Students’ Learning in Sociology
The sociological imagination is the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of individual and society, of biography and history, of self and world. It enables people to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.
C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (1959: 4-5)
The Department of Sociology seeks to promote the development of the sociological imagination among our students. As we note in our department mission statement:
We are committed—through our scholarship, teaching and service—to fostering imaginations that envision a more just society and which recognize the individual’s contribution to the social production and reproduction of just and unjust practices and institutions.
We have designed our curriculum to promote a sociological way of thinking. Our specific learning goals are identified on the page “Sociology Learning Goals.”
