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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Offered as part of the AU Abroad Morocco: Rabat program, this course is divided into three parts. The first focuses on Maghreb societies in the late nineteenth century, with specific emphasis on Moroccan society and culture and the multifunctional role of kinship and religion. The second is concerned with the study of socioeconomic structures during the colonial era. Finally, the third part focuses on similarities of structures and processes of socioeconomic change in North Africa. Attention is also given to culture and society in Egypt in order to underline similarities and differences with the Mahgreb.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Sociological perspectives on the construction of social problems in a changing world. Focus on analysis of contrasting views and solutions for such conditions as global inequality, environmental degradation, population growth, inequalities based on economic class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and age, and institutional crises involving families, education, health care, crime, and justice. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate A focus on what happens when divergent types of persons experience social contact. Racial, ethnic, tribal, national, and religious interactions throughout the world. The processes include conflict, amalgamation, acculturation, assimilation, prejudice, and discrimination. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Focuses on gender as a basic organizational principle of social life in order to study the social construction of gender and how gender relationships are transformed in the process of social change. The course examines how race, class, and gender interact with culture in shaping the lives, social positions and relationships of diverse kinds of women and men in a changing world. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Offered as part of the AU Abroad program in Berlin, this course outlines the classical concept of the totalitarian state as developed by Hannah Arendt and others, taking Hitler and Stalin as their models. It covers modifications in theories of totalitarianism as a result of historical changes and developments, as well as criticisms of the concept.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate This course considers the social, legal, and media constructions of white racial identities in relation to issues of racial justice. It examines how white privilege intersects with gender, class, and sexuality. Students develop skills for multicultural alliances and strategies for antiracist activism. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate A course on societal development that explores what it means for a society to "develop." How do we measure a society's development and what is known about the material, economic, political, social and cultural conditions necessary for development What worked and what did not work in past development strategies and which strategy is most likely to succeed in the 1990's global socio-economic system Meets with SOCY-665. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate The transition to a post-industrial society has led to a dramatic socio-political restructuring of major cities into complex systems of urban-suburban metropolises. Regional, national, and international forces are responsible for the contemporary growth and economic prosperity of suburban "edge" cities and the concentration of poverty and racial-ethnic/national minorities in the central city. This course explores the emerging international hierarchy of "global cities" with the socio-spatial patterns of inequality and political conflict. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Political sociology in a comparative global perspective including the role and functions of the state; relative state autonomy; state legitimacy; forms of democracy and democratization processes; state and civil society; political ideology and culture; and ethnicity, nationalism, and the state. Usually offered alternate springs. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate The comparative sociology of legal systems including state laws, social norms, and social control. Examines inequality in the provision of civil rights and legal statutes with regard to gender, ethnicity, and class. Also covers state legitimacy and the rule of the law; civil law, civil society, and economic development; and law, order, and movements for social change. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150.
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