 Citizenship means more than simply voting. At Cornell, Sociology students are given tools and opportunities to become engaged citizens capable of effecting social change.
This might mean working for Habitat for Humanity, assisting a neighborhood development effort, or interning in Washington, D.C. or on a Native-American reservation. The Cornell Fellows Program and other campus programs provide support for many of these opportunities.
Cornell's One-Course-At-A-Time (OCAAT) schedule opens many possibilities for engagement locally or anywhere in the world, even during the school year. And the Project on Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility provides a clearing-house for activities that allow students to build communities while they learn, as well as bringing speakers and other events to campus.
The department offers a wide range of course offerings, allowing students to focus on areas such as the family, crime, race and ethnic relations, gender, work, complex organizations, and urban communities, to name but a few.
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Senior Sarah Altmann has won Iowa and Midwest Sociological Society awards for her research papers linking juvenile crime to social causes.
"OCAAT allows me to focus intently on my research," she says. Read more |
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