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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow (next offered Spring 2010) This course offers an examination of juvenile delinquency as a social construction and traces the development of the juvenile-justice system. Social theories of delinquency are analyzed, along with major intervention strategies. Issues of race, social class, and gender that often color our ideas of delinquent behavior are considered. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically annually (next offered spring 2010) An examination of the role that culture plays in shaping the way human beings live in different societies. Emphasis on the variety of cultural knowledge that people use to give meaning to life, to understand one another, and to organize their behavior. Social Science Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) The sociological study of social class, status, and power. This course examines individual and structural explanations for the generation and maintenance of inequality in the United States, and the influence of stratification on individuals and groups. Topics include theories of stratification; correlates of social position for the upper class, middle class, working class, and the poor; social mobility; and functions/dysfunctions of social inequality. In contrast to race and gender stratification, this course focuses on social-class stratification in particular. A major goal of the course is to understand the significance of social class where before it may have been invisible. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 100 or PSY 100 or CFS 130 AND GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) An examination of the behaviors and expectations of being male and female and the resulting relationships among men and women across the life cycle. Attention is given to current issues of gender roles and socialization, the family, education, employment, social class, and dynamics of social change. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 100 and GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) An examination of the conditions under which deviance is defined and changes over time; how people come to define some persons as different, dangerous and/or immoral; how persons respond to being so defined; and the role of social control agents in the definition of deviance and the treatment of the deviant. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One introductory ECO, HIS, PSC, or SOC course Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow (next offered Spring 2010) This course is a study of the history, demography, social structure, and forces promoting social change in the Appalachian rural community. The student will learn a sociological approach to understanding the concept of community, its various systems, institutions, and groups. A community problem-analysis orientation will be followed. While studying the community in Appalachia, other community studies--American, European, and Third World--will be examined for comparative purposes, looking at content and method. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion or waiver of MAT 012; and SOC 100; OR permission of instructor Offered: Typically every Fall Term In this course, the way to convert ideas from other Sociology courses into testable hypotheses will be studied. It includes examining various types of research, research design, and methods of collecting data. The student will find and evaluate sociological materials, use descriptive statistics and computers as tools in organizing information, and write a research proposal. Practical Reasoning (PR). 1 Course Credit
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Successful completion of both Practical Reasoning with Quantitative Emphasis (PRQ) and the Social Science Perspective Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow (next offered Fall 2009) This course provides a basic introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics as used in social-science research. It assumes no previous experience with statistics. Students will learn how social scientists use statistics to describe social phenomena; compute and interpret basic statistics both by hand and using SPSS software; apply the logic of hypothesis testing; and generate and interpret figures and tables. The course will meet 4 hours per week. NOTE: Noncredit for anyone with credit in PSY 305. 1 Course Credit
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