About the Sociology Department
The Sociology program at Belmont University gives you an excellent liberal arts foundation for embarking on a wide range of career paths in a variety of professional settings such as International Relations, Marketing Research, Education, City Management, Gerontology, Criminal Justice and Law. Our majors develop research skills that make them marketable in today's technical and data-oriented work environments. Majors also develop the analytical skills and the critical ability to understand how a society's major social arrangements, including race, class, and gender, influence social life at the level of the individual, the organization, and society. Learning to think critically and apply knowledge in support of an argument is extremely important in a fast-changing job market. As a Sociology major you have a competitive advantage in today's information society.
The subjects you can study in Belmont's Sociology department are interesting and relevant to an ever-changing world and marketplace. Our classes include the Sociology of Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice, Race and Ethnicity, the Sociology of Popular Culture, and Medical Sociology (see our complete class listing in the class section of our web page). Many of our students emphasize the study of social problems ranging from environmental problems and ethnic hatred, to poverty, hunger, crime and religious conflict. Others study the mass media, the internet and popular films. What you emphasize is largely up to you!
The Sociology faculty teach and conduct research in a wide variety of areas. While we have divergent interests we share an interest in providing excellent undergraduate teaching. We pride ourselves on giving our majors a powerful learning experience. We offer small classes that emphasize student-teacher interaction and active learning. While the level of academic rigor is high, professors are right there with you, helping you along the way, intellectually and emotionally. We're accessible to students--not just by having plenty of office hours, but by working closely with them as they learn about different social phenomena in our world. The result is that our students are successful-- in their careers, in graduate school, and in life.
