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3.00 Credits
Explores ways in which preparing, eating, and thinking about food demonstrate culturally determined gender and power relations in various societies around the world. Examines various understandings of issues such as nutrition, eating disorders, body images, and gender differences around food using a cross-cultural perspective. Additional prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Prerequisite(s): SO 200 SO 204 AN 204; Cross listing(s): AN 411 WS 411.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a historical and comparative study of social deviance, including definitions of and reactions to deviance, and deviance as collective behavior. Examines various sociological theories of deviance, and social groups and behaviors defined as deviant in the United States and other countries. Additional Prerequisite(s): or Permission of Instructor required. Prerequisite(s): SO 200; Cross listing(s): CJ 416 CR 416.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the social and cultural processes through which we construct our world. Includes the sociology of knowledge, symbolic interactionism, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodolgy, cultural studies and related topics. Prerequisite(s): SO 200;
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3.00 Credits
Provides a critical and comparative analysis of race, ethnicity and other diversity in the United States. Includes racism, creation and maintenance of ethnic group status, political processes and movements for self-determination. Additional Prerequisite(s): or permission of instructor required. Prerequisite(s): SO 200 or SO 203; Cross listing(s): CJ 422 CR 422.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a general overview of Mexican Americans in the United States in contemporary society. Examines the history, culture, and past and present policies that have affected the community. Emphasizes racism, discrimination, prejudice, internal colonialism, split labor market theory, immigration, participation in social movements, and experiences within the various social institutions such as the economy, politics, media, education, and the family. Cross listing(s): AN 423.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the social construction of gender difference and stereotypes in the US and other cultures. Performs critical analysis of biological, sociological, anthropological, historical, and psychological explanations of masculinity and femininity. Includes intersections between gender and ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, friendship, love, work, and disability. Prerequisite(s): AN 204 SO 204 SO 200 SO 203 WS 300; Cross listing(s): WS 424.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a general overview of Native Americans of North America. Examines the history, past and present social policies and treaties, and the American Indian Movement. Explores concepts such as racism, discrimination, prejudice, and internal colonialism. Additional prerequisite(s): or permission of instructor. Prerequisite(s): SO 200 or SO 203;
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3.00 Credits
Explores the multiple, complex and historically changing meanings of the concepts of race and ethnicity in Latin America, and the consequences of discrimination towards specific groups based on these concepts. Regions covered will be the Caribbean, Atlantic Central America, and the Pacific, Atlantic and Andean regions of South America. Salient issues will be covered for each region. Additional Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor. Prerequisite(s): SO 200 SO 204 AN 204; Cross listing(s): AN 426.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between the development of energy resources and environmental conditions. Emphasizes how economic and political ideology and institutions affect our relationship to the Earth. Additional Prerequisite(s): or Permission of Instructor. Prerequisite(s): SO 200 or SO 203; Cross listing(s): ENVS 436 PJ 436.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on African-American social thought and the West African influence from historical, political, sociological and cultural perspectives from pre-1492 to present day. Includes intensive pre-departure seminars, a two-week Ghanaian service-oriented field experience and service in Denver communities. Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Tinansa Program required. Permission of Instructor. Cross listing(s): PJ 439.
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