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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3) Comparative perspective with emphasis on U.S. multi-ethnic and multicultural relations. Theories of prejudice/discrimination. Demographic trends, stratifications, and monitoring of contemporary issues facing selected U.S. ethnic groups.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A sociological analysis of many of the major social problems in the U.S., such as inequality, crime, sexism, racism, power, and education. Such problems are examined from several different perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A sociological analysis of the family as the basic social institution. Attention focused on the creation, transmission, and reformulation of the rules of sexual behavior, marriage, childbearing, residence, descent, and authority with emphasis on enhancing the ability of individuals to make informed choices.
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3.00 Credits
(3) A survey of theories of social change, emphasizing the problems associated with the concept of change. Differences between dialectical and developmental approaches to social change are explored. The relationship between cultural change and social change is examined.
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3.00 Credits
(3) Analysis of the influence of social factors on the individual. Focus on psychological sociology, with theoretical and practical application of such processes as conformity, conflict, cooperation, perception, affiliation, etc.
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3.00 Credits
(3) Examination of the process by which social relations become ordered, structural products of this process; emphasis upon institutions and formal organizations.
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3.00 Credits
(3) Examination of national and international population trends (sex ratios, composition, migration, fertility, and mortality) and their singular and interactive impact on societies, their social institutions, and their policymaking strategies and processes.
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3.00 Credits
(3) The study of recent social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement. Focus is on the development of shared meanings, the role of ideology, the recruitment of members, and the impact of the movement on the institutional order.
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3.00 Credits
(3) This course will examine social structures, social processes, and social life of people coming from different parts of the world. In addition to providing an overview of cultures of different societies, the course will focus on a number of institutions, for instance, family, education, economics, politics, religion, and healthcare. Particular focus will be given to specific countries in different world regions.
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3.00 Credits
(3) An examination of trends in sexuality, sex roles, fertility, marital, and non-marital relations; parenting and the impact of changing sexual practices on individuals and institutions.
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