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    Studio internships are for students who have completed at least three studio courses and whose academic work has prepared them for professional work related to the major design internships as studio assistants to professional artists or for work in museums, galleries, or professional print shops in the metropolitan and regional areas.Internships require faculty sponsorship and departmental approval, and are developed by each student in consultation with the supervising professor.Internships must be finalized with the studio program director by the midpoint of the preceding semester.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course builds on the experience of Painting I and stresses fluency in paint and the advanced development of technical and expressive skills.It focuses on the generation of ideas as a central component in the process of painting.Individual direction is developed in consultation with the instructor.The course, typically offered in the spring semester, includes individual and group criticism.(Prerequisite: SA 130) Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This introduction to sociology provides students with a sense of sociology's orientation; its particular way of looking at human behavior in the context of people's interaction with each other.The course emphasizes the kinds of questions sociology asks, the methods it uses to search for answers, and how it applies the answers to problems of people's everyday lives and issues of social policy.Three credits
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    This course analyzes the dominant ideology and values that have shaped American culture - namely the Protestant ethic - and how and why these values are changing.The course also analyzes major institutional trends that have transformed and continue to transform America and the modern world - bureaucratization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the business corporation, science, and technology - and the effects of these institutions in producing new personality types, mass society, and rapid social change.The course provides a macro-sociological framew ork.This course meets the U.S. diversity requireme nt. Three credit
  • 3.00 Credits

    The family is a basic social institution of all societies.This course, which examines family systems as they exist in other cultures and in times past, focuses on understanding the contemporary American family system.Students consider American patterns of dating, mate selection, sexual behavior, marriage, parenting, and aging, as well as alternative life styles and family instability.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores the social construction of human sexual behavior, examining the influence of social institutions on sexuality, social responses to variations in behaviors, and the organization of sexual identities.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course offers a combined theoretical and empirical treatment of the sociology of religion, the character of religious institutions, the relations of religious institutions with other institutions in society, and the internal social structure of religious institutions.It gives particular attention to the process of secularization in the modern world and the crisis this poses for traditional religion.Cross-referenced with RS 241. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the roots and structure of class in the United States and the consequences of this hierarchical arrangement on everyday life.It focuses primarily on social class; however, the dynamics and consequences of social class cannot be fully under-stood without addressing the complex interconnections between class, race, and gender. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course analyses sociological and social psychological dimensions of race relations, ethnic interaction, and the changing role and status of women.It focuses on the American scene but also examines problems of women and minorities in other parts of the world and their importance for world politics.It also considers what sociologists and social psychologists have learned about improving dominant/minority relations. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores the nature of the city and growth of metropolitan regions in the contemporary world; the ecological approach and the use of demographic data in the analysis of modern urban communities; social organization of metropolitan regions and the emergence of urban-suburban conflict; big-city politics, community control, and regional government as dimensions of organization and disorganization in city life; and city planning and urban development at local and national levels as efforts to solve the urban crisis.Three credits.
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