Our mission is to educate students to the sociological and anthropological perspectives through teaching, research and service. This includes teaching students to appreciate, analyze and understand the diversity and complexity of social relationships.
Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
It focuses on the influence of social relationships upon people's attitudes and behavior and on how societies are established and how they change. Sociology students are also concerned with social issues such as poverty, conformity, discrimination, alienation, overpopulation and community. Their common objective is to identify the underlying and recurring patterns of and influences on social behavior. Anthropology is the study of human origins and development. Anthropologists indicate that any explanation of human behavior must take into account all human societies from the smallest tribal groups living in isolated rainforests to ancient and modern civilizations.