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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Directed individual study of a problem related to the fields of sociology, social work. Prerequisite: Sociology 1010 and junior or senior standing; scheduled by arrangement with instructor only.
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3.00 Credits
Schools of sociological theory and their relationships; theories of European and American sociologists. Prerequisites: 1010, junior standing or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Aging and retirement in American society; changes, social policies, and reviews of research. Prerequisite: Six hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Review of sociological research into the organization and administration of health care services; status, roles, and activities of health care personnel; health care organizations as social institutions. Prerequisite: Six hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will familiarize undergraduates with the variety of qualitative research methods used by social scientists, in the business world, in government, and among educators. Students will apply the methods to a series of research projects, and learn the reciprocal influence between theory and research design. Individual research projects will directly apply these methods throughout the semester. The methods include focus group interviews, individual interviews, unobtrusive observation methods, ethnographic field research, varieties of participant and non-participant observation, case studies, oral histories, and sociometry. Ethical issues bearing on research procedures and research design tasks are also course topics. Prerequisites: Six hours of sociology and junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Research methods in the social sciences for sociologists, including statistics and computer-based multivariate analysis. Data entry and manipulation using a variety of data sources and methodologies. Prerequisites: 1010 and Junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
History, philosophy, and theory of pre-institutional, and after-care programs for probationers and parolees; probation and parole processes and procedures including supervision, pre-sentence investigations, and work release programs. Prerequisite: 1010 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Family as a social institution in various cultures. Theory and research concerned with the family. Prerequisites: 1010 and junior standing or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Death as a source of insight and theories concerning the relationship of society to the individual. Functionalists and social-psychological perspectives on death in the work of Durkheim,Malinowski, Parsons, Marcuse and Kubler-Ross. Suicide, games and festivals, ecstatic movements, memorials and contact with the dead in American society. Prerequisite: 1010 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Extent of the problem and its setting; contributing factors and consequences; patterns and meanings in youthful drug use; programs for prevention and rehabilitation. Prerequisite: 2020 or consent of instructor.
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