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Sociology faculty, graduating seniors and honors students, 2008.

"The American Ruling Class" - Movie

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 from 7:15 - 9:15 p.m. in Lasry Center for Bioscience - Room 237

This "dramatic-documentary-musical" satirically examines our country's most taboo topic: Class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic.

Professor Deborah Merrill And Professor Patricia Ewick

Congratulations to both professors for their newest awards!

Professor Merrill was one of the recipients of the 2008 Outstanding Academic Advisor Award and Professor Ewick was the recipient of the  2008  Outstanding Teacher Award.

Addams-Mills Award 2008

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Erin Burn-Maine and Sarah Milardo were chosen to be the 2008 recipients of this award - Congratulations!

Alpha Kappa Delta

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 4 p.m. in Jefferson Academic Center - Room 400

Come help us celebrate our new honor students and congratulate our 2008 graduates.

Kiri Cook '08 receives Gerontology Studies Program Honors

Cook received a certificate in Gerontology, augmenting her scholarship by completing the Consortium Gerontology Studies Program.
She received both the Sol Boskind and Student Ambassador awards for her outstanding participation in the program.
She was among nine graduates to complete the interdisciplinary program.  She presented at Academic Spree Day her capstone paper on traditional gender roles and older men's vulnerability and states, "Finishing the program, I truly feel that I am prepared to serve the older population."  Cook plans to pursue a Master's in Public Administration through Clark's accelerated B.A./M.A. program.

 



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2008 Academic Spree Day participants with Professor Shelly Tenenbaum
2008 Academic Spree Day participants with Professor Shelly Tenenbaum
2008 Academic Spree Day participants with Professor Shelly Tenenbaum (far right in top photo)

2008 Addams-Mills winners Erin Burns-Maine and Sarah Milardo
2008 Addams-Mills winners Erin Burns-Maine and Sarah Milardo. The award is given every year to one or more graduating sociology majors who exemplify the community service ideals of Jane Addams, founder of community-based social work and a Nobel peace prize laureate, and the intellectual tradition of C. Wright Mills, an outspoken sociologist and critic of American power structures.

Additional Resources
Careers for Sociology Majors (PDF)
Department Handbook (PDF)

You may also be interested in:
Gerontology Certificate Program
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Law and Society
Race and Ethnic Relations
Urban Development and Social Change


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