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2.00 Credits
The Regents' Writing Skills course is intended to ensure that all graduates of USG institutions possess certain minimum skills in writing. Students learn to evaluate their own writing strengths and weaknesses and work on improving their writing skills so that they are able to write an essay meeting the Regents' criteria. (S/U grading.) ?
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0.00 Credits
Required of all sociology majors in their first semester after entering the sociology program. Issues to be presented include: benefits of a sociology degree (i.e., what you can do with a degree in sociology), tips on studying, referencing and writing styles (i.e., A.P.A. style), the utility of internships, student/faculty collaboration in research, the Sociology Club, the honors program, graduate school, community outreach, and general academic policies. S/U grading.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamental ideas and concepts of contemporary sociology. Provides a firm background for those who plan to do advanced work in sociology, and for those who wish to have just a sampling, it is a corrective to common sense understanding of modern society. Topics include human cultures and groups, socialization, conformity and non-conformity, social stratification, structure, order, conflict and change, and the major institutions, including economy, education, family, polity, and religion.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOCI 1101. Analysis of family life and kinship structures in the U.S. and cross-culturally; marriage, husband/wife and parent/child relations; transformations of family and kinship in industrial societies. .
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101. Required for Sociology Majors. Emphasis on the interaction between the individual and the situation. Topics include conformity and non-conformity, cognitive and moral development, the role of language, and the development of the social self.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101. The psychological and social implications to the individual of participation in a given occupation, the means by which occupations and professions affect societal stability and change, and the significance of professional versus nonprofessional status.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101. Explore theoretical questions and methodological concerns about modernization and the phenomena of industrial development, the social implications of development on the status of women in African societies, and the significance of women's grassroots organizations versus government organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101. Focuses on the individual who violates social and legal norms and the consequences for both the individual and the society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101 or CRJU 1105 with a grade of C or better. This course will examine the various types of domestic abuse within a sociological framework. Types of interpersonal abuse presented will include child abuse (e.g., physical abuse, verbal/psychological abuse, sexual abuse, etc.), spouse abuse (e.g., physical abuse, verbal/psychological abuse, and including spousal rape), elder abuse (e.g., physical abuse, verbal/psychological abuse, exploitation and financial abuse, etc.), and rape (including date rape). Students will explore interpersonal abuse while learning about the social and cultural forces that perpetuate the abuse (e.g., cultures of violence, gender roles, rape-prone cultures and climates, etc.). Finally, students will be exposed to social policy as it relates to interpersonal abuse and a topical view of various intervention techniques being employed to reduce incidents of interpersonal abuse.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 1101. Ways in which race and ethnic factors such as religion and national origin relate to family, education, and power.
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