Courses and Career Guide
Prepare for your chosen career with courses in behavioral science.
As you complete your core required courses, think about what courses can help you build your resume. While selecting elective courses, ask yourself these questions:
- What are my career goals?
- What do I want to do with my college degree?
Interested in working in:
- Human Services
- Emergency Planning or Management
- Cultural or Human Behavior Settings
- Working with families
- Gender Studies
- Economic policy or technology and behavior
- Community Relations
- Criminal Justice
Interested in working in the Human Services, or plan to work in an area involving case management, then consider taking the following courses:
SOC 303 Contemporary Social Problems
SOC 312 Community Health & Social Issues
SOC 464 Special Topics: Working in the Helping Professions
SOC 468 Special Topics: Case Management
SOC 490 Internship in Sociology
Interested in understanding how disaster affect societies, or in developing expertise in Emergency Planning or Emergency Management, then consider taking then following courses:
SOC 350 Special Topics: Sociology of Disaster
SOC 351 Special Topics: Disaster & The Media
SOC 352 Special Topics: Crisis Communications
Interested in more in-depth understanding of culture or human behavior, then consider these courses:
SOC 305 Selected Contemporary Cultures
SOC 325 Myth, Ritual, and Psychotherapy
SOC 401 Cultural Perspectives in Dream Exploration
SOC 405 Social Deviance
Interested in working with families, then consider these courses:
SOC 469 Special Topics: Step-Parenting & Blended Families
SOC 468 Special Topics: Case Management
Interested in gender studies, and learning how one’s gender impacts one’s opportunities, socialization, or how society is influenced by gender, then consider taking the following courses:
SOC 307 Women in Contemporary Society
SOC 330 Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 402 Women in Leadership Roles
Interested in learning how society is affected by economic policies, or how technology has shaped our behavior, then consider taking these courses:
SOC 303 Contemporary Social Problems
SOC 309 Poverty & Welfare
SOC 320 Technology & Society
Interested in working in communities to create change, then consider taking these courses:
SOC 301 Urban Sociology
SOC 303 Contemporary Social Problems
SOC 309 Poverty & Welfare
SOC 312 Community Health & Social Issues
SOC 490 Internship in Sociology
Interested in working with juveniles, probation and parole, or corrections, then consider taking these courses (in addition to taking Criminal Justice courses for electives):
SOC 303 Contemporary Social Problems
SOC 405 Social Deviance
SOC 464 Special Topics: Working in the Helping Professions
SOC 468 Special Topics: Case Management
This information applies to students who enter this degree program during the 2018-2019 Academic Year. If you entered this degree program before the Fall 2018 semester, please refer to the academic catalog for the year you began your degree program.