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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Traces the history of several minority groups in the United States, and analyzes their current demographic, economic, and social situations. Minority/dominant relations are examined. Emphasis is placed on the study of prejudice and discrimination. This course meets General Education requirements: Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues and Social Awareness. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Sociological theories and research are used to analyze a variety of communities, including communes, prisons, villages, neighborhoods, and metropolitan areas. Students will use surveys, interviews, and participant observation in selected west Michigan communities. This course meets General Education requirements: Social Awareness, Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Fall Only
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Ecological and functional organization of urban life in cities around the world. Demographic, economic, and sociological aspects of world urban development including both historical and current issues related to urban planning and redevelopment. This course meets General Education requirements: Social Awareness, Global Consciousness; Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Spring Only
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Consideration of the changing position of older people from pre-industrial to modern societies and potential changes in the future. Sociological, psychological, biological, and economic aspects of the aging processes and the later years of life are discussed. Alternative living opportunities in retirement, and community support services, present and emerging are explored. Other contemporary issues in the field of social gerontology are also explored. This course meets General Education requirements: Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Fall, Spring
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. This course uses the artifacts in the FSU Jim Crow museum (JCM) and essays on the JCM's website to teach students to analyze race and race relations as reflected in popular culture. Students will analyze the origins, social consequences, and public policy implications of traditional racial caricatures and contemporary caricatures. Special attention is devoted to the ways that racial images both shape and reflect a nation's attitudes and beliefs about race and race relations. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or SOCY 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Summer Only
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. An overview of the nature and consequences of a variety of handicaps, including visual, hearing, and mobility impairments. An examination of the many physical, psychological, and social barriers faced by the handicapped in everyday life and in various specific institutional settings such as the schools and the work place. An assessment of possible strategies and policy solutions for confronting the problems of the handicapped. This course meets General Education requirements: Social Awareness. Pre- Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Fall Only
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Understanding leisure and recreation from the standpoint of various macroand micro-level sociological theories and by using both quantitative and qualitative social science research methods. Existential, developmental, social identity, interactionist, exchange, institutional, conflict, and voluntaristicpositivistic theories will be examined; survey, observation, case study, and experimental research techniques will be utilized. Students will apply these theories and techniques to selected issues in recreation and leisure studies through individual and group projects. This course meets General Education requirements: Social Awareness, Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Spring Only
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Introduces the use of descriptive and inferential statistics in social scientific analysis: measures of central tendency, variability, probability, correlation and regression. Students utilize SPSS and other statistical software to properly produce and interpret data outcomes. Students apply statistical analysis in their curriculum concentrations as generalists or in race, ethnicity and gender, or community studies. Connections are made with previous considerations of social inquiry using qualitative methods. Prerequisites: SOCY 121, SOCY 270 and 271 or permission of advisor. Typically Offered Spring only.
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3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 3 This course has a lecture with 3 hours. Health and illness as a social concern. Studies major actors in the health care system, issues facing health care systems, and crosscultural perspectives on health and illness. This course meets General Education requirements: Race/Ethnicity/and or Gender Issues and Social Awareness. Pre-Requisites: SOCY 121 or 122 or ANTH 122. Typically Offered Spring Only
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
College: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Social Sciences Dept Credit Hours: 1 TO 3 This course has a lecture with 1 TO 3 hours. This course has a lab with 1 TO 3 hours. Special Topics in SOCY - 300 Level. This course covers various topics taught by diverse faculty and may not be offered every semester. Typically Offered On Demand
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