Sociology - Linfield College - McMinnville Campus

Sociology from Linfield College - McMinnville Campus is a Campus Bachelor Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. The SoAn Department emphasizes close student-faculty relations and collaboration in research and social practice. The Linfield Anthropology Museum provides hands-on training in exhibit design, installation, registration, and artifact conservation; the annual Summer Archaeology Field School provides fieldwork in historic and prehistoric archaeology at various sites; other student-faculty collaborative research projects have focused on local Hispanic and migrant communities, homeless and other underserved local populations, disaster research, race/gender and differential academic achievement, non-timber resource utilization in northwest forests, people coping with Celiac Disease, rural electrification in the Andes, and Century Farms and sustainable agriculture. Sociology and Anthropology faculty and students actively participate in Linfield's International Studies, Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies Programs. Departmental faculty and students are especially active with Linfield's strong International Studies program, which includes a dozen semester programs as well as rotating January term and summer courses on site in Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico, New Orleans, Taiwan and elsewhere. Departmental majors frequently present papers based on independent and collaborative research at regional academic conferences as well as an annual on-campus academic poster session. Goals for the Major In successfully completing a major in the Sociology Department, a student will possess: the sociological and anthropological imagination to see the connections between individual lives and the social and cultural forces which impact them, as well as the forces which promote both wide variation and patterns of convergence; a fundamental understanding of the distinctive history, scope, and theoretical contours of their major academic discipline, developing an awareness of the major issues, problems, and questions that have provoked the emergence of the human sciences over the past two centuries; oral and written skills for effective communication of anthropological and sociological knowledge to others, both inside and outside academic contexts; the ability to work both independently and cooperatively in application of sociological and anthropological ideas, ranging from data gathering to service opportunities; and the ability to access, organize, scrutinize, analyze, and produce knowledge about humans as social beings, examining the social groups to which humans belong and from which they derive their social identities. This process includes sufficient mastery of contemporary technology to facilitate movement from the consumption of information to the production of knowledge. View more details on Linfield College - McMinnville Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.