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  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Fall Semester Yearly Cycle: Every Other Good health is a foundation for healthy communities, but good health is in scarce supply. In this course, students will explore the conceptual aspects of good health as a scarce societal resource, will learn about the ways in which health and illness are experienced in sub-groups in our population, and, through community service learning experience, and understand the health and illness issues that actual groups of people cope with in their daily lives. Service learning courses at Bryant require significant out of class community service done in partnership with community agencies. Students receiving credit for SOC352 cannot receive credit for this course. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Soc.and Service Learning Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought, Women's Studies Minor
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    Session Cycle: Varies Yearly Cycle: Every Third In this course students examine the historical and contemporary sociological functions and tension in urban areas, with particular emphasis on cities. Using both a comparative and case-study methodology, students analyze in particular the relationship between the world economy, social and political forces and urban areas. The main focus of the course is social inequality. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Africana/Black Studies, Cultural Mode of Thought, Global Studies, International Focus, International Studies, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
  • 3.00 Credits

    3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Africana/Black Studies, Cultural Mode of Thought, Global Studies, International Focus, International Studies, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Soc.and Service Learning Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Fall Yearly Cycle: Every Other Globalization and Childhood examines the impacts of globalization on children and childhood across the globe. Issues include children as producers and consumers, as soldiers and victims of violence, and others. All students work on community-based projects as part of their academic assignments. Prerequisite: SOC250SL or permission of the instructor. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Global Studies, International Focus, International Studies, Liberal Arts Elective, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Soc.and Service Learning Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Fall Yearly Cycle: Annual The central goal of this course is to lead students to a deeper understanding of the ways in which American families are changing. Through an examination of the family in sociological, historical and cross-cultural perspective, students will gain insight into both the diversity of family forms and the ways in which the family is tied into the larger structure of society. Students receiving credit for SOC356SL cannot receive credit for this course. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought, Women's Studies Minor
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Every Other Through an examination of the family in sociological, historical and cross-cultural perspective, students will gain insight into both the diversity of family forms and the ways in which the family is tied into the larger structure of society. Study of the family as a social institution will be organized around a service learning practicum designed each semester in collaboration with a community partner. Service learning courses at Bryant require significant out of class community service done in partnership with community agencies. Students receiving credit for SOC356 cannot receive credit for this course. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Soc.and Service Learning Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought, Women's Studies Minor
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Fall Yearly Cycle: Every Other This course introduces students to the rich literature of sociological explorations into social psychology. It reviews a broad range of theoretical approaches, focusing particularly upon symbolic interactionist theory. Through readings, case studies and practical applications, students explore the intricacies of the social world to uncover a deeper understanding of human social behavior and themselves as social beings. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Social Science Mode of Thought
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course provides an overview of the discipline of sociology of sport. The course focuses on the global aspects of sport, with an emphasis on the relationship between sport and race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and national identity. It provides students with the theories, concepts and perspectives that allow them to better understand the relationships between sport, society and culture. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Social Science Mode of Thought, Women's Studies Minor
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course provides an overview of the discipline of the sociology of sport. Students will focus on the global aspects of sport, with an emphasis on the relationship between sprot and race, class, gender, sexual orientation and national identity. This course also helps students develop theories, concepts and perspectives to understand the general relationship between the institution of sport, society and culture. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Cultural Mode of Thought, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Soc. and Social Research Major, Soc. and Service Learning Maj., Social Science Mode of Thought, Women's Studies Minor
  • 3.00 Credits

    Session Cycle: Fall Yearly Cycle: Annual This course examines major issues in race relations from the perspective of both black and white Americans from the onset of slavery to the present. The course examines the origins and functioning of American slavery, with consideration to the Atlantic slave trade and the role of U.S. slavery within the context of New World slavery; the relationship between European immigrants and African-Americans in terms of the formation of whiteness and the historical meaning of white skin privilege; abolitionism and antislavery; the development and functioning of Jim Crow segragation; 2nd Reconstruction; the civil rights movement; and the significance of race during the post civil rights era. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division History and Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Africana/Black Studies, Cultural Mode of Thought, Historical Mode of Thought, History Concentration, History Minor, Liberal Arts Elective, Sociology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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