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Three Credits Fall Semester An introduction to the aims, goals, and practice of field archaeology, and the nature of archaeological evidence. Students will study the history of archaeological excavation, and the variety of field methods used by archaeologists. During the final portion of the course, students will excavate model archaeological sites.
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Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This course provides a broad overview of sociological and interdisciplinary theories of criminal behavior and social control. Students learn how to analyze theories and research on crime for the purpose of advancing theory as well as developing policies for crime prevention and control. Not open to first-year students in their first semester.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Globalization is shrinking the world. How and why did this happen? This course will explore global change and the global processes which effect political, economic, and cultural realms. Important topics include: globalization and the state, global politics, the global economy and inequality, and globalization's homogenizing and diversifying effects.
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Three Credits Spring Semester Particular stress is placed on basic structure of American prisons - their purposes and their effects. Focal questions include: Who goes to prison? What happens to those imprisoned? What happens to those released from prison? Prison policy development and implementation with regards to current criminological theory and research and current public opinion are discussed as a central concluding theme. Prerequisite: SO 101 or SO/CJ 201.
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Three Credits Spring Semester Concepts of marriage and family as social institutions; intimate relationships; human sexuality; roles, functions, change, and problems of American family.
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Three Credits Fall Semester A survey of quantitative and qualitative research methods employed in sociology. Topics include problem selection and definition, the relationship between theory and practice, literature review, research design, ethical issues, sampling, data collection, analysis, interpretation and representation. Research methods considered include surveys, experiments, content analysis, interviewing, ethnography, and multi-method research. Prerequisite: SO 101. May not earn credit for both SO/CJ 306 and SO 210.
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Three Credits Spring Semester Discussion of basic theories and methods used by sociologists to understand religious phenomena. Consideration of the special problems of religious groups in various cultural settings.
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Three Credits Spring Semester This course presents a comparison of the treatment of criminals by Native and Non-Native cultures. The history of criminal treatment in Anglo-American society is contrasted with the traditions of Native peoples in addressing those members who commit crimes against the community. Topics include sovereignty, religious use of peyote, banishment, return of sacred artifacts to native tribes, and the exclusion of Native religious practices in American prisons. Prerequisite: SO 101 or SO/CJ 201.
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Three Credits Fall Semester This course integrates two major bodies of sociological research and theoretical perspectives: sociology of work and sociology of gender. The focus is a contemporary analysis of the working lives and experiences of women and men in the United States, as well as within an international context. We will look at paid work as well as undocumented workers, voluntary work, child care and housework, and caring work.
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Three Credits Fall Semester This course examines American popular culture as a site of cultural politics and explores representations of race, gender, sexuality and "success" that permeate ourcultural space. Through a critical interrogation of a variety of pop culture forms, students will consider how norms and values are challenged, resisted, transformed and created through pop culture.
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