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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the gay and lesbian experience in American society from pre-Stonewall to present day life. Using a sociological approach, students will explore the development of diverse gay and lesbian identities and communities during the past 30 years, and examine their social, political and cultural implications both inside and outside the gay and lesbian community. Students will examine and discuss the ways in which the gay and lesbian culture has impacted American society, as well as indentify the cultural and political struggles within the gay and lesbian community, and between the gay and straight communitities. Intersections of race and class will also be explored. Prerequisitie: Sophomore standing or above. Offered in 2006 and alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the effects of cultural values, social institutions and sex roles on the lives of women. Analyzes sources of gender inequality, especially in terms of the social construction of gender and sexuality. Examines the intersections of race, class, and sexuality for women. Draws heavily on student participation to integrate personal gender experiences with a base of knowledge about women.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the multiple ways that social processes and culture construct and channel male and female sexual behavior. Students will study social science research on human sexuality, the meanings of sex and gender from a sociological perspective and the cultural mythologies that shape and inform our emotions, behaviors and attititudes.
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4.00 Credits
Explores definitions of health and illness in the United States and other cultures. Analyzes the social, economic, political and cultural factors bearing on health care with emphasis on social structure, formal organization, professionalism and historic development. Enables students to apply the knowledge gained, both professionally and personally.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of important empirical findings and theories for the analysis of systems of social stratification. Reviews the contributions of Marx, Weber and other early scholars. Includes caste, estate and class as alternative stratification systems; the interrelations of class, status and power; and the behavioral and attitudinal consequences of class differences in Modern America. Prerequisite: SO101 or AN120. Offered in 2005.
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4.00 Credits
This course closely examines feminist theories from an analytic and sociological viewpoint. That is, we will look at how feminist thinkers have conceptualized how and why women are positioned as they are in society, and how these ideas have evolved over time and within particular sociopolitical contexts. We will examine the definitional and political issues inherent in “feminism” and what it has come to mean in society. The theories to be studied will include liberal, Marxist, psychoanalytic and radical feminism. Throughout the course these theories are evaluated along the intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Offered in 2006 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines social issues surrounding AIDS and HIV: discrimination and homophobia, risk reduction strategies, social factors in transmission, media treatment, legal and political dilemmas, and international efforts in HIV reduction. Students will get first hand experience through service learning in AIDS organizations within the Delaware Valley. Offered in 2005 and alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between health and human rights through prevailing definitions and understandings of international human rights, and the relevance, scope and depth of issues relevant to health and human rights scholars, practitioners, and advocates. Sociological and interdisciplinary approaches are used to explore the intersection between health and human rights. Key international declarations and conventions are examined, the meanings of "human rights" and "health" explored, specific case studies analyzed and the intersection between historical and contemporary social issues considered. Potential methods for promoting health by protecting human rights at various levels, and the contemporary human rights issues of university/cultural relativity and accountability are addressed as a way of illuminating possibilities and avenues for improving individual and community health through considering primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in various contexts. Prerequisite: Sophomore or above.
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4.00 Credits
Social movements are instrumental in creating social change and thus fundamental to understanding how social systems operate. This course is an upper-level seminar in the social scientific study of social movements, with a focus on social movements of the twentieth century. Topics include mobilization strategies, processes of movement formation, outcomes of social movements and reasons for decline. Case studies of particular social movements are examined using sociological theory. Students create a portfolio of work about a social movement of interest to them.
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