Program Requirements

To earn their Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, students complete 126 credits, including core, major-sequence and elective requirements. For more information about the courses listed below, please see the St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section of our Undergraduate Bulletin.

Common Core — 27 Credits

DNY1000CDiscover New York3
ENG1000CEnglish Composition3
ENG1100CLiterature in a Global Context3
HIS1000CHistory3
SCI1000CScientific Inquiry3
PHI1000CPhilosophy of the Human Person3
PHI3000CMetaphysics3
SPE1000CSpeech3
THE1000CPerspectives on Christianity3

Distributed Core — 21 Credits

  Foreign Language6
MTH1000CMathematics3
PHI2200CLiterature in a Global Context3
THE2200Theology3
THE1000CPerspectives on Christianity3
  Social Sciences3

St. John's Core — 12 Credits

 Art or Music3
 and 
2200CCore Elective3
2200Core Elective3
1000CPerspectives on Christianity3
3000Core Elective (in three different fields
of major area)
3

Major Sequence — 33 Credits

SOC1000CIntroduction to Sociology3
SOC1170Inequality: Race, Class and Gender3
SOC2610Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences3
SOC3240Sociological theory3
SOC4270Measurement, Evaluation and Research Methods3
SOC4990Sociology Seminar3
SOC Electives15