Bachelor of Science in Sociology - Law, Justice, and Social Change

The Law, Justice, and Social Change program offers students a coherent curriculum that emphasizes the relationship between legal institutions, inequality, and the capacity of social groups to produce fundamental social change. Law, Justice, and Social Change will offer students An understanding of theoretical perspectives on justice and on the connection between law and society, Frameworks for thinking about legal compliance, deviance, and resistance, Perspectives for thinking about the relationship between law on the books and law in action, Tools for thinking about the relationship between law and social change, Understandings of the law in international contexts and in regard to human rights issues, The foundation of theory, methods, and substantive knowledge necessary to develop informed perspectives on criminality, crime policy, and the social consequences of legal punishment, Tools for understanding the role of social policies in creating and ameliorating inequality.