Sociology
Engaged Sociology
Engaged Sociology takes what you鈥檙e learning in your courses and puts it into practice through internships, research, study away, winter term, career exploration, and beyond.
Here鈥檚 a sampling of recent projects, field experiences, and post-graduate destinations for sociology majors.
RISE at 91直播
Research. Internships. Study Away. Experiential Learning.
Ways Sociology Majors Rise
Research
- Pathways In and Out of STEM: An Exploration of School Structure and its Effects on Underrepresented Minorities at 91直播
- Dignity and Dining Halls: Relations of Power in 91直播 Labor
- Deconstructing Hypermasculinity: Combating the War on Black Men
- Head Start Works, But Why? Understanding the Persistence of an American Welfare Program
- PFLAG Narratives: Parenting LGBT Children
- Research Assistantships
Internships
- Bard High School Early College-Cleveland
- Lorain County Family Planning
- Alliance for Children鈥檚 Rights, Los Angeles
- Refugee summer youth peer counselor, International Rescue Committee, NYC
- NBCUniversal, NYC
- Tikkun Magazine, Berkeley, Calif.
- Council on Contemporary Families, Seattle
Study Away
- The Swedish Program, Sweden
- Programa de Estudios Hisp谩nicos en C贸rdoba (PRESHCO), Spain
- DIS Copenhagen (Danish Institute for Study Abroad), Denmark
- Social Change in Central America: Exploring Peace, Justice, and Community Engagement, Central America
- University of Amsterdam/Social Sciences, Netherlands
Experiential Learning
- Cleveland Immersion Program
- Practicum: Community Learning
- Community-based work-study program and volunteer
- 91直播 Community Services, social service intern
- Youth Opportunities Unlimited
- Urban Sociology Field Trip
- Training in Statistical Programs (SPSS)
- Training in Qualitative Data Analysis Software (MAXQDA)
First Destinations of Recent Sociology Majors
- Positions:
- AmeriCorps
- The Cleveland Foundation
- Fulbright
- Teach for America
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Newman鈥檚 Own Fellowship Program
- Planned Parenthood
- Presidio Trust
- George M. Pullman Educational聽Foundation
- HighScope Educational Research Foundation
- Urban School of San Francisco
- Interlink Mortgages
- Schuler Scholar Program, Chicago
- Graduate Schools:
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
- University of Michigan鈥搒ociology
- Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy
- Notre Dame鈥搒ociology
- Columbia鈥揗A in climate and society
- UC Santa Cruz鈥揚hD in sociology
- University of Wisconsin鈥揚hD in sociology
- Case Western Reserve University鈥揚hD in sociology