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Three Credits Spring Semester Course will distinguish between sex and gender and critically examine how social historical meanings about femininity and masculinity are socially constructed, reinforced, and challenged. Considers how gender differences and gender inequality play out in a variety of institutions including education, the economy, the family, politics, religion, the media and medicine. Critical perspectives, including feminist and multi-cultural approaches, will be employed.
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Three Credits Spring Semester The course examines crime and mental illness, including social-psychological theories of crime; co-occurring psychological disorders; problem-solving courts (drug treatment, mental health, and re-entry) comprising the emerging field of "therapeutic jurisprudence";and mentally ill offenders in prison and community settings. Sociological issues of gender, class and race will be discussed wherever relevant.
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Three Credits Fall Semester The prevalence of drug abuse and the types of drugs used in our society will be considered. Special attention will be given to legislation regarding illicit drugs and prevention/intervention strategies. An historical review of Americans' attitudes and practices regarding illicit drugs will be included.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Systematic analysis of major contemporary social problems with focus on their sources, patterns, consequences, and current efforts at intervention and amelioration. Prerequisite: SO 102
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Three Credits Fall Semester Survey of museology that introduces students to the history of museums and debates about their role in society. Through case studies of ethnographic, history, and art museums students will explore the relationships between museums, their missions, those they represent, and the communities in which they reside. Prerequisite: SO 228 (formerly SO 103) or consent on instructor
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Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Study of the theories of society from Comte, Durkeim, Marx, Weber, and other classical theorists, as well as several major contemporary theories, including feminism. Prerequisite: SO 101, plus one additional Sociology course.
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Three Credits Spring Semester An introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical methods as applied to research in sociology. Topics include measures of central tendency, dispersion, hypothesis testing using parametric and nonparametric tests, contingency table analysis, t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used throughout the course. Prerequisite: SO 101 and SO 210 (formerly SO/CJ 306). May not earn credit for both SO/CJ 308 and CJ 311.
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Three Credits Spring Semester An in-depth exploration of qualitative research practices in sociology. Students will study epistemological, theoretical and methodological aspects of qualitative research and engage in hands-on projects utilizing the following methods: content analysis, oral history interview or in-depth interview, and ethnography. Students will also be introduced to cutting-edge qualitative methods including arts-based research practices. Prerequisite: SO 101 and SO 210 (formerly SO/CJ 306)
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Nature and meaning of law. Critical examination of origin of law, structure of legal system, and changing meaning of law. Literature and film are utilized to demonstrate varying theories of how law is developed and for whom it is developed. The concept of "justice" is used in evaluating the effect of lawon the general society. Prerequisite: SO 101.
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Three Credits Fall Semester This course is an exploration of European society and culture from an anthropological perspective. Students will explore some of the following themes: kinship, gender, political anthropology, ethnicity, ritual and religious experience, as well as tourism, multiculturalism, and issues of cultural integrity and integration raised by the creation of the EU. Prerequisite: SO 228 (formerly SO 103) or SO 101
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