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Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology is to promote intellectual understanding of the human experience, past and present.

• We encourage and reward exceptional teacher-scholars and foster faculty/staff development that supports individual interests and strengths while promoting excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
• We advance critical thinking to discover, understand, and apply transformative knowledge about sociology & anthropology within the context of a diverse and global society.
• We create and maintain, with our students, an inclusive, challenging, and supportive teaching-learning community, both inside and outside the classroom, in order to promote student success, shared responsibility for learning, academic achievement, and globally engaged citizens.