THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE

STUDY WITH EMINENT SOCIOLOGISTS. Our faculty includes world-renowned experts in social problems, marriage and family, conflict and troubles, and social interaction. They’ve published more than four dozen books on these subjects. Our department has been home to
Social Problems, one of the premier academic journals of sociology.

SOCIOLOGICAL SCOPE. Broaden your horizons with courses in Urban Sociology, Race,
Gender, Medicine; Deviance and Social Control; Race & Family; Social Inequality; Sex &
Gender; Sport & Society; Men, Masculinities, & Health; the Self, Language & Social
Interaction.

THE URBAN LABORATORY.Marquette’s setting in the heart of a big city provides a cultural laboratory of human experience for budding sociologists. Our department offers an interdisciplinary internship program, and many of our courses offer service learning opportunities, where you can link your classroom experience with meaningful community service. Opportunities may include serving at neighborhood organizations while learning about the history and challenges of neighborhoods; tutoring homeless children while examining the roots of poverty in the United States; providing respite care to patients while learning about families in crisis.

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