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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Explores ways in which institution of education supports and obstructs student's transition into private and public spheres. Examines way structural factors such as class, race and gender operate to encourage and limit academic success throughout academic career. Special emphasis on students critically examining their own educational biography while working toward constructing innovative educational curricula based on their academic experiences and Christian mandates. (Alternate years. Not offered 2008-09.)
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4.00 Credits
Introduces and critiques assumptions, methods and theoretical insights of sociological study of religion. Emphasizes social context of religious behavior and beliefs, role of religion in social change, and development of new religious movements. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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2.00 Credits
Examines theoretical and conceptual issues, empirical research and social policies related to issues of human sexuality. Explores cultural, religious, biological and historical factors that contribute to formation and expression of sexuality. Contemporary issues in human sexuality including sexual orientation, sexual coercion and commercial sex discussed. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Explores way femininity and masculinity have been informed by cultural practices throughout American history. Utilizes research from journalism, social science, women's studies, and psychoanalysis to explore how certain behaviors and attitudes assumed to be naturally feminine or masculine are actually result of socialization. Grapples with implications of Christian faith for gender identity in contemporary American society. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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4.00 Credits
Examines social change and continuity, development and underdevelopment in non-Western societies. Addresses impact of colonialism, modernity and globalization on cultures of these societies. Evaluates theories and models for development and modernization from Christian perspective. Prerequisites: SOC101 and ECB201 or POL106.
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4.00 Credits
Explores how members of different intellectual traditions and academic disciplines have understood and explained racial difference throughout American history. Examines how trends in theology, philosophy, literature, biology, anthropology and social sciences have contributed to construction and transformation of concept of race. Analyzes specifi c historical events (i.e., Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, African- American neoconservatism in the 1990s) to reveal how racial categories have been erected, resisted and reconfi gured. Prerequisites: SOC101, 232.
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4.00 Credits
Explores various cross-cultural perspectives on gender in contemporary lives of women. Examines impact of traditional social systems on social and economic development of women, and addresses women's critiques and suggestions for democratic social change. Incorporates current multidisciplinary research on gender. Prerequisites: SOC101 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Explores social transformation of American myths, norms and values; emphasizes cultural meanings of work, leisure, community, politics and media; develops critical, Christian perspective on problems and promises of American society.
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3.00 Credits
Various topics covered on rotating basis. Designed for advanced students interested in topic presented. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable if different topic.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys prominent schools of 20thcentury social thought. Links developments in sociological theorizing to broader intellectual trends of period. Perspectives surveyed include phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, functionalism, neo-Marxian theory, structuralism and poststructuralism, feminist theory, and rational-choice theory. Prerequisite: SOC285 or permission of instructor.
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