Welcome to the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. For more than a century, the department has been deeply immersed in helping students to understand the intricacies of society and providing them with knowledge and tools they can utilize in a variety of professional fields. Two undergraduate programs (BA in Sociology and BA in Criminology), three minors (Sociology; Criminology; and Health, Society, and Policy) and an MA in Sociology program provide students in the department with valuable foundations to understand social-scientific research and theory. Students use their qualitative and quantitative training in a variety of careers.
Department faculty integrates the sociological tradition with Catholic Social Teaching to help answer deep questions: "What is the relationship between persons and social structures? What is a good society? What is a healthy or flourishing organization? What are the causes and consequences of social inequalities? What is social justice and what factors enable and obstruct it? And how do we reconcile individual responsibility with systemic and structural factors that shape human behavior?"
For Sociology students, three main tracks are available: Crime and Justice Studies, Global Comparative Processes, and Public Policy Analysis. Expert faculty can guide students with new insights from leading research in several countries and publications in social-scientific journals. Criminology students benefit from faculty who are also professional specialists with experience in the FBI and in leading the largest police departments in the country.
To learn more about majors and minors in Sociology or Criminology, feel free to contact us.