|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Fall Semester In this course, students study the relationship between school and society in historical and contemporary contexts. Issues such as class, ethnicity, gender, and culture will be explored as well as ways in which educators have responded to them. Students will also study schools as workplaces and as environments for socialization, social control and social change. (Same course as ED 2162). This course meets the multicultural/international requirement. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 or 1600 and PSY 1400, or permission of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically This course will examine customs, attitudes and beliefs, and rituals associated with death, dying, and bereavement. Emphasis will be placed death and dying in the developmental cycle of the individual and in a social-cultural context. (Same course as PSY 2220). Prerequisite: Any 1000-level Sociology or Psychology course.
-
3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Women are the majority of caregivers and patients in the current health care system. This course will discuss the various forces - historical, political, sociological, economic, biological, and psychological - that create and maintain women’s utilization of, and service to, the American health care system. Among the topics to be investigated are sexism in health care, health and safety for women in the workplace, socialization of females as patients and health workers, nurses’ efforts to gain autonomy, and some women’s health issues. (Same course as NSG 2230, WS 2230). Prerequisite: SOC 1000 or 1600 or permission of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between race, gender and social justice. Examines women and minoirites as actors, activitsts, clients, and recipients within the justice system. Considers issues of law and public policy, crime and social control, democracy and equality, and the administration of justice. (same course as CJ 2300). Prerequisite: 1000-level SOC course.
-
3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Focuses on the development of the context of social welfare in American society. The course introduces students to social welfare concepts, policies, and organizations through the study of historical developments in our service delivery system. It provides an over- view of laws, entitlement programs, and services in relation to social needs, problems, and goals. The role of social work as a profession within the social welfare system and its relationship to other systems in the community at large are explored. In addition, the political, economic, and social context of policy evolution will be critically examined. Prerequisite: Any 1000-level Sociology course
-
3.00 Credits
Examines the problem of domestic violence from the perspectives of victims, law enforcement, the courts, and health/mental health professionals. Intervention strategies reviewed and programs for batterers assessed. (Same course as CJ 2402). Prerequisite: 1000-level PSY or SOC course.
-
3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Introduces students to the systems model, which enables them to view individuals in relation to family, social network, and community. The student will develop basic interviewing, assessment, relationship building, and goal-setting skills. The theoretical value-based and skill-oriented learning will be integrated using case studies. Students will learn to plan intervention strategies. Prerequisites: Any 1000-level Sociology course.
-
3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Develops intervention skills in small groups, advocacy, and community organization. Methods and skills designed to help both the group as a whole and individual members are explored and analyzed. The course also provides an introduction to community, organizational analysis, and intervention. Locally based organizing and social planning techniques are studied. Prerequisite: Any 1000-level Sociology course.
-
3.00 Credits
Periodically Examines biological and sociological research on sex and gender. Two main questions will be studied: 1) Biology is destiny: scientific fact or socio-cultural bias? 2) How are men and women similar and/or different, and what are the origins of these similarities and differences? (Same course as BIOL 2452,WS 2452). . Prerequisites: SOC 1000 or 1600and SCI 1010 or SCI 1020 or one course in biology, or permission of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters Examines the place of theory and methods in the discipline of sociology. Students are introduced to a variety of research methods, quantitative and qualitative, descriptive surveys, and field studies. Traditional cases from sociological and criminal justice field research will be considered. (Same course as CJ 2600). Prerequisites: MATH 1150 and any 1000-level Sociology or Criminal Justice course.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|