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3.00 Credits
The course analyzes the nature and types of juvenile behavior that violate the law. Students study issues such as socialization, deviant roles, social processes, the special attributes of youth, and historical attitudes toward childhood and adolescence. Topics include family juvenile court, correctional institutions, causes of delinquency, the female delinquent, and prevention and treatment of delinquency.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines various aspects of crime from the perspective of the sociologist. The course emphasizes social structure/social process theories of social disorganization and crime causation. Other topics include the history of criminology, the nature and extent of crime, the measurement of crime, criminal typologies, public order crime, victims, and victimization. Prerequisite: Principles of Psychology (PSY101) or Principles of Sociology (SOC101).
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3.00 Credits
This course demonstrates the way that the basic concepts and techniques developed by cultural anthropologists help us understand various cultures and intercultural relations. Through ethnographic readings and films, students learn about kinship, gender, ethnicity, religion, and social change in a variety of cultures. The course increases awareness of cultural dimensions of human experience and the diversity and flexibility of human cultures. The course meets General Education "Individual and Society" Requirement Area 2. Prerequisite: Academic Reading III(ESL098) or Reading Skills II (RDG095) or co-enrollment in integrated courses or exemption from reading requirement by placement testing.
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3.00 Credits
Presented in four basic sections, this course covers an introduction to the field of physical anthropology, genetics, human evolution, and evolution of behavior. Module topics include the background of physical anthropology; man in the natural world; practical genetics; classification within the human species; homo sapiens; homo erectus; the Australopithecines; evolution review; what was before man; evolution of behavior; where do we go from here? This course is offered through the Center for Self-Directed Learning only.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines psychological and sociological factors related to the dynamics of family life. The course covers the process of the growth and adjustment of each family member as the family structure changes. Students discuss the historical, contemporary, and future family. Prerequisite: one introductory Behavioral Science course.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course examines issues dealing with homosexuality from the perspective of the sociologist. The course emphasizes the essentialist/constructionist debate; facts and myths about homosexuality; the influence of prejudice and discrimination on the lives of gay men, lesbians and their families; and the homosexual culture/community/lifestyle. Other topics include coming out issues, development of gay and lesbian identities, the needs of a gay family member, gay history, gay spirituality, the AIDS crisis, and the gay liberation movement and its impact on contemporary culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores issues of color, gender, class, and caste as they exit in contemporary American society. The impact of "hate" groups on American life and culture will be exploredthrough the concept of "difference" and the ideas of superiority and inferiority. Topics to bediscussed include racism, sexism, multiculturalisms and Eurocentrism. Prerequisite: Principles of Sociology (SOC101) or Principles of Psychology (PSY101), or Cultural Anthropology (SOC109).
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3.00 Credits
This course deciphers the explicit and implicit message contained in films that has to do with the organization and structure of culture and society from the past to the present. The course covers the idea that, like all art forms, films are created in a social context and express a particular point of view through the characters, themes, motifs, and visual styles they embody.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on detailed cross-sectional anatomy as it relates to sonographic imaging. This study of serial sectional anatomy helps sonographic students gain knowledge of the human body needed for the practical application of ultrasound. In class scanning will occur on a routine basis. Prerequisite: Admission to General Sonography Program. Co-requisite: Anatomy/Physiology/Lab II (BIO204).
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3.00 Credits
This course familiarizes the student with interpretation of normal and abnormal sonographic findings of the abdominal cavity. Related scanning techniques and associated Color Flow and Doppler are described. Sonographic/medical terminology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and associated laboratory findings as they relate to abdominal sonography will be covered. Prerequisite: Cross-Sectional Anatomy (SON113). Co-requisite: General Sonography Clinical I (SON121).
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