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Undergraduate Advising
The Sociology Department is committed to providing one-on-one academic
and career advising to our majors. Contact information for undergraduate
advising is provided below.
Undergraduate Advisor
 Dr. Samuel Cohn, Professor
417 Academic
(979)845-0814
Email: profcohn@yahoo.com
Internship Coordinator
Dr. Carol Albrecht
Academic 328A
(979)-862-4689
Email:
Advising Policy and Goals
In the Sociology Department, we have a strong commitment to customizing
student's programs to reflect their individual needs. Texas A&M is a
large and somewhat impersonal university; it is possible in some programs
to pass through the system without receiving a great deal of guidance.
In the Sociology Department, we work to keep that from happening by
dedicating significant time and effort to one-on-one counseling with
undergraduate advisers.
When sociology students first come to A&M, we give each student and
their accompanying family members a session of approximately an hour,
where we discuss the student’s career plans, their interests,
their strengths and their weaknesses, and develop a customized
program for their first semester. We try to avoid the standard large
warehouse courses except in situations where such a course precisely
meets the needs of the student.
Afterwards, we meet fairly regularly with our majors, to develop a
career plan and a course of study that is consistent with that
career plan. Our goal is to have a student’s courses fit a larger
logic that has its own individual pedagogical and occupational
merits. If the student’s career plans or interests change, then
the course sequence changes to reflect these new circumstances. We
do not use standardized course menus, or push our students to
identify in their sophomore year every single solitary course that
they will take through senior year. Instead, we work with students
each semester to find where they are in their development, changing
the plans where need be to reflect the student's individual growth,
and making use of new courses, professors and opportunities as they
become available that would complement the student's plans.
We are one of the few sociology departments in the country that
keeps a dedicated advisor solely for the purpose of setting up
internships and job opportunities for our majors. We are committed
to seeing that our students have excellent job prospects when they
graduate; dedicated internship and occupational counseling is one
method for giving our students a competitive edge.
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