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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This course defines the relationship of the workplace to the community and examines the historical development and relevance of social and economic matters crucial to a healthy perspective for employers and employees.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Introduces students to the concept and origins of popular culture and to social theories used by academics to analyze its impact on self and culture in modern consumer societies. Topics include mass media, TV, the internet, video games, sports, leisure, fashion, celebrity, shopping, advertising, and youth culture.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This course will introduce the students to the major aspects of Arab culture, civilization, and history from pre-Islamic times to the present. Social composition of the Arab world and the issue of national identity will be stressed. The transformation of Arabic society will be considered in this course.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) An expansive overview of world consciousness, drawing upon the significant, creative contributions of men and women from varied cultures and different fields of learning. Emphasizes the approach of comparative synthesis. Studies the world's outstanding creative thinkers and the interconnectedness of their works.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: SOC 100 and ENG 100/101) Employs "the sociological imagination" to exploreissues of health, illness and medical practice. It examines the social contexts of physical and mental health, illness and medical care and gives prominence to the debates and contrasting perspectives which characterize the field of medical sociology. Exploring the social, environmental, and occupational factors in health and disease, the development of health professions and the health care workforce, doctor patient relationships, the structure and processes of health care organizations, health care and social change, it is designed for students interested in the organization and analysis of health care in the U.S.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) A critical examination of the complex relationship between film and society. Emphasizes the importance of locating the meaning of film texts within social and historical perspectives. Explores the relationship between film and technology, the impact of narrative and the institution of Hollywood upon the sociological imagination.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This course will briefly introduce students to the history of film in China prior to 1949, with a focus on the Shanghai scene, while the bulk of the course will concentrate on the development of film in the People's Republic of China since that time. Attention also to will be given to influences of pre-1949 film and Hong Kong and Taiwan film and TV on the development of post-1976 cinematography and television in China, detailing the move away from political propaganda-based film and TV and the increasing importance of market-driven (both domestic and international) entertainment values.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Examines the institutions of marriage and family structures and their historical development. Topics include kinship, changing gender roles, changing family forms, divorce, domestic violence, economic structure.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: English 100/101) This course will introduce the students to the major aspects of modern Chinese culture since 1949. The changing social composition and the development of a modern popular culture since 1976 will be closely examined, as will the transformation of Chinese society from Maoist conformity to the cultural pluralism of today, as well as the new social problems these changes have brought.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: SOC 100 and ILR 260) This course examines the foundational theories that have engaged major social theorists. It analyzes the cultural, social, economic, political, intellectual, and biographical contexts within which they developed; and it appraises the extent to which they continue to inform sociological research and thinking.
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