Program Description
The Social Deviance concentration of Cal U's Bachelor of Arts in Sociology degree integrates concepts from various academic disciplines to examine and tackle the real-world issues of social deviance. Qualified undergraduate students in the Social Deviance concentration may be eligible to participate in the accelerated B.A.-to-M.Ed. program, which enables them to take graduate courses that apply to both their bachelor's degree in Sociology: Social Deviance and (thereafter) a master's degree in School Counseling.
The Master of Education in School Counseling fulfills the degree requirements needed for the National Counselor Examination (NCE), which is needed to become a National Certified Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor.
Program Coordinator
Dr. Elizabeth Gruber
Curriculum
The following curriculum shows the requirements for completing the bachelor's degree under the accelerated B.A.-to-M.Ed. program. Additional graduate-level courses are required to complete the master's degree; refer to the graduate academic catalog for these requirements.
Course
Credits
General Education Courses
40-41
Free Electives
40-41
Required Major Courses
15
SOC 100 Principles of Sociology
3
SOC 410 Social Theory and Society
3
SOC 415 Social Research Methods
3
SOC 429 Sociology Internship
3
MAT 215 Statistics OR MAT 205 Statistics for the Health and Social Sciences OR PSY 220 Descriptive Statistics
3
Related Electives
24
SOC 300 Sociology of Deviance
3
SOC 311 Sociology of Crime
3
SOC 318 Sociology of Addiction, Excess and Exploitation
3
SOC 324 Child Abuse and Neglect: A Societal Perspective
3
SOC 380 Society of the Sociopath
3
SOC 395 Sociology of Elite Deviance
3
SOC 400 Structural and Institutional Violence
3
SOC 405 Resocializing the Deviant and the Marginalized
3
Qualifying students may opt to take up to four 3-credit graduate-level courses in
place of free electives:
CED 700 Foundations of School Counseling
3
CED 702 Counseling Theory
3
CED 705 Developmental Group Counseling
3
CED 720 Cross-cultural Counseling
3
Total
120
Additional Requirements
Undergraduate students in the accelerated program may register for no more than 6 graduate credits in any one term, and in terms when a graduate course is registered, the student may not register for more than 18 total credits.
It is the student’s responsibility to apply and meet the qualifications of the graduate program portion of the accelerated program. Failure to follow through with enrollment in the accelerated graduate program will result in additional undergraduate credits to complete the bachelor’s degree, as outlined in the Undergraduate Credit for Graduate Courses policy.
Additional accelerated program requirements may be found at: https://www.calu.edu/inside/forms/_files/academic-affairs/accelerated-program-application.pdf
Program Webpages
Undergraduate
- https://www.calu.edu/academics/undergraduate/bachelors/sociology/deviance-campus.aspx
- https://www.calu.edu/academics/undergraduate/bachelors/sociology/online.aspx
Graduate