Sociology focuses on why and how societies are established and change.
Sociology's subjects range from institutions like the family and religion, social movements and collective behavior, crime and deviance, divisions such as class, race ethnicity, and gender, as well as topics such as sociology of sport, sociology of work, and the sociology of politics. In addition to offering courses in sociology, the Behavioral Science Department also offers course work in areas such as anthropology, criminal justice, and urban studies. Anthropology is the study of humanity, biologically and culturally, including an emphasis on humans as culture builders. Anthropology emphasizes a non-ethnocentric approach to comparing cultures and traditions enabling students to understand and appreciate cultural diversity. Criminal justice focuses on particular problems of group life, the causal analysis of deviance and crime, societal responses to such including crime control, justice systems, punishment, and corrections.