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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with social problems such as poverty, crime, drug abuse and family break-up, and the public policies devised by the federal government to remedy the problems. Unique solutions utilized by state and local communities will also be emphasized. The justice and equity of these on individuals and groups will be explored. Prerequisite: SOC 140.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the urban environment as the context for understanding education and the teaching culturally diverse students in city schools. It examines the history of urban education and the sociology of education in the city as a complex organization. Issues of multicultural education, school violence, language diversity, will be examined through a human developmental framework for analyzing urban institutions, racism and intercultural understanding. Prerequisite: URB 140.
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3.00 Credits
(Alternate years 2010-2011)A comprehensive survey of the development and practice of international relations and diplomacy during the preceding four centuries. Students will apply the resulting concepts and principles to contemporary problems and overarching issues now facing the United States in the international community. Prerequisite: PS 140 or PSY 140/141 or SOC 140 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the socio-historic development of cities and how urbanites “experience” the city in both in the United States and in the Two-Thirds World. It explores the process of urbanization and urbanism and their impact on interpersonal social life. Methodologies of studying the city will be examined. The course will devote time to a discussion of the cities of the 21st century. Prerequisite: URB 140.
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3.00 Credits
This course involves examining the biblical basis for responding to contemporary social concerns, and then learning methods for formulating Christian responses to these concerns. Prerequisite: Sophomore class standing.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature of community in an urban context, as well as the sociological principles and concepts used in the study and analysis of the community. The social, economic, religious, and political issues and challenges faced in fostering and maintaining community spirit and organizations are also addressed. The course draws from a human development model, with its focus on operational value systems, as well as on levels of consciousness to understand the substrate of the spiral forces that shape urban communities. The course has a research component to examine the role of community organizations in addressing the needs of urban neighborhoods. Prerequisite: URB 140.
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3.00 Credits
The family as a mesosystem in an ecological framework and sociologically as private and public will be the focus of this course that will investigate the current family in a historical setting. Internal and external stressors and strengths will be emphasized. Prerequisite: SOC 140.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the root causes of poverty in all its social and spiritual dimensions. The meaning of powerlessness will be examined along with theoretical and practical steps for the elimination of poverty, and the cultural and political factors that inhibit its eradication. The course will study poverty as a global urban and rural phenomenon. in is designed to grapple with theological issues related to poverty and development. The student will explore various theoretical debates on poverty, ethics of development, liberation theologies and evangelical reflection on social action to understand assumptions about poverty. The course will explore case studies for transforming poverty in less developed countries. Prerequisite: URB 140.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the nature of religion in the city from a sociological perspective. It acquaints the student with an understanding of religion as a social phenomenon and its function in the world as both accommodation and protest. It discusses the ways human beings organize their societies around a religious framework to create a semblance of order, meaning and continuity, and to cope with social change. The course explores the dynamics of secularization, conversion, and the growing interest in spirituality in society today. It utilizes a comparative, human development approach to study diverse cultural value systems and their approach to the sacred in society, and how these approaches find an institutional expression. Prerequisite: URB 140.
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2.00 - 6.00 Credits
Field work under professional supervision in a social agency, program, or institution. Application and integration of knowledge, theory, and understanding; development of skills common to human service professionals. Involves three hours per week, per credit, of social agency experience during the 15-week semester, other brief assignments relevant to the field work, and a weekly on-campus supervisory seminar. May be repeated to a cumulative maximum of 20 for this and other social work and psychology field courses. The student normally invests at least two semesters in placement at the same agency. Must be prearranged one term in advance of placement. Prerequisites: PSY 140/141 or SOC 140 and consent of instructor.
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