College of the Pacific

Degree Program

Students in our capstone seminar visit Berkeley’s KPFA studios, the country’s oldest publicly owned radio station. This photo was taken during a presentation by CS Sung, host of news program Against the Grain, on integrating social theory and civic engagement.

Students should begin the major (or minor) with two courses, taken in sequence—Foundations of Sociology and Social Research Methods.

At the same time, we encourage majors to take Social Psychology and a lower division elective.

These four courses will prepare you to move into the upper division's required core and elective courses, of which you must take a minimum of six.

You will also need to take a course in statistics and a course centered around experiential work such as our Field Work course.

Your final course, required of all seniors in their spring semester, is our Capstone Seminar, in which you will reflect on how sociology has enabled you thus far, and look ahead to what your sociological imagination has prepared you for, as you graduate from our program and Pacific.