the Lt. Robert Merton Rawlins Awards, the two most prestigious student awards on campus. Regionally and nationally, our students have participated in professional organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, the California Sociological Association, and the Western Anthropology-Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference.