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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Examination of critical contemporary social problems and social policy options. Emphasis is placed on understanding the multidimensional sources of crisis, unrest, and instability as well as policy options and tradeoffs associated with ameliorative efforts. Topics vary by semester and instructor.
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Staff. Introduces students to the profession and practice of social work. Examines principles, functions, knowledge base, and history of social work. Topics include the change process, levels of practice, and social problems affecting clients and practitioners.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Introduces students to sociological study of religious phenomena, including religious beliefs, practices, and behaviors as conditioned by sociological factors. A key emphasis is the relationship between religious systems and other social institutions, e.g., politics, family, economy, and social stratification.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Emphasizes the public’s perception of “the crime problem†and various sociological measures of amounts and trends of criminal behavior in society. Causal and noncausal theories of criminality, and the sociological implications of various selected offenses are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. An analysis of the structure and functions of sports in contemporary American society. Topics include the relationship between sports, socialization, ideology, sports and totemism, the organization of sports, and the economics of sports.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course will provide a sociological introduction to America’s rapidly growing Asian American populations and to the major issues facing these populations. (Same as ASTA 146.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Examines global change and its implications for individuals and groups via exploration of issues of globalization of the economy, international development, urbanization, immigration, social movements, changing gender relations, etc. Emphasis will be placed on how such changes have come about and course focus will be international in scope with emphasis on Latin America, Asia, and/or Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Examines the concepts of occupations, professions, and work organizations. It considers issues about employee selection, job involvement, alienation, satisfaction, performance, and compensation; industrial mental health, occupation safety, health and medicine; social conditions of work in bureaucratic organizations, work groups and union membership; supervision and human resource management; and the changing conditions of work resulting from technological change, social change, shifts in the occupational structure and the interface of work with other institutions such as the family.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: Three credits of sociology at the 100 level or approval of instructor. To provide substantive exposure to basic sociological concepts, theories, methods, and tools.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 201 or approval of instructor. An examination of the dynamic relationship between population and society. The course focuses on the contemporary demography of developed and developing countries, with an emphasis on societal problems linked to population.
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