Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 241

Telephone: 408-924-5320

Email: sociology@sjsu.edu; asianamericanstudies@sjsu.edu; womengenderandsexualitystudies@sjsu.edu

Professors

Maria Luisa Alaniz
Tanya Bakhru, Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Natalie Boero
Peter Chua
Hien Duc Do, Coordinator, Asian American Studies Program
Carlos Eduardo Garcia, Chair
Shahin Gerami
Amy Leisenring
Scott Myers-Lipton

Associate Professors

William Armaline
Faustina DuCros
Megan Thiele

Assistant Professors

Jack Caraves
Soma de Bourbon
Amy August
Yvonne Y. Kwan
Joanne Rondilla
Preston O. Rudy
Elizabeth Sweet
Yolanda Wiggins

Overview

The Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences educates students about the social processes that create, maintain, and transform our society. The major uses sociological foundations and applications as well as interdisciplinary approaches to the study of society and in teacher education training. Sociologists analyze how social institutions and social structures such as the economy, politics, education, the family, mass media, and the criminal justice system affect individuals in society. The major provides students with the skills and knowledge to navigate the social, political, economic, historical, and cultural issues that build and sustain effective leadership in our complex global society. The teacher preparation program is designed to ensure that teachers will excel in classrooms that are increasingly heterogeneous in terms of race and ethnicity.

We have two major degree program tracks: Sociology, Sociology with Concentrations (Community Change; Race and Ethnic Studies; Social Interaction; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies); Social Science Teacher Preparation (Multiple and Single Subject). The department offers several minor courses of study: Asian American Studies, Sociology, Sociology of Education, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. These degree programs lead to careers in education, government and public policy, criminal justice, nonprofit organizations, marketing research, human resource management, social work, and other areas.

Programs

Undergraduate Major(s)

Undergraduate Minor(s)

Master(s)

Sociology, MA (Not Accepting Students)

Courses

Asian American Studies

Social Science

Sociology

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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