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  • 20 Minutes Can Make All The Difference When school lets out at Tacoma’s Birney Elementary, Sergio Beltran (Class of ’10 PLU sociology alum) can be found outside the cafeteria greeting students as they head into Expanded Learning at the All-Star Center. On a recent Thursday, Sergio noticed one student looked a little… March 9, 2020

  • 20 Minutes Can Make All The Difference When school lets out at Tacoma’s Birney Elementary, Sergio Beltran (Class of ’10 PLU sociology alum) can be found outside the cafeteria greeting students as they head into Expanded Learning at the All-Star Center. On a recent Thursday, Sergio noticed one student looked a little… March 9, 2020

  • Anna Leon-Guerrero Professor of Sociology Email: guerreay@plu.edu Status:Phased Retirement Professional Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988 B.A., Communications and Sociology, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 1983 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Organizational Behavior Quantitative Data Analysis Books Social Statistics for a Diverse Society co-authored with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias - 8th

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  • Criminal Justice Minor20 semester hours, including: SOCI 101: Introduction to Sociology SOCI 201: Introduction to Criminal Justice 4 semester hours of a SOCI Inequality Elective course. Choose from SOCI 210 (Gender and Society), 240 (Social Problems), 332 (Race and Ethnicity), or 410 (Social Stratification). 4 semester hours of a SOCI Criminal Justice Elective course. Choose SOCI 226 (Delinquency and Juvenile Justice), 287 (ST in Criminal Justice), 387 (ST in Criminal Justice), 413

  • Criminal Justice MajorThe criminal justice curriculum at PLU is cumulative, such that the skills developed in lower-division courses set the groundwork for the skills to be developed in upper-division classes. We advise students to select their courses with this curricular philosophy in mind. Students are required to complete 40 credit hours in the major. 40 semester hours, including: SOCI 101: Introduction to Sociology SOCI 201: Introduction to Criminal Justice SOCI 232: Research Methods SOCI

  • ,” says Provost Joanna Gregson. “We attract students who are enrolling in college with the specific goal of leveraging their education to positively impact their communities. The new criminal justice program will provide us with another excellent route to prepare our students to meet their goals and serve the public good.”  Faculty members say that the new program, which includes both a major and minor in criminal justice, grew out of a longstanding criminal justice track within the sociology major at

  • is most common among adolescents and college-aged young people and has begun receiving attention from the psychological community on par with the attention paid to eating disorders. The Adlers’ work is the first to move beyond a psycho-medical analysis of self-injury to include social dimensions of how this behavior is carried out and influenced. Patti Adler, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Peter Adler, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at the

  • Grete BrochmannGrete Brochmann is professor of sociology, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. She has published several books and articles on International migration; sending and receiving country perspectives, EU policies, welfare state dilemmas as well as historical studies on immigration. She has served as a visiting scholar in Bruxelles, Berkeley, and Boston. In 2002 she held the Willy Brandt visiting professorship in Malmo, Sweden. She was recently head

  • MASTER OF ARTS IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY Admission RequirementsAdmission to the Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy program is competitive and each application is considered holistically. The minimum requirements for admission to the MFT program are: Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution with a major in Family Studies, Human Services, Psychology, Sociology, or Social Work. Or a minimum of 15 semester hours  (or 22.5 quarter hours) in Family Studies, Human

  • American Sociological Association’s Honors Program Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 By By Jeannette ShimkoCommunications Coordinator/Admin AssistantTACOMA WA - Congratulations to Robert Gallagher (Sociology Junior) for his acceptance into the prestigious American Sociological Association's Honors Program!According to the ASA “the Honors Program provides undergraduate sociology students a rich introduction to the professional life of the discipline. Once admitted, these