Students interested in a career in criminal justice, social work, law, and related fields will find a diverse selection of courses in our department. Our criminology courses cover theories of crime causation and the criminological enterprise, our law and society courses examine how various social forces influence the nature and content of law, and our courses in deviance and social control cover multiple forms of deviance including suicide, mental disorders, and sexual nonconformity.

A degree in sociology can prepare you for a career in social services or social research. Our inequality courses examine the ways in which biological and social categories—such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation—interact and contribute to systematic injustice and inequality between groups.

The Sociology Department offers many courses that may be of interest to students planning on health careers, like pre-med, public health, medical social work, hospital administration, and nursing.

SOC 234 is part of a set of courses we call The MacDonald Medicine Program  Medicine Program FAQ Handout25 . This 10-credit hour experience is offered every other year and combines medical sociology with medical ethics and a two-credit hour fieldwork course that includes observations in the local hospital system. An application for the program can be found here. https://www.furman.edu/academics/sociology/program-overview/medicine-program-application/

The department also offers SOC 262- Social Determinants of Health — a course of interest not only to sociology majors but also to students interested in pursuing careers in medicine and public health.