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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines factors in the development and maintenance of prejudice and discrimination. Discusses American race relations, anti-Semitism, sex roles, and stereotyping.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the interpersonal and structural causes and consequences of violent behavior, from individual acts of aggression to large-scale societal conflict. Topics include multiple homicides, sexual assault, international conflict, hate crimes, juvenile violence, mass media violence, and domestic assault. The relative effectiveness of various interventions at the individual and group levels are discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes American poverty in historical perspective, drawing on comparisons with other countries. Critically evaluates sociological research and theories relating to poverty. Considers causes and effects of poverty as well as societal responses to poverty and its consequences. Suitable for students in applied fields, such as nursing, criminal justice, education, allied health, premed, and prelaw.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the political economy of the global environmental crisis. Topics vary and include such issues as world resource availability, energy, pollution, ecological degradation in the Third World, environmental policy, and social movements. Involves practical experience in environmental problem solving.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the foundations of urban life in historical perspective. Analyzes relation of city life to environment, population, social organization, technology, and cultural values. Examines growth trends, urbanization, urban planning, and citizen action.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on families historically and across cultures and classes. Considers changes in contemporary families in terms of gender, family composition; women's labor force participation, divorce, cohabitation, and other transformations.
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4.00 Credits
Examines physical, emotional, and sexual violence in families. Covers definitions, prevalence, causes, prevention, and treatment of specific cases of domestic violence as well as social policy issues and problems of legal intervention.
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4.00 Credits
Uses some of the tools of contemporary feminist theory and methodology to focus on questions about the resurgence of ethnic/religious identities in the United States and the meaning of this for contemporary Jewish women. Analyzes the changing relationship of women to Judaism by trying to recover Jewish women's experiences in America since the turn of the century. Accomplishes this by looking at some key institutions-work, family, religion, the feminist movement, the media, literature, and film.
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4.00 Credits
Considers why and how gender is constructed in American society, and looks at different theories of gender. Topics include the expression of gender in everyday life; its development in childhood; its centrality in the traditional family and the workplace; and sexuality and its role in violence against women.
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4.00 Credits
Considers the social and cultural movements of the 1960s and their origins in the civil rights movement. Examines the opposition to government policies and social norms that developed into the civil rights, student, New Left, antiwar, countercultural, and women's movements in order to understand their grievances, goals, composition, and impact.
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