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3.00 Credits
Staff. Special topic announced each semester. Note: May be repeated for credit provided it’s a different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 201 or approval of instructor. Survey of theoretical and empirical literature on the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige within and across societies and historical periods. Emphasis is placed on the impact of social change on stratification systems.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Examination of social organization, interaction, issues, and problems via the depiction of these issues and themes in selected commercial and documentary cinematic statements as illustrative material. Weekly class meetings are divided into lecture, screening, and discussion. Specific topical foci differ by semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Devine Cinematic New Orleans explores how the city and culture of New Orleans figure prominently as both a character and context in commercial film by examining the production and reproduction of the city’s culture and its cinematic expression across numerous film genres since the 1930s. Using the lens of ‘Hollywood’ film, issues such as place, identity, race, culture, and their social construction, as well as a broader sociological and historical sense of New Orleans will be investigated.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. An historical examination of the human condition in Latin America emphasizing three primary spheres of social relations: political, economic, and ideological. Within each sphere the following themes are addressed: national-international relations, urbanization, rural social structure, demographic trends, cultural change, and stability.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 201 or approval of instructor. An introduction to the sociological study of organizations in the private and public sectors. Topics include models for studying organizations, organization processes (communication, decision-making, negotiation, leadership), the impact of structural culture, and environmental factors on organizational behavior.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course examines political and economic aspects of global and local environmental problems. Topics include how societies and the environment interact, why some environmental risks have gained most attention, how support for environmental concerns can be measured, responses by environmental social movements, and visions of sustainable societies in the First and Third Worlds.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. An examination of issues involved in everyday social interactions, this course focuses on dimensions of interpersonal behavior against the background of sociological roles and role-playing, Emphasis is placed on the nature and process of interpersonal relationship, encounters, and public behavior against the backdrop of societal assumptions, norms, practices and beliefs. Related issues of affect/emotion, attitudes, cognition and perception will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 201 or approval of instructor. Logic and techniques of social research, the relationships between theory and method, and alternative strategies in data collection.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 303 or approval of instructor. Basic training in descriptive and inferential statistics with social science applications. Topics include measurement, tabular and graphic displays of data, central tendency, dispersion, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression.
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