The Department of Sociology and Anthropology offers two major programs leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. The Department also offers a minor in each of these two fields. Our Sociology and Anthropology programs are designed to provide students with the tools to analyze, critically evaluate, and understand pressing global and domestic concerns and then to use that knowledge for the betterment of society.  

Both Sociology and Anthropology make connections between how we understand ourselves and behave towards others. Sociology cultivates the sociological imagination in students, enabling them to see the links between social structures and personal problems. Anthropology concerns itself with the entire range of human activities and cultures, preparing students to understand their place in an increasingly global, pluralistic, and multicultural world. With an eye towards affecting change, both disciplines look behind the scenes to identify social forces that shape behavior and perceptions.  

Whether in regard to urban social issues, inter-group relations, social institutions, health, gender, sexual, racial, organizational, environmental and indigenous cultural concerns, our goal is to provide students with the ability to both understand and to act on their knowledge

Our faculty conduct internationally recognized research and innovative, technologically-enhanced instruction. Grounded in practical experience but exploring the frontiers of their disciplines, they are models of academic excellence.

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Jubilee Hall. With six stories and more than 126,000 square feet of academic space, this structure provides a home for the Stillman School of Business, the College of Education and Human Services, the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law- Related Education and the Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Public and Healthcare Administration and Sociology and Anthropology. It contains 156 faculty and administrative offices and 30 teaching spaces, from seminar rooms that seat eight people to an auditorium seating 390. It also features a central, three-story skylit atrium where students and faculty can congregate informally. A major feature of the building is the technological capabilities it brings to the teaching and learning processes. These include fixed and flexible seating classrooms with the most contemporary information and distance-learning technologies that facilitate the transmission of lectures all over the world; laboratories with one-way observation mirrors; and classrooms with terminals for portable computers.

The University Libraries have notable resources, including extensive holdings of almost 700,000 book volumes, and 1,127 current periodical subscriptions, back-files of more than 6,500 serial titles, electronic access to full text articles in more than 25,000 journals, a broad selection of indexing and abstracting services in both digital and print formats, various microform collections, music CDs, and audiovisual aids.  A complete listing of database resources can be found at library.shu.edu.