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3.00 Credits
Sports as a social institution, including professionalization, labor relations, the Olympics, and other issues from a sociological perspective. Interactions with other institutions such as the economy, politics, and religion. Socialization, gender, race, and deviance within sports. The historical significance of sports as an American and international institution. Faculty.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
How modern culture and institutions have been changed by access to the Internet; new forms of communications; the World Wide Web; effects of instant access, anonymity, and new concepts of gender, race, and class, on human thinking, learning, and norms. Taught in computer-equipped classroom. Faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Using postmodern, modern, and traditional media theory, examines critical and contested issues in the emerging world of online media and computer-mediated communication known collectively as "cybermedia". Topics include privacy and encryption, regulation and free speech, authentication and censorship, jurisdiction and liability, copyright and ownership of content, story cycle issues, access, criminal speech/behavior, and the interaction of cybermedia with traditional media. Faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Deals with the social world in a systematic and semantic way. Students will learn how major sociological theories deal with issues of human nature, social change, and the limits to social knowledge. Examines classical concepts of power, class, and culture. Critical evaluation of modern and post-modern theories.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to social psychology, the scientific study of human social influence and interaction. We will examine the various ways people think about, affect, and relate to one another. Topices covered include the social self-concept, social judgment, attitudes, persuasion, conformity, aggression, helping behavior, prejudice, and interpersonal relationships.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Controlling America¿s Borders is an undergraduate level course that will examine the many national security, law enforcement, diplomatic, economic, environmental, social and cultural issues surrounding border control, or lack thereof. Included in the course will be a discussion of border control policy, including theory, practical application, and effects. Heavy emphasis will be placed on research into the issues of unlawful immigration and national security as it relates to border control. Particular attention will be paid to the various government agencies responsible for controlling the border, with a focus on the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security within the Department of Homeland Security. The course will also address the practicalities of resolving competing pressures such as reducing risk of attack while minimizing cost, facilitating trade, and protecting civil liberties.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of theories and causes of crime, deviance, and social control. Within the context of theories of crime and deviance, and the perspective of Catholic thought, we will examine types of deviant behavior, the nature and organization of societal reactions, and the processes of personal attribution and the social redefinition of deviance and/or institutional change, through classic cases such as colonial witch hunts and contemporary cases such as homosexual marriage and religious terrorism.
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