We See Your Future in Sociology.
We see your greatest potential and your motivation to achieve.
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Department of Sociology Programs
Sociology addresses the most challenging issues of our time. This field offers a range of research techniques that can be applied to virtually any issue: street crime and delinquency, corporate downsizing, the alleviation of poverty and homelessness, welfare or education reform, or problems of peace and war.
Program Highlights
- Three academic programs: undergraduate program in Sociology and graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Urban Affairs, ranked among the top 10 programs in the state of Virginia.
- Studies that include: human social relationships and institutions; crime to religion; family to the state; divisions of race and social class; shared beliefs of a common culture; social stability to social change; cyber security to environmental justice.
- Professional Partnerships with local and state police departments and federal agencies, local sheriff offices, faith-based institutions, community agencies, group-home facilities, YMCA, homeless shelters and many others.