Overview

The Sociology program is offered at Rhodes University. The Department endeavours to provide students with a broad array of analytical and research skills in order to afford them competence across a range of occupations.

Executive Summary

In accordance with the mission statement, the following constitute key areas of focus for the department:

• Emphasising academic quality and excellence.
• Developing postgraduate programmes and changing the balance between under- and postgraduate students.
• Investigating possibilities for staff development.
• Encouraging regional cooperation in teaching and research.
• Exploring different learning and teaching strategies.
• Preserving the identity and integrity of sociology as a discipline.
• Constructing a range of courses that are sufficiently flexible to reflect the diverse interests of our student body as well as the demands of the marketplace.
• Constructing a syllabus that is realistic in the sense that it takes cognisance of the areas of competence and research interests of the lecturing staff.
• Linking the main streams in the department, General Sociology, Sociology of Development and Industrial Sociology, to particular career paths.
• Identifying areas of concentration and growth.