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Students who complete the Sociology Program will gain facility with:

• Global Awareness: Explain the role of the United States in the global economy and political system.
• Critical Thinking: Compare and contrast the traditions of structural functionalism, social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, and their contemporary offshoots of feminism, post-structuralism, and social construction theory.
• Communication: Articulate in writing and speech an understanding of the basic assumptions of human behavior within the discipline: the effects of culture, social structure, and social interaction on human agency.
• Social Action and Civic Responsibility: Explain how the theoretical underpinnings of sociology explicitly challenge the dominant ideology in American society of individualism and radical subjectivism.