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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester A survey of major concepts in geography, with an emphasis on an ecological approach to the study of culture and cultural change in a spatial context. Exploration of the ways in which different human groups perceive, organize, and use their space and environment. Topics include culture and the world economy, population, migration, language, religion, social customs, agriculture, industry and urban development.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 This class is a sociological review and analysis of political structure and power. The course will critically analyze: state structures, political parties, power, legitimacy, civil society, and the welfare state.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester The use and abuse of alcohol in different cultures and ethnic groups is examined. Analysis of symptoms, causes, new legislation and treatment modalities concerning alcohol abuse. Special emphasis on the disease concept of alcohol and modern drinking habits.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An examination of juvenile delinquency in American society. Topics included are the historical background and "invention" ofdelinquency, cross-cultural definitions of delinquency, theories of delinquency, social class differences, and the juvenile court system. The course critically examines the social, health, and mental health services which have been utilized by this society in attempts to prevent or "treat" delinquentbehavior. Prerequisites: SO 101 and SO/CJ 201.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Introduction to human service organization and methods. Methods, such as individual, group, and family counseling, community organization, social planning, and human service research, are considered. Organization of services into programs to address problems of child abuse, the elderly, mental illness, alcoholism, drug abuse, and crime, among others. Prerequisite: SO 101.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Principles and concepts; systematic analysis of groups, institutions, social interaction, socialization, social processes, social structure, culture, personality and social changes.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits Fall Semester An examination of concepts of marriage and family as social institutions from a cross-cultural perspective. Drawing on both classic and contemporary essays as well as in-depth ethnographic studies of marriage and family in several different cultures, we will examine the way in which intimate relationships are construed in different societies.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Examination of the history of social thought around three themes: (1) crises of the world, (2) conflict between groups within a society and conflict between societies, and (3) social control mechanisms ranging from global military intervention to the subtle manipulation of opinion within a society. May not earn credit for both SO 173 and SO 232.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 An overview of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, the study of the relationship between language, culture, and society. The nature of human language will be explored by studying language in a variety of social contexts with the goal of better understanding how language and culture interact to reflect, maintain, alter, and create social worlds in which we live.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Immigration, history, patterns of intergroup relations, modes of adaptation, social, economic, and political conditions, and contributions of selected racial and ethnic communities: The English and the Anglo-Saxons; Irish Americans; Italian Americans; Jewish Americans; Native Americans; African-Americans; Latino and Hispanic Americans; and Asian Americans.
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