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3.00 Credits
This course employs a sociological perspective to examine the institution of family on micro and macro levels, including historical and international comparisons. Research findings are used to understand such aspects of the institution as diversity, gender roles, love, and changing patterns of relationships. Processes involved in the selection of a marriage partner, living as a couple, and parenting is explored, along with family crises, such as violence and divorce. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the aging process from a bio-psychosocial perspective. Students will examine the many social constructs that influence identity formation, institutional structures, social policies, and adaptive resources that impact upon the elders in every society. Special attention focuses on elder diversity within both present and historical contexts, while providing insight into the evolving roles of gender, race/ethnicity, class and other social forces. Prerequisite: SOC 2301 and GER 2401.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of a major field of social work practice and services available to families who cannot completely care for their children. These include both public and private services designed to substitute for, supplement or support parents' care of their children. Topics include adoption, foster care, homemakers, child abuse, neglect and child-caring institutions. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of individual and collective behavior in relation to various social and cultural influences. The ways in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by other individuals, groups, and social structures are examined. Topics include socialization and the self, attitudes, conformity, communication, interpersonal attraction, aggression, and helping. Students may not receive credit for PSY 3307 in addition to this course. Prerequisites: SOC 2301, PSY 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a survey of both social and cultural anthropology. The cross-cultural analytical approach will be utilized in order to explore the universal importance of the relationship of personality to culture. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses the "sociological imagination" to explore health belief systems, the meaning of wellness,health, illness, disease and the role of health care delivery in modern society. Using an ecological perspective students consider issues ranging from competing and cross-cultural perceptions about health, where wellness ends and illness begins, to the sometimes wide gulf that separates the individual's pursuit of quality of life from the structure of rationalized medicine. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
In this course a survey is made of populations as they are influenced by demographic and ecological factors; population analysis and composition and growth in selected societies. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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3.00 Credits
Studied in this course are formation and changes of American social groups and the works of various intellectuals from colonial times through the Civil War. Students may not receive credit for both SOC 3335 and HIS 3335.
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3.00 Credits
Studied in this course are the changes in American society and the ideas of various intellectuals, from the Civil War to the present. Students may not receive credit for both SOC 3336 and HIS 3336.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to a variety of sociological theoretical perspectives, many of which form the basis for ongoing empirical research into contemporary social problems. Course content focuses on alternative ways of thinking about social institutions and processes. Prerequisite: SOC 2301.
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