What is the mission statement of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology?
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has adopted the following mission statement to guide its work. This statement is as follows: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology provides students with important sociocultural problem-solving skills (including quantitative and qualitative research skills, critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills, and communication skills) and knowledge requisite to becoming productive, self-sustaining, humanistic, culturally relativistic, local, and global citizens and to becoming committed to such ends. It seeks most emphatically to address three particular objectives.
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has adopted the following mission statement to guide its work: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology provides students with important socio-cultural problem-solving skills (including quantitative and qualitative research skills, critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills and communication skills) and knowledge requisite to becoming productive, self-sustaining, humanistic, culturally relativistic, local and global citizens and to becoming committed to such ends. It seeks most emphatically to address three particular objectives. These are to provide students with opportunities: 1) to develop an informed respect for differences among cultures as well as an understanding of the interdependence of world conditions and of the needs for individual and collective responsibility for the environment; 2) to develop the ability to gather information; to think critically, logically and creatively; and to communicate effectively; 3) to apply so
