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2.00 Credits
Perform secretarial and medical assistant responsibilities in private physicians' offices, hospitals, and medical laboratories. Cultivation of desirable personal traits and attitudes of the medical office assistant. Office projects include case histories, medical reports, filing systems, and recordkeeping. Development of skill in transcribing medical reports. Prerequisites: , KEY 13, WPR 11, or department permission. Corequisites: BIO 47.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to equip students with the ability to perform efficiently in their role as administrative assistants and as members of an office team by learning the role of support staff. Topics include prioritizing work assignments; managing time and stress; planning meetings and conferences; making travel arrangements; and integrating technologies that have increased office productivity. Projects requiring the analysis of data and development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills will be incorporated into the course. Prerequisites: COM 31, KEY 12
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3.00 Credits
Characteristics of American ethnic minorities and religious groups, including theories explaining prejudice and discrimination. Intergroup relations, with particular reference to the New York metropolitan area, and techniques for relieving problems in human relations. Prerequisite: SOC 11.
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3.00 Credits
Sociology of the City
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of the family as a social institution. Evolution of form and functions of the family and how its structure is shaped by forces in society. Significance of family as a socialization agent, courtship and the romantic love complex, women's roles and changing family structure, minority culture families in American society and consideration of the future of the family. Prerequisite: SOC 11.
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3.00 Credits
Explores what is regarded as deviant within a society, with emphasis on criminality and mental illness. Deviance from the perspective of the deviant, e.g., the process by which the initial deviance becomes a career or master status. Deviance from the perspective of society, its social structure, norms and sanctions relevant to deviance, and functions or dysfunctions served by those committing acts of deviance. Prerequisite: SOC 11.
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3.00 Credits
Nature of social work and its functions; family casework, child welfare, psychiatric and medical social work, correctional services, public welfare and community welfare organizations. Prerequisite: SOC 11 or PSY 11 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines social inequality as it impinges on concrete lives of people in society, with focus on American society. Deals with social stratification, social class, status, race, ethnicity, gender, prejudice and discrimination. Prerequisite: SOC 11 or permission of department.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to roles and problems of advocates in the social services system; nature, need and processes of advocacy; legal administrative aspects of social services programs (social security, welfare, family court); advocating rights of special groups (handicapped, poor, youth, aged). Prerequisite: POL 11 or SOC 11 or department permission.
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3.00 Credits
Not taught on a regular basis. Course descriptions available upon request.
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