THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE

STUDY WITH EMINENT SOCIOLOGISTS. Our faculty includes world-renowned experts in social problems, marriage and family, conflict and troubles, and social interaction. They’ve published more than four dozen books on these subjects.

INTERN. Milwaukee is an excellent environment for budding sociologists, providing you with a wealth of opportunities to put your major into action with social agencies throughout the city.

SOCIOLOGICAL SCOPE. Broaden your horizons with courses in Urban Sociology, Deviance and Social Control, Sport and Society and the Social Reality of Crime and Justice.

THE PLACE SOCIOLOGY CALLS "HOME." Social Problems, one of the premier academic journals of sociology, has taken up residence on Marquette’s campus, bringing a research component to Marquette’s mission of educating students in social justice.

THE URBAN LABORATORY. Marquette’s setting in the heart of a big city provides a cultural laboratory of human experience where you’ll have countless opportunities to do fieldwork.

SERVICE LEARNING. Link your sociology classroom experience with meaningful community service through Marquette’s Service Learning Program. Activities include serving at neighborhood organizations while learning about the history and challenges of neighborhoods, serving food and providing other services for the homeless while examining the roots of poverty in the United States, and serving hospice patients and their relatives by providing respite while learning about families in crisis.

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