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Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Social Psychology Major (SPYJ)


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Social psychology studies the connections between individuals and society. Within sociology, social psychology (also called microsociology), uses micro-level social behaviors to illustrate macro-level social structures and processes. This field covers various topics, such as identity, the self, social attitudes, social influence, culture, deviance, and religious beliefs. Analysis of social stratification and inequality is discussed in each of these topics. Training in sociological social psychology helps students develop an analytical toolkit to aid understanding of human behavior and social interaction, which can be applied to a variety of fields such as marketing, education, counseling, public administration, and human service organizations. It also provides an excellent theoretical foundation for graduate work in sociology. Students cannot major/minor in this program and have a sociology major/minor. Major is 31 hours of coursework.

Electives


At least three courses; one may be taken from supporting courses.

Cognate Courses from outside of the Sociology Department


Baccalaureate-Level Writing Requirement


Students who have chosen the Social Psychology Major will satisfy the Baccalaureate-Level Writing Requirement by successfully completing:

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