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Welcome to the College of Social Sciences

Recognized for excellence

By choosing the College of Social Sciences, you’ll not only choose from a diverse group of programs such as Mass Communication, Nursing, and Pastoral Studies, and disciplines such as Counseling, Criminal Justice, Liberal StudiesPolitical Science, and Sociology, but you’ll also be choosing a college touted as a leader, singled out for excellence as one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors by the Princeton Review in 2008.

In addition, the College of Social Sciences is home to several centers and institutes that serve as important resources as Loyola teaches students to think critically and act justly: Center for Environmental Communication, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communication, and the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice.

student Successes

Counseling Students Alison Phillips and Christine Bagala Presented at the Illinois Counseling Association Annual Convention

 Counseling students Alison Phillips and Christine Bagala presented, "Using Existential Group Counseling With Adolescents Exhibiting Pre-Borderline Symptomology."  

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faculty Successes

WWL News speaks with Dr. Peter Burns on the President's State of the Union Address

Dr. Peter Burns, from Loyola University's Political Science Department, speaks with WWL News on the President's State of the Union Address 

 

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alumni Successes

Alumnus Katrina Workman Berger lands new post

Berger

Ms. Berger was just hired as the Deputy Assistant Director for Domestic Operations with the Department of Homeland Security.

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