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3.00 Credits
Summer semester. 6 semester hours. Students must register for 3 credits each in two of the departmental areas in which this course is offered. Those areas are history, philosophy and religious thought, and sociology. Students are afforded the opportunity to participate in the archaeological excavations at Bethsaida in Israel for three weeks. They learn the techniques of excavating, recording, dating, and evaluating finds while exploring the history of the region through visits to other archaeological and Biblical sites and through daily lectures. Living accommodations are provided at an Israeli kibbutz where the students intermingle with kibbutzim, gain first-hand experience of kibbutz living, and interview people who have lived for many years in the kibbutz. Several days are spent in Jerusalem where the opportunity is provided to visit Christian sites. Students are taken to the University of Bethlehem to hear a lecture on the Arab situation and to interview Palestinian Arab students.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course focuses on the nature and extent of crime and delinquency: an historical survey of explanatory theories focusing on the economic, social, and psychological causes of criminal behavior; and current methods of treatment, policy, and prevention. Prerequisite: SOC101.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. A study of the historical development of the fields of anthropology and sociology with an emphasis on the contributions of both classical and modern social theorists in the development of key concepts in the study of social and cultural behavior. Prerequisite: SOC101 or SOC242.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course provides a study of the characteristics and diversity of traditional American Indian cultures, including prehistory; the development of cultural areas; and the economic, social, religious, and aesthetic differences within these areas. Students will examine a historical overview of Indian-White relations and contemporary American Indian life. Prerequisite: SOC242.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course investigates deviant (normative and statistical) social behavior. A variety of psychological, economic, sociological, and anthropological theories are used to analyze the causes, consequences, and social responses to behaviors such as sexual violence, suicide, mental illness, illegal drug use, homosexuality, and heterosexual deviance.
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3.00 Credits
Summer semester. 3 semester hours. Students manufacture a variety of stone tools to learn about the evolution of prehistoric technology. Obsidian, flint, and bottle glass are worked with stone, antler, bone, and wood to fashion arrowheads, spear points, knives, and scrapers. Requirements for ART345 are the same as for ART245 with the addition of either 1) a 10- page research paper on prehistoric paleolithic tool manufacturing, or 2) the manufacture of punch struck blade (upper paleolithic) tools. Normally offered May term. Non-refundable materials fee required. Preference is given to majors and minors. This course may be taken either at the lower-division level or at the upper-division level, but not both.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students will examine the purposes, philosophy, methods, and values governing the establishment of welfare programs in response to social problems. This course provides a survey of social service practice in various social agencies, such as probation, parole, education, welfare, mental health, and institutional care.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course will provide the student with a general understanding of the professional field of social work and social work practice. The roles and functions of the professional social worker, as well as intervention strategies, will be addressed. The course will also acquaint students with important historical developments in, and the evolution of, social work as a profession. Students will learn from a variety of social workers from many different fields of social work.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. The objective of this course is to muse about how the widespread modern phenomenon of social stratification originally evolved. While humans lived as egalitarian hunters and gatherers for 99% of their history, and all scientifically studied hunters and gatherers have an egalitarian social structure, no one knows how unequal power and wealth developed. How did societies in which having more than others, or trying to tell others what to do, were considered sure signs of insanity, change into stratified societies? This course explores ideas that chiefdoms, intermediate between tribes and states, hold some answers because they are the first to achieve non-kin based organization with stratified power and wealth.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students complete an independent research project based on course material on the theory, methodology, practice, and ethics of social science research. Prerequisite: SOC324.
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