UCF Sociology | Undergraduate Programs
See the system.
Solve the problem.
Bring your questions about health, crime, technology, and society. Build the skills to investigate them.
Start with what interests you
Health & medicine ↗
Crime & justice ↗
Science, Technology & Society (STS) ↗
Explore a degree. Focus your studies with a B.S. track. Add a certificate or minor.
Your Interests. A Research Foundation.
Sociology B.A. and B.S.
Study the questions you keep coming back to. Why does inequality persist? How do families change? What makes an institution work?
Explore health, crime, culture, families, and social change while learning to ask focused questions, interpret data, and evaluate explanations. Both degrees combine social theory, statistics, research methods, and an individual research project. The B.S. also offers the focused tracks below.
Sociology B.A. & B.S.
Graduate with research of your own.
In Data Analysis: Capstone, develop an original research project with faculty guidance. Gain experience turning a question into an analysis and explaining what your results mean.
B.A. or B.S.? Compare the requirements.
Both degrees require 120 total credit hours. Here’s what sets them apart.
Sociology B.A.
Proficiency equivalent to two semesters of college instruction in a foreign language or American Sign Language.
Sociology B.S.
An additional approved methods course. The B.S. has no additional foreign-language graduation requirement.
Focus Your Sociology B.S.
Two tracks. Questions worth pursuing.
Connect your interest in health or crime and justice with the research skills to investigate it. Both tracks include statistics, research methods, advanced methods, data analysis, and an original research project.
Sociology B.S. Track
Medical Sociology
Why do some communities live longer?
Look beyond the doctor’s office. Examine how living and working conditions, inequality, public policy, and healthcare institutions shape health, illness, and access to care.
Connect it to your future
Prepare for health research, community health, healthcare organizations, and policy, or further study in public health, sociology, social work, medicine, and related fields.
Planning a clinical career? Work with advising on any additional prerequisites.
Sociology B.S. Track
Crime, Law & Deviance
What makes a community safer?
Study why crime occurs, how laws are created and enforced, who experiences victimization, and how communities respond to harm. Learn to evaluate explanations and examine the evidence behind crime and justice.
Connect it to your future
Prepare for justice organizations, victim services, community programs, public agencies, policy, and research, or further study in sociology, criminology, criminal justice, public policy, and law.
Add a New Perspective to Your Major
Science, Technology & Society (STS)
Undergraduate Certificate · 15 credit hours
AI. Biotechnology. Digital media.
Who shapes these technologies, who benefits, and who carries the risks?
Complement your major with coursework on the social, ethical, and policy questions surrounding technological change. Build your ability to assess its consequences and communicate across technical and nontechnical audiences. Connect that perspective to interests in technology, policy, communication, and public service.
Start with SYP 2422: Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Core course
Build across disciplines
Two Humanities electives
Two Social Science electives
Combine Your Interests
Social Sciences B.S.
Your interests can cross disciplines. Your degree can, too.
Build an interdisciplinary degree around three approved social science minors, alongside statistics and an approved research methods course. Options span anthropology, communication, political science, psychology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies.
Work with advising to connect an approved combination to your academic and career interests.
3 approved minors
Only one minor from any department or school.
120 credit hours
Total degree requirement.
Keep Your Major. Broaden Your Perspective.
Seven ways to add sociology.
Studying something else? Explore a minor in health, crime, culture, inequality, global issues, or spatial analysis. These minors are for students majoring in fields other than Sociology. Select a minor to learn more.
Sociology · 18 credits
Build a broad understanding of social life, institutions, and behavior through a flexible selection of sociology courses.
Medical Sociology · 18 credits
Examine how social conditions influence health, illness, access to care, and the organization of healthcare.
Crime, Law & Deviance · 18 credits
Investigate crime, delinquency, deviance, victimization, and the relationships between law and society.
Social Structures and Opportunity
Study class, status, and power, and how social structures shape access to resources and opportunities. See the program page for current requirements.
Mass Culture and Collective Behavior · 18 credits
Explore popular culture, religion, sports, leisure, consumption, public opinion, and social movements.
Global Sociology · 16 credits
Examine social problems across societies. Includes study abroad and independent study; plan those experiences with advising.
Spatial Sociology
Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to investigate social and environmental disparities, health, and crime. See the program page for current requirements.
Take the Next Step
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what interests you and where you want to go. Undergraduate advising can help you compare degrees, certificates, and minors, see how your coursework applies, and plan your next step.
Confirm requirements for your catalog year using official program information, your degree audit, and advising. Check sections, prerequisites, and availability in myUCF before enrolling.
Questions About These Programs?
Dr. Angela Vergara
Sociology Undergraduate Director and Social Sciences Program Director
Angela.Vergara@ucf.edu
Department of Sociology
Howard Phillips Hall (HPH), Room 403
407-823-3744
sociology@ucf.edu
Department Website