Welcome to Sociology @ St. Thomas!
Edmund Casey Hall
St. Thomas University
Today’s world is marked by profound challenges. Young
people coming to university today will have to deal with
climate change, the lasting effects of economic upheaval
and the continuing problems of global inequality. They
will also face changing gender roles, increased global
migration, and shifting personal identities in a
post-modern, post-national world. Sociology prepares
students to understand how these historical events shape
our perceptions of ourselves and our interactions with
others both in the private life of friendship, family and
intimate relations, and in the public life of the city,
the country, and the world.
At St. Thomas, sociology explores the connection between
our historical moment and our most intimate anxieties and
fears. Our students are encouraged to develop a
‘sociological imagination’, to help them work through the
personal troubles and public issues of our lives. In the
process of expanding our knowledge of the social world
around us, sociology often increases our ability to
recognize the possibilities and importance of social
change.
Our department offers majors, minors, and honours
programmes. Our courses provide a solid grounding in the
various fields of the discipline, ranging from topics such
as the internet and cyberspace, through social inequality
and war to religion and the family. Classes in research
methods and theory provide the framework of a
distinctively sociological approach to the social
sciences.
Welcome to sociology at STU.