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Home> Undergraduate Program> Get Involved: UMSA

UMSA: University of Minnesota Sociological Association

University of Minnesota Sociological Association ("UMSA") is a student organization based on three main objectives:

• To provide sociology students a place for their voices to be heard.
• To provide a place for sociology majors and minors to interact with fellow undergraduates, graduate students and faculty within the department.
• To broaden the awareness of the sociology department to sociology majors/minors or perspective sociology majors/minors.

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Spring 2013 UMSA Meetings
(all students interested in Sociology are invited to attend)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UMSA is a forum for Soc majors to get connected with others in the Sociology Department at the U of M. Regular UMSA meeting times and dates/topics for upcoming events and additional announcements will follow in separate e-mail messages. There is a UMSA announcement board in the basement of Blegen (can be seen as you walk on the ground floor from Soc Sci building towards Blegen).

2012-2013 UMSA Officers (umsa@umn.edu):

President	Ashley McDonald
Vice-President	Shannon Adkins
Co-Chair	Yuting Wu
Secretary	Emily Philipp
Outreach Officer/Secretary	Neeraj Rajasekar
Marketing	Khim Yong Phee
Publication	Maria Kamenska

 

There are many ways to get involved with UMSA. All soc majors and minors are welcome and encouraged to attend. Feel free to contact any of the students above if you have suggestions for an event or if you want to learn more about your student organization. This is a very informal association and we are always looking for new members. Please join us if you would like a more active roll in your department.

If you have questions or are interested in becoming more involved in this student organization please contact an UMSA officer via email at umsa@umn.edu

Our Univ. of Minn. Soc Assoc. held several dynamic events over the past few years. Listed below are a few examples of the types of sessions we have organized on your behalf.

Past Events

• We held a Picnic on the Plaza in front of the Social Science building and distributed Chipotle burritos, chips and Coca-Cola products. This event was a fun way to meet with other majors and we were particularly thrilled with the turn out considering the challenging weather.
  
  
• A welcome reception was held for our new and visiting faculty, followed by pizza and a movie.
  
  
• A session was focused on students interested in careers in law enforcement.
  
  
• We invited a faculty panel in the Fall to discuss courses for the following Spring.
  
  
• Invited instructors sharee tips on how to successfully prepare for the Sociology senior project. The session was part fact-sharing, part myth-dispelling and part question/answer. The panel included Ann Hironaka, Ryan King, and Rob Warren.
  
  
• The group facilitated a round table discussion with majors who had recently returned from study abroad in such places as Ecuador, Korea, Australia, France, Spain, and India.
  
  
• A special guest speaker came from the Bloomington Police Department, Commander Ryan, and spoke about Homeland Security and Emergency Management in MN.
  
  
• On of our own honors student Dallas Drake, principal researcher and cofounder of the Center for Homicide Research, a Minnesota-based academic research project on homosexual homicide, presented a lecture on understanding homicide in general and the unique aspects associated with homicides involving the GLBT community.