Sociology & Anthropology
The desired outcome of individuals' studies in Sociology and Anthropology is an increased awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity and social differences; a critical understanding of scholarly attempts to explain social order, social interaction, and social change; awareness of the interconnectedness of Sociology, Anthropology, other disciplinary areas; and the knowledge of how to conduct social-scientific research and inquiry.

Anthropology is characterized by determination to gather data on human-and even infra-human primate-societies of all times and places; the net is cast as widely as possible. The mainstay of our anthropological curriculum, however, is not the prehistoric record but the ethnographic one - the more than 5,000 descriptions, of varying completeness, of diverse human cultures and societies from earliest recorded times to the present.

Sociology has tended to have a more modest scope in time and space, concentrating more on industrial societies and modernization; yet at the theoretical level Sociology has perhaps the greater diversity, offering several contrasting schools of sociological analysis.


Geography
Geography is concerned with the interaction of natural and cultural processes on the earth's surface, the influence of the natural environment on human activities and how humans have altered the natural environment, and the way in which various combinations of physical and cultural phenomena give a unique character to particular places. Geography has spatial emphasis, that is, a concern with arrangements, flows, distance, and direction.


Department Picnic Photos-"End of the Year Celebration"
Red Barn Park, Wednesday, May 7th, 2008