Sociology

• To instill in students sound knowledge of sociology, an appreciation of its applications in different socio-cultural contexts and to involve the students in an intellectually stimulating and satisfying experience of learning and studying the workings of society.
• To provide students with broad and well balanced knowledge of sociological theories and methods.
• To cultivate in students the ability to apply their sociological knowledge and skills to the understanding and solution of societal problems in Nigeria and elsewhere.
• To provide students with relevant knowledge and skills base from which they can proceed to further studies in special areas of sociology or multidisciplinary areas involving sociology.
• To instill in students an appreciation of the importance of sociology in socio-cultural, legal, economic, political, industrial and environment contexts.
• To develop in students a range of useful competencies in public private or self-employment.

The Department of Sociology accepts the challenges of the interconnectedness of the global system, and envisions a world, where new ways of behaviour based on new perceptions and concepts about humankind, theory and practice, and global interdependence and new methods of evaluating and assimilating knowledge are required.

Therefore, the Department, in offering courses to students seeking to obtain the Bachelor and Master of Science Degree in Sociology, expresses an overall intention which aims to educate social science graduates for maximum flexibility; and to enable graduates to acquire a level of sophistication in communication and critical thinking skills for use in interpreting social phenomena in an increasingly globalized world and to analyze, synthesize and evaluate sociological knowledge of the dynamic interplay of gender, ethnicity, age, urbanization, development, crime, labour and class in society and the world, and to acquire the requisite skills to analytically communicate such knowledge.

Additional, the Department requires that its graduates (1) develop an international sociological imagination; (2) rigorously conceptualize and passionately interpret the transformative powers of social history on the affairs of humankind; and (3) evolve new, articulated and sophisticated theoretical perspective as basis for hypothesizing about contemporary rural/urban living, national and international social problems, social change, gender, ethnic; class; age stratification; cultural differences; and the complexities of global interdependence. The Department’s curriculum consists of core and elective courses which are aimed at teaching skills of observing, computing, and writing that are required in order to interpret national and international public issues of structure, and/or to conduct independent social science research in areas that are of particular interest.