Sociology, B.A.

Offered by Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health .

Sociology is the study of social relationships among people and the institutions and organizations they use to organize these relationships. There are many subfields within sociology, including medical sociology, aging, population, religion, gender roles, family, work organizations, occupations, crime and delinquency, urban sociology, political sociology and others described in the course listings below.

University Requirements

Completion of Minimum University Requirements for an Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degree .

Minimum 120 credits and minimum GPA of 2.0
Completion of 45 upper-level credits, residence requirement, Writing Intensive requirement, and General Education requirement

Major Requirements

Minimum 32 credits
Minimum grade of ‘C’ all courses applied to the major. P/F courses do not count toward the major.
Minimum 16 credits completed in residence at UMBC

Course Requirements

Core Requirements (14 credits)

Complete the following:

Elective Courses (18 credits)

Complete 18 credits from the following or other approved courses, including a maximum of 6 credits from ANTH courses and excluding SOCY 396 and any other P/F courses:

Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Programs

Qualified students may apply to an accelerated program, which allows them to share courses between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. Students take graduate courses as undergraduate students and later apply those courses to master’s degrees. An undergraduate may apply to participate in an accelerated program even if the desired graduate program is in a department other than the one in which the student is majoring. More information is available from the Graduate School website: https://gradschool.umbc.edu/admissions/nontraditional/accelerated/