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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the socialization of women into the female sex role. Examines the traditionally female roles in marriage and the family. Explores economic and political roles women have played in American society during the colonial and frontier periods, slavery, the abolitionist movements, the trade union movement, and the women's rights and suffrage movements. Concludes with a study of current women's groups and their different ideologies, concerns, and platforms for change.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces sources of information about health and the agencies and services available for the health of children, families, and communities. Health areas discussed include nutrition, pediatrics, prenatal care, family planning, health insurance, mental health, occupational health, and such environmental concerns as lead poisoning and air and water pollution.
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3.00 Credits
Studies aging people and the world around them. Examines elderly peoples' social lives, societal roles, personal adjustments, dependence, independence, and how society responds to their needs. A field project may be assigned in which students participate in a community activity involving the elderly.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the nutritional needs and special problems during various stages of the life cycle from infancy to old age. Includes presentations by professionals and others involved in the preparation and planning of nutritional programs; major emphasis is placed on the nutritional needs of the elderly and counseling techniques appropriate to elderly people.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes majority-minority group relations. Uses examples of experiences in the United States of such groups as African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, Asian Americans, Americans of European origins, and political, religious, and sexual minorities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the philosophy, methods, and problems of environmental sociology. Emphasizes sustainability, the affects of social arrangements on humanity's interaction with the environment, population control, endangered species, and ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces change-agent skills and the skills needed for conducting elementary research projects. Students must design and execute a change project and carry out a number of field projects. Develops data gathering skills, skills in designing data gathering tools, and methods of strategy evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
Presents an overview of the economic systems, history, and social-cultural dimensions of the countries of the Caribbean Basin, focusing on the island-nations of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico). Also examines the ever-evolving relationship between the United States and the Caribbean, including issues of migration.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes social stratification in large urban centers, emphasizing sociological, economic, and racial differences. Considers the role of conflict as it affects group relations. Examines social disorder and the law, the problems of life in the ghetto, the role of power, racial ideology, and social changes. Considers the future of large cities and population movements.
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3.00 Credits
Presents the essentials of grammar and reading with practice in speaking and writing basic Spanish. Develops conversational skills. Open to students with little or no experience in Spanish. ( Native speakers of Spanish are strongly discouraged from registering for this course.)
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