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3.00 Credits
Social and economic organization of the mass media of communication. Effects on content. Themes of mass culture. Social composition of the audience. Effects of the media on the audience. Topics such as television, films, the press, books, magazines, and advertising. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester Second Summer Semester
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Review of progress and social problems associated with the development of globalization. Alternative interpretations of the core features of the world system. Exploration of specific issues including distribution of economic and political power, role of multinational businesses, movement of peoples, cultural flows, intersection of global and local, the negative features of globalization, global cities, "anti-global" social movements, and different models for reform. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
College life from 1915 to the present as seen by social scientists and Hollywood filmmakers. College admissions and the first-year experience. Student-professor relationships. Student roles, including coursework, social life, athletic participation, and political activism. Impact of higher education. Application of scholarly research to feature-length films and film clips. Prerequisites One course in Sociology. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Please see department website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Opportunity for students to apply a body of sociological knowledge in a practical setting, including community-based, profit or nonprofit, governmental, or other sites. Individual faculty sponsor internships in their areas of expertise. Students must have an on-site supervisor, and complete a piece of meaningful scholarly work related to the internship area. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Sociology 1 or 10, plus one additional course in sociology related to internship area. To be arranged by individual members of the department. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester Second Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Data analysis and statistics for the social sciences. Sampling, describing data, and logic of inference, especially with surveys. Introduction to microcomputer tools for analysis and graphic display. Answering research questions through individual or group projects. Prerequisites One introductory social science course. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Mathematical Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester First Summer Semester Second Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to research design, logic of inquiry, data collection, and evaluation of evidence using qualitative methods in the social sciences. Techniques include archival research, survey and questionnaire design, content analysis, and evaluation research, as well as ethnographic field strategies, participant observation, and interviewing. Introduction to data analysis including instruction in software packages that code qualitative materials. Students may join ongoing faculty-led research or select their own research question. Prerequisites One introductory social science course. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Backgrounds of contemporary scientific analysis of human behavior. Recurrent conceptual problems and major theories of human nature and society as formulated by significant social theorists during the past century. Prerequisites Sociology 1 or 10. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Community Health 108.) Origins, epidemiology, and evolution of epidemics, rooted in biology, behavior, social organization, culture, and political economy. Societies' efforts to contain diseases, their effects on world history, and their cultural record in literature and contemporary sources. Cases range from early plagues (syphilis, smallpox, bubonic plague) and the recurrent threats of influenza, malaria, and tuberculosis, to nineteenth-century famines, and "modern" scourges such as the global challenge of AIDS. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Sociological perspectives on majority-minority relations. Racial myths and realities. Nature and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Patterns of accommodation and conflict; impact of social, economic, and legal change. Historical and recent patterns of immigration. Special focus on the history and current situation of white-black relations, the civil rights and black-power movements, and recent public policy debates and enactments. Prerequisites Sociology 1 or 10 or junior standing. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the following culture options: African and African-American Culture - * Diasporic This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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