About Us

The Sociology Department seeks to develop critically thinking, engaged Christians who apply the sociological imagination in their scholarship, work and service, to church, community and society.

The sociology program:

• Prepares students to use the ideas and terminology of sociology and other social sciences in the critical evaluation of social research and socio-cultural commentary.
• Encourages the development of a deep personal concern for human need due to a systematic exposure to the pressing social dilemmas that face us daily.
• Develops in our students, and in the larger university community, an understanding of the relevance of sociological insight to the Christian who would be aware, caring, progressive and productive.
• Clarifies the basic tensions between sociology and theology (both actual and imagined), and promotes a sociology that is theologically informed, and a theology that is sociologically informed.
• Fosters a desire to participate with social and religious agencies on a paraprofessional level through direct involvement in various social agencies.
• Develops the ability of our students to formulate sound critical judgment of current social research.
• Prepares students for graduate study or career opportunities in various public and private social service agencies, research, business, or Christian service.