Fall term, my freshman year I had my first
Anthropology 100 course, and I just remember
the first day of class being like this is so cool,
have to keep studying this. So, they hooked
me right away
We have 3 majors, which is exciting.
our students do Sociology, Sociology with
concentration social welfare, or
Anthropology and we offer all three within the department. Our majors take
courses in all three, so you would
declare a sociology major in Sociology
with concentration on social welfare or an
anthropology major, focus on that as your core
major and then take supporting courses
throughout. My first major that I wanted to go into was
Psychology and then I took a Psychology
course and I found that it wasn't for me and so then I
started to look at my other options and
then I came upon the Soc department
and I took Intro to Sociology with
Professor Kroll and then I knew
that sociology was what I wanted to study. In terms of out of the classroom, a lot of our classes have
built in experiential learning,
internships, different service learnings.
Taking courses with Vicki Sommer, you get to go in and
out of the community I think about two
or three different times and we've been
able to visit a residential treatment
facility for adolescent youth, and thats Arrowhead Ranch
and we've also got to take a trip to Chicago
and go see a historic museum, which is actually now a college
so we really got to go inside there and study
all the history. Every one of our majors does a senior
capstone they spent 2 of their 3 terms in their junior or senior year or more depending on their
project working with faculty 1-on-1, developing a senior inquiry project, and in both anthropology and
sociology they pick a topic of interest
and then we supervise them and guide them as
they go out and do this project. I just did my own independent field research, on
the antique trade in the Quad Cities, so this summer I
got to interview antique dealers and collectors and kind of learn more about
what it's like to
to collect antiques here. I'm going to graduate
school at the University of Delaware. Im going to be studying
american material culture. We have majors who have
successfully placed in graduate programs
and we have majors who have successfully
placed in careers were they're using what they learned
in their major to be successful in their
jobs and career as well.
