The Sociology Department of State University

The reading passage contends the problem The Sociology Department of State University received and its solution to handle the issue. In the listening passage, the speaker explains deeply to clarify the department’s statement. In the reading, the author begins by stating that to handle hurtful comments from the workers of the sociology department, they made several important meetings to solve the problem. When they finished their meetings, they came up with several solutions. First, the sociology department will change the department's curriculum. Moreover, the reading passage states that the sociology department will increase the compulsory courses from three to five. In contrast, the number of optional courses decreased from five to three. The new policy that the department has made will keep the major's total number at eight. This new policy will affect all of the students in the department as soon as possible. However, in the listening passage, the speaker tries to make the statement from the reading passage clear about the department's new policy. Since the students who have already been in the program complained about the procedure, the department changed the policy, specifically for the old ones. He says that only the first-year students are required to follow the new policy, which is changing the number of courses, whereas the students who have entered the department course will not be forced to follow the procedure.