The Major in Diversity and Community Studies provides graduates with a critical framework for understanding identity, inequality, and community development, as well as social change through both political structures and social movements. This framework, situated within a social scientific perspective, provides the knowledge and skills necessary for a wide range of vocations in social services, governmental, non-profit, and entrepreneurial sectors. Students majoring in diversity and community studies must complete a minimum of 33 credit hours (18 at the upper level) and must also select a minor, certificate, or second major. The major leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree. Sociology studies all aspects of life in a society, how it both shapes and is shaped by people. As a scientific discipline, Criminology arose directly from the field of sociology as sociological concepts inform explanations of crime and society's response to it.