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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A practical opportunity to gain experience in public or volunteer social agencies.The student's participation is supervised by the course instructor as well as by agency staff members. Observation of social factors at work, reports, analysis and various presentations to the class constitute the academic requirements. Course is eligible for a continuing studies grade. prerequisites: all required sociology core and specialty courses
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis is placed on the meaning of work, economic and occupational systems, changes within occupational structure and the causes of these changes.Major themes are social theory and productive systems, occupational associations and trade unionism, occupational mobility and social power, the structure of industry and the labor market and interrelationships between industry and the wider community.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the causes, manifestations, consequences and reactions to deviant behavior. Examines such topics as domestic violence, substance abuse, white-collar crime and rape.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the correlates of class, mobility, status, power and conflict.
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3.00 Credits
Individual and social biology, methods and techniques. Genetic, cultural and ecological backgrounds of human variation.The mechanisms of evolution beginning with the fossil record and progressing through the emergence of modern hominids.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the reasons why people resort to violent methods of confrontation in the pursuit of their interests. Lethal conflict management whereby one group seeks to coerce another over a disputed issue is an accepted form of violence in most societies. Course reviews theories of warfare that relate specific sociological and political factors to the use of violence as a method of conflict management. Elaborates on militarism as an institution and shows how it developed from the simple "tribal" societiesinto the vast military-industrial complexes of modern societies. Formerly titled The Anthropology of Violence and Warfare.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the cultural, biological, psychological and historical development and interdependence between male and female sex roles.Topics include the influence of heredity and environment, stereotypes and stigmas, and the position of men and women within such institutional areas as law and education, religion, health, the economy and the political system.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of sexuality from a sociological perspective.Topics include how we learn to be sexual, sexual expression throughout the life course, sexual violence, and how such institutions as the family, law, the economy and religion shape our attitudes and behavior about sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the social, economic, cultural and social psychological factors associated with the definition, occurrence, causes and treatment of illness and sickness in different socioeconomic groups in Baltimore, the United States and other cultures.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature of informa- tion and its organization, control and use in our society.The relation of information to public policy decision-making. Issues related to privacy and access.The use of information as a form of power in societal institutions.
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