The UVM Sociology Department includes preeminent sociology scholars and teachers working in the fore of their fields.
Our department is known on campus for strong teaching and a stimulating variety of courses in which we use the sociological perspective to analyze current social issues, including wealth and poverty, crime, deviance, gender, the social organization of the family, race relations, health care, social problems, disabilities, and disasters. Several of our courses offer hands-on field experience with government and social service agencies.
If you are actively concerned about the world you live in and want to do something constructive and useful in it—whether in law, business, education, medicine, urban or rural planning—sociology provides our best means for understanding how "the system" works. Learn more about sociology at UVM.
A Degree With Multiple Applications
A liberal arts degree in sociology can take you anywhere and train you for virtually any kind of work. Many public agencies, nonprofits, governmental bureaus, and community programs hire sociology majors, as do organizations that need people skilled in sociological methods and statistics.
Here in the Real World
UVM sociology majors can participate in sociological research that plays a real-life role. The department offers an advanced service-learning-based internship seminar plus courses that directly involve you in the community, providing research skills and opportunities for hand-on work.
Think, Learn and Socialize
Do you wonder why people behave differently in crowds than in small groups? Or how different you might be if you were born to another family? That’s sociology! If you choose this field, you’ll seek to answer questions like these while developing skills in critical thinking, writing, and research.
