Sociology and Anthropology
The Curriculum
The department offers two majors, a BA in Sociology and
a BA in Sociology and Anthropology. Both the majors consist
of forty-four (44) semester hours; that is, twenty-eight
(28) hours of major core courses and sixteen (16) hours of
departmental electives. The Major in Sociology and Anthropology
is awarded to students who complete the requirements of the
anthropology concentration by taking at least sixteen (16)
hours of anthropology electives courses.
The
Curriculum
Requirements
for Minors
Midsemester
Report Guidelines
Sociology/Anthropology Thesis
In the senior year, all Department majors complete a thesis
involving original research that is designed by each student
on a topic of her choice. Some of the most laudable research
projects have been original studies of the following: interracial
adoption and its effects on children; an analysis of data
from the Georgia Department of Corrections on sentencing
patterns and racial bias; a case study of the Rape Crisis
Center at Grady Memorial Hospital; a comparative analysis
of black women's social thought in the United States and
the Caribbean; and an analysis of women's images in twenty
years of advertisements appearing in Ebony magazine.
Sociology/Anthropology
Senior Thesis Instructions
Senior
Internships
Developing Computer and Research Skills
Student majors are required to complete courses that enhance
their computational, computing and research skills. Building
upon the college computer literacy requirement, the course
in Research Methods exposes students to the tools and techniques
of social and cultural research, including the following:
the use of computers in networked environment; the use of
spreadsheets and statistical packages to analyze large and
small datasets; introduction to ethnographic research methods;
survey design and questionnaire construction; library research
including electronic databases; coding and data entry; writing
research reports and proposals for funding.
Professional Ethics for Sociology and Anthropology
http://www.asanet.org/ecoderev.htm
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.htm
