Students using the multimedia design center to work on a group project for SOCI 471 Disaster, Vulnerability, and Development in Fall semester, 2013
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
SOCI 201 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
SOCI 301 Introduction of Sociological Research (4 credits)
SOCI 312 Theories of Society (3 credits)
Required for the Emergency and Environmental Management Concentration
SOCI 325 Disaster & Society (3 credits)
One of the following three
SOCI 324 Issues in Emergency Management (3 credits)
SOCI 470 Environmental Sociology (3 credits)
SOCI 471 Disasters, Vulnerability, and Development (3 credits)
Practicum:
SOCI 426 Emergency and Environmental Management Practicum (3 credits)
This course is required but does not count as part of the thirty-one Sociology credits for the major.
Any five courses in Sociology (15 credits)
No more than 9 Credits at the 200-level. At least 6 credits must be at the 400-level or higher, but cannot be fulfilled with 400-level directed study courses (SOCI 466) or internship courses (SOCI 464, SOCI 410, SOCI 412, SOCI 441, SOCI 442). The following courses are recommended to choose from, although others may be appropriate as well:
SOCI 204 Urban Communities
SOCI 209 Social Problems
SOCI 311 Sociology of Health Care
SOCI 322 Crowds, Cults, and Revolutions
SOCI 323 Sociology of Risk
SOCI 341 Welfare and Society
SOCI 361 Racial Inequality
SOCI 415 Race, Class and Gender
SOCI 418 Race, Gender and Poverty
Fifteen additional credits of related work are required: (15 credits)
Related work will be selected in consultation with the student’s advisor. The following are recommended, but the student is not limited to these:
ANFS 270 Biotechnology: Science & Socio-Economic Issues
ANTH 101 Intro to Social and Cultural Anthropology
COMM 245 Mass Communications and Culture
COMM 256 Principles of Communication Theory
GEOG 203 Intro to Cultural Geography
GEOG 235 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 236 Conservation: Global Issues
GEOG 310 Social Geography
GEOG 320 Water and Society
GEOG449 Environment and Society
GEOL 112 Earth Resources and Public Policy
POSC 220 Intro to Public Policy
POSC 240 Intro to International relations
POSC 311 Intro to Politics and Developing Countries
POSC 350 Politics and the Environment
ELECTIVES
Students must meet the skills and breadth requirements for their degree. After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF: 124
*Students who matriculated before Fall 2014 may follow these requirements or the requirements listed in the catalog for the academic year they entered the University of Delaware.