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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will cover the interchangeable impact and relationship between society and the environment. It will explore how social institutions and structures impact the environment. It also will look at historical and current issues in relation to environmental degradation and injustices.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Proficiency in basic math and elementary algebra and an introductory course in one of the social or behavioral sciences or instructor's permission. This course covers the basic descriptive and inferential statistics used in the social and behavioral sciences including parametric and non-parametric tests. The emphasis is upon understanding concepts learning when and how to apply procedures and tests and developing an informed and skeptical perspective for interpreting the results of statistical analyses.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will examine the social foundations history politics and economics of domestic and international terrorism. We will explore the continuum of terrorist actions from gender and family violence to political and religious international terrorist organizations. We will begin by examining the nature of terror in family group and normal social life. We will go on to examine the historical and modern origins of terrorism the causes of ideological political and religious terror especially we will focus on gender-selective terrorism and social causes of violence and terrorism.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 or Soc 100. Explores the functions social relationships and advantages of the human family as a cross-cultural social institution. The course will consider marriage forms and the possibilities of marriage dissolution. family forms. kinship and inheritance. patterns of authority and power and child rearing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Soc 100 Ant 100 Soc 101 or permission of instructor. This course will cover demographic concepts such as fertility and mortality rates and the effects of migration. global cultural patterns: foragers subsistence farmers peasant farmers urbanites and industrialism with relation to population pressures and resource use. family value systems cross-culturally and historically that affect family size. the effects of economic change and colonialism on world populations. the effects of 20th century population growth on natural resources such as clean air and water. and the effects of contemporary industrial over-consumption on allocation of resources. We will take a cross-cultural and global approach. Students will be expected to design a research project that identifies a population problem impacting a localized environment and propose a culturally useable solution to it.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Pre-requisite: Soc 100. This course plans to introduce the issue of racial and ethnic relations in America. Theoretical and histocical aspects of race and ethnicity will be reviewed. The class will then discuss current issues of race and ethnicity with specific emphasis on the media.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Soc 100 3 additional hours in sociology and one of the following: Eco 100 Ant 100 Gov 200 or Pos 100. This course discusses the processes of social change and the theories and models explaining change. It emphasizes the changes resulting from industrialism since 1800 and globalism since 1950 particularly technological institutional and ideological changes in social values and behaviors. While it is cross-societal and global in scope we will be concentrating on contemporary North America. We will also examine the American impact globally.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This class will look at environmental justice and social movements. Environmental Justice refers to action taken by individuals organizations and/or communities to address environmental atrocities. This may include environmental racism the targeting of poor and/or rural/urban communities and/or deceptive practices by government and/or industry. This class also will address environmental social movements looking specifically how environmentalism developed in the United States and address the present day condition of environmentalism.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course offers an introduction to understanding speaking reading and writing Spanish. Students will acquire language functions career specific vocabulary structure and culture through contextualized multimedia interactive activities and extensive practice on their own. For beginning students or those with one year of high school Spanish.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: None. Study of theater in society from primitive times to the present. An overview of developments in general theatre practice. acknowledging stage architecture scenic design costuming acting and directing styles dramatic literature and theatre innovators as related to changes in society.
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