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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Presentation and description of data, contingency table construction and interpretation, introduction to multivariate analysis, correlation and hypothesis testing.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to critical thinking skills using the logic and reasoning of the social sciences and how these skills can be transferred to other fields. Emphasis on learning the criteria for analyzing and evaluating the validity of complex arguments. Includes causal reasoning, logical inferences and fallacies, distinction between knowledge and belief and ways in which different cultures reason from different assumptions with identifications and comparisons of these assumptions. This course is not currently offered at Cal State San Marcos. It is listed only for transfer-credit and course equivalency purposes.
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3.00 Credits
The social position of children in today's society. Comparisons with the past and other cultures. Special focus on children's peer cultures, social problems confronting youth, and institutions which socialize and control children.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative analysis of a variety of human relationships across the life course, including processes of relationship development and change within areas of kinship, friendship, sexual intimacy, employment, and social organizations.
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of various social problems from global and multicultural perspectives, their causes and possible solutions (crime, unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, immigration, family disruptions, substance abuse, and environmental destruction). Discussions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in relation to these problems in contemporary America and other countries.
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3.00 Credits
The development, structure, and organization of social institutions in American Society. Explores a central dilemma in sociology: why society needs social institutions and how social problems develop out of those same social institutions.
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4.00 Credits
A sociological approach to the study of the influence of group life on behavior and personality. Themes may include attitude change, self-concept, identity, conformity, role theory, symbolic interaction. Credit may not be counted toward a Psychology major.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative analysis of the changing structure of families across various cultures and historical time periods. Interconnections between family life and broader economic and political forces are examined. Emphasis on mate selection, reproduction, child rearing, marital dissolution, remarriage, and the wide diversity of family forms in current U.S. society.
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4.00 Credits
Cross-cultural analysis of women's roles, how various social institutions (the media, work, the family, education, religion) treat sex-role distinctions, and how the women's movement has confronted them.
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3.00 Credits
Sexuality viewed as a normative and institutional pattern of human behavior. Analysis of research on contemporary attitudes and practices.
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