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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on education as a social institution and an agent of socialization. The formal organization of education, education and the family, education and social stratification, and education as a vehicle for examining and solving social problems are explored. Prerequisite: SO 110
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Focuses on the social nature of illness in contemporary society, the changing health care system and the ethical issues raised by advances in medical technology. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes criminal behavior, including a review of theories of crime causation, society's efforts to cope with criminal behavior and the public perceptions of crime. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
Explores the creation of deviance, the process of becoming deviant and society's reactions to such issues as civil disorder, crime, mental illness, addiction and sexual deviance. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
The course analyzes youth as a stage in life made both promising and problematic by contemporary social structure and culture. Attention is given to the origins and forms of youthful conformity and achievement as well as misconduct and crime, with an emphasis on how those issues differ by gender, social class, race/ethnicity, and variations in the organizations and social institutions that constitute the context of daily life for youth. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis is on human diversity. This course is designed to give students an understanding of the conditions that lead to minority emergence and the consequence of minority status; it fosters acceptance of diversity, cultural pluralism, and social change. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
This course (1) identifies what kinds of changes have been occurring in the size, composition, and geographic distribution of human populations at the local, national and global levels; (2) analyzes the impacts those changes have been exerting on social patterns; and (3) develops basic skills for studying those changes and impacts. Focuses on birth and fertility rates, death rates, migration rates, and changes in specific aspects of populations: size, age, sex ratio, socioeconomic status, and cultural heritage/identity. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
This course shows how to use statistics for specific purposes in social research and how to interpret the results of statistical analysis. Attention is given to distributions, central tendency, dispersion, estimates, inference, hypothesis testing, statistical significance, measuring the presence, strength, and direction of relationships between variables, analysis of variance, chi-square analysis, and correlation and regression analysis. Prerequisites: SO 110 and C or better in MA 101 or higher level Mathematics course; to be taken prior to SO 383
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis is on the emerging regional subsystems of the world social system, and the consequences of this change on the processes of interaction among these subsystems and their interaction with the developing countries. Prerequisite: SO 110
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3.00 Credits
Major socioeconomic developments in 21st-century capitalism (e.g., consumer culture, global labor market, media empires) are studied. The persistence of inequality and poverty, fragmentation of family and community, unhealthy constructions of self-image, and other social problems are explained in terms of these developments. Prerequisite: SO 110
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