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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 or consent of instructor; for majors in sociology and behavioral sciences This course addresses the history of social theory and selected topics in modern social theories, analysis of alternative conceptual approaches and their methodological requirements. Either semester. (Formerly SOCI 400)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101, and the speaking skills requirement. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 299 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are speaking-intensive, topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their speaking, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 298 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are writing-intensive, topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their writing, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or consent of instructor both positively and negatively. The course will also focus on inequality (the “digital divide”), the role of the Internet in developing community, the implications of the Internet and the Web for the control over and access to information, the social and cultural effects of technological change, and the effects of the Internet and the Web on work, economy and community. The course will also examine race, ethnicity, class and gender in relation to the digital divide.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or consent of instructor This course examines schools as social organizations, the culture of schools, the relationships between education and social stratification and the sociology of educational reform. All levels of education are considered, from kindergarten through higher education. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or consent of instructor Concepts of health, illness, disease, and health care analyzed from the perspectives of patient (client), practitioner and relevant third parties. Medicine will be analyzed as a social system, with attention to factors in the physical and sociocultural environment and case materials will be drawn from non-Western as well as Western societies. Offered alternate years, fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or CRJU 201; or consent of instructor This course examines women and crime from sociological and criminological perspectives. The course will cover a wide variety of topics related to women and crime, including crimes against women, crimes perpetrated by women, women in prison and women as criminal justice system officials. The course will closely examine violent crimes against women including rape, murder and battering. It will also focus on battered women who kill their attackers. Other important topics include feminist criticisms of mainstream criminology and the emergence of feminist theories in criminology. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or consent of instructor This course is a study of the relationship between majority and minority groups in America, with attention to the domination of categories of people on the basis of their race, sex, age, ethnicity and/or religion. Theories and data will be presented concerning the development, maintenance and operation of discrimination and prejudice and the relationship between them. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or CRJU 201; or consent of instructor This course examines violence in the family from sociological and criminological perspectives. It also examines the response of the criminal justice system to family violence. The course examines the extent, types and causes of violence in families and domestic units and will also analyze the reasons why most family violence is directed against women and children. The course considers recommendations for family intervention and policies for the prevention of family violence, as well as the social and legal implications of those recommendations. Alternate spring semesters. Catalog Addenda: This course has changed effective Spring 2011. Please click on the icon above.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 and SOCI 290; or consent of instructor This course explores debates on diversity within the U.S. by taking a sociological perspective on the experiences of various racially and ethnically defined groups and on the relations among those groups. Drawing on a sociological approach to immigration, race and ethnicity, stratification and conflict, the course focuses on the role of power, privilege and access to resources in the social construction of race and ethnicity. The course will also examine important policy debates, including those over Affirmative Action, poverty, crime and criminal justice; inequality and health education and social mobility; and policy questions related to inequality and poverty. Fall semester.
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