BA/BS in Sociology

Sociology at Trinity offers an undergraduate major for students drawn to the collective and social aspects of politics, religion, medicine, race, gender, sexuality, language and social interaction. Many students meet the subject for the first time in college. The field is framed as an inquiry into how society operates, how it shifts and what reasons and results behind what people do. Courses look at groups, organizations, institutions, communities and whole societies, and they deepen understanding of international concerns. The major is arranged to leave room for a spring semester abroad during junior year. Because the department is small, students receive closer attention from professors than larger concentrations usually allow. Students learn to ask how social forces shape individual lives, and they apply that perspective to questions drawn from everyday experience.