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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Sociology 101 and completion the General Education Category III.C.1. This course explores the development, patterns, structures, and consequences of social inequality, with emphasis on social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. Dynamics of resistance and social change are also discussed. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. Examines the development and current conditions of minority/majority relations through study of social, political and economic causes and consequences of prejudice and discrimination. Evolutionary and revolutionary movements for change will be studied. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. Dying as a social process; functions of bereavement behavior; the grief process; fear of death and dying; death related rituals, demographic aspects of mortality; American death acceptance-denial controversy. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. Population composition, growth and movement. Social factors affecting birth rates, death rates and migration. Environmental and resource base implications of population growth, urbanization and migration. The role of the economy, poverty, gender and development on population dynamics also discussed. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. Examines the relationship between a society and its laws using sociological theory and major concepts. Includes analysis of court process, legal professions, and related social institutions. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. The ecology, patterns of growth, institutional inequalities, social problems, cultures, and organized resistances of urban communities in global contexts. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. Study of the sociological aspects of sexualities, socio-historical and comparative perspectives; relationships of sexual constructs to life cycle, gender, race, class, nation and power. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101. For those interested in contemporary issues of family violence: victims, perpetrators and societal responses. Explores causes, intervention and prevention of all types of abuse-child, sibling, spouse, parent and elder-through the examination of theories, research findings and practical field application. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Sociology 101 and 466. Sociological examination of sexual abuse in contemporary society, specifically patterns of forcible rape and child sexual victimization. Presentation of theories and research findings regarding causes, consequences and other dynamics of sexual victimization, including responses of social groups to such victimization. Units: 3
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisite: Sociology 101 or upper-division standing. The main schools of sociological thought, both European and American. Systems of theory, methodology of theorists, cultural change and social institutions. One or more sections offered online. Units: 3
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