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The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work is organized as a Ph.D. granting research department with explicitly defined missions of research, instruction, and service. The Department resides within the College of Arts and Sciences although its members have historically carried out research and service through the Social Science Research Center and Cobb Institute of Archaeology. The Department offers the B.A. degree in sociology, with a certificate in criminal justice and corrections, a BSW in social work and a B.A. degree and an applied M.A. in Anthropology. M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs are offered in sociology. In addition to 200 undergraduate majors in all programs, the department has over 50 graduate students in residence.

The Department has developed longstanding emphases in criminology, family and gender, social demography, social inequality, and community development. The Department is one of the larger concentrations of sociological expertise in the Southern region as evidenced in the number of graduate faculty, the enrollment of graduate students, the placement and success of doctoral graduates, the number and frequency of publication, the level of funding for grants and contracts, the facilities and other infrastructure for sociological research and education.