Concentrations

​Emergency and Environmental Management 

Health & Health Services

Law & Society Concentration

​The Department of Sociology at the University of Delaware offers its undergraduate majors the opportunity to concentrate their study in emergency and environmental management.  While majoring in sociology, these students have the exciting opportunity to receive a strong sociological foundation in their understanding of the issues facing professionals in the emergency and environmental management area. At the same time, this concentration provides students with broad, interdisciplinary education, drawing from relevant courses in economics, geography, communications, geology, history, political science, public policy, and anthropology.  What's more, our students receive practical, in-field experience with public and private agencies concerned with their area of interest.  This undergraduate program provides the student with an excellent theoretical and practical education in his or her career field.

​The concentration in Health & Health Services is a robust, exciting, and engaging area of study. It offers students a coherent curriculum that emphasizes the socio-demographic, cultural, political, and ethical contexts that underlie health behavior and health policy. These ideas are particularly relevant in today's context, with the changing social and political landscape of healthcare.  Courses emphasize the social determinants of health and health disparities. They explore topics such as health policy, gender, the environment, bodies, race, and aging.  For students graduating from this program, the possibilities are endless. Graduates enter fields of medicine, public health, social work, non-profit, public policy, research, and health advocacy. 

Law has been a central focus of Sociology since its founding as an academic discipline.  The social sources of legal thought, the development and organization of legal institutions, the variety and practice of legal professions, and relationships among law and social justice are core issues in the courses in the Law and Society Concentration.  

Building on courses in methods and social theory, students take courses in both the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice as well as other departments.  These courses, offered by a dedicated and accomplished faculty, focus on a wide range of law and society topics.  The concentration requires a 400 level course that provides context for the understanding and analysis of law and society that fulfills the University's second writing requirement.  A required field placement course provides students with the opportunity to experience and observe the practice of law in such settings ad Delaware Family Court, private law firms, legal advocacy agencies, and law enforcement.

The Law and Society Concentration provides an excellent education for those interested in applying to law school or graduate school; and for those pursuing careers in law-related fields such as law enforcement, administration of justice, social justice, and business.