What is distinctive about Elons program?
How is the Elon program different from those found at most colleges and universities? At Elon, the disciplines of sociology and anthropology are combined to provide students with a comprehensive and integrated understanding of human societies. Our department’s approach is comprehensive in that it offers course work covering a wide range of societies and examines these societies at many different levels. However, sociology and anthropology courses do much more than describe the overall characteristics of societies, including such issues as cultural values, population characteristics and everyday customs. These courses also analyze basic socio-cultural institutions, such as family life, religion and economics; patterns of social difference, such as race, class and gender; types of social organization, like schools, businesses and social clubs; forms of interaction; and even the ways in which personal identity is formed. Our program is integrative in the sense that students are shown not
