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4.00 Credits
Identical to SPAN-UA 755. Offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced research course in Latino studies, which culminates in each student completing an extended research paper that makes use of various methodological skills. Students work individually and collaboratively on part of a class research project pertaining to the major in Latino studies. Majors take this course in the fall of their senior year.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisites: 3.65 GPA or higher (both overall and in the major) and permission of the department. Offered in the fall.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prerequisites: Senior Honors Seminar (SCA-UA 92), 3.65 GPA or higher (both overall and in the major), and permission of the department. Offered in the spring.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the field of sociology: its basic concepts, theories, and research orientation. Threshold course that provides the student with insights into the social factors in human life. Topics include social interaction, socialization, culture, social structure, stratification, political power, deviance, social institutions, and social change.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the nature of sociological theory and the value of and problems in theorizing. Provides a detailed analysis of the writings of major social theorists since the 19th century in both Europe and America: Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Mead, Parsons, Merton, Goffman, Habermas, Giddens, Alexander, and Bourdieu. Law, Deviance, and Criminology
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4.00 Credits
The media and mass communication in social context. Deals primarily with contemporary American media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and film. Formal and informal patterns of media control, content, audiences, and effect. The persuasive power of the media, the role of the media in elections, and the effects on crime and violence. Does not deal with instructional media or aesthetic criticism.
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4.00 Credits
The theory and methodology of the study of modern societies and their major components. Examines several modern societies with different cultural backgrounds as case studies with respect to the theories and propositions learned. Attempts to synthesize sociologically the nature of modernity and its implications for the individual, his or her society, and the world. Social Policy and Social Problems
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4.00 Credits
The major racial, religious, and nationality groups in the United States. The social meaning of the concept "race." Emphasizing social and cultural factors, the course discusses leading theories on sources of prejudice and discrimination. Considers the changing place of minority groups in the stratification structure, cultural patterns of various minority groups, factors affecting the degree of acculturation and assimilation, social consequences of prejudice for dominant and minority groups, and theories and techniques relating to the decline of prejudice and discrimination.
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