Undergraduate News

The 2017-2018 Department Assessment Report, which was conducted to measure rates of performance on Institutional Core areas to include Intercultural Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills reflect the Department is performing above average in meeting benchmark performance in these key areas. Several departmental courses were selected for departmental review in this assessment process. Final analyses show, as a whole, the Sociology and Law and Society courses achieved a 91.07% benchmark score for successful course(s) activities that sufficiently measure students Interpersonal Skills, and a 93.24% achieved benchmark score for Intercultural Knowledge.

The department has developed an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (TA) program to afford undergraduate students opportunity to work alongside faculty through assisting in classroom management and other duties as designated. The first cohort of Undergraduate Student TA's will begin Spring 2019. Shawn Baldry is overseeing the logistics of this program and may be able to offer more information.

The Department has secured local law enforcement officers for part-time classroom instruction in certain policing related courses in the undergraduate curriculum. These officers enhance students' learning outcomes by applying practical law enforcement experiences with the theoretical understanding of police in society.

The department has developed new marketing materials to attract, inform, and connect students degree interests with professional career development. These marketing materials targets the Sociology undergraduate program philosophy for being student-centered, and serves to market our student's performance post-Purdue as benchmark recognition to our internal successes.