Department Chair: Dr. Chris Moyers
Counseling: (408) 855-5030
Phone: (408) 855-5300
cmoyers@pacbell.net
Learning Outcomes
The Department of Sociology is designed to further the goals of Mission College to provide students a learning experience which will meet their lifelong educational needs and enhance their abilities to live and work in a diverse society.
The specific learning outcomes and objectives of the Department is to provide students with the ability to:
- Understand and utilize the basic principles and points
of view of sociology, which will allow the students to gain insight
into the behavior of people functioning in social groups.
- Understand and better function within social institutions.
- Gain insight into formal and informal social groups.
- Gain insight into the formal and informal rules of social behavior.
- Understand social customs and social interactions within specific
groups, and in specific social situations, such as:
- Marriage
- Families
- Sexual relationships
- Minority and racial relationships
- Acculturation of immigrant and sub-dominant groups
- Religious institutions and belief groups
- Problematic behaviors, such as injustice and criminal behavior
- Changes in social situations that come with aging
- Understand global perspectives that affect the United States society
- Have an opportunity to experience community service in the format
of "social field work."
- Attaining educational goals of:
- Pursuing general education
- Transferring to four-year schools
- Completing career goals in vocational programs
Mission College
3000 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1897
408-988-2200