We gave some of our undergraduate students the opportunity to share their experiences with the Sociology Department thus far - scroll below to read their stories!
Emily Saleme is a 3rd year student in Honors Criminology and Public Policy Analysis from Westerville, Ohio.
Emily says, "I chose criminology because it fell into my interests throughout my life. Criminology gives me the opportunity to learn about how the world works from a sociological perspective as well as learn more about the criminal justice system. I also am very interested in the legal aspects of crime and what implications that has on crime in our nation. I paired my major with the Bachelor of Science program in Public Policy Analysis to work to learn about how to create policies that can help our current criminal justice system.
Emily's favorite part about the OSU Sociology Department is the faculty’s level of compassion for students. She notes that the faculty members she has interacted with "really want to help students and encourage their learning. I was able to meet with and learn about many professors and feel their dedication within the classes I am in. Sociology is such an applicable field to many other fields and is interdisciplinary and that has been shown through many of my classes and the use of examples as well as current events in our lectures."
Finally, when asked about how she takes what she learns from the Sociology Department and applies it to the real world, Emily writes, "I have supplemented my learning about sociology with internship at AARP Ohio my sophomore year. I was able to see parts of sociology I learned in the classroom in practice with my internship and learned valuable professional skills. AARP is a nonprofit and a lot of the issues it deals with I learned form my sociology classes."