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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The focus of the course is on the role and evolution of organizations in social life. Among the topics of analysis are the conditions under which organizations are created, grow, establish relations with other aspects of their environments, adopt tactics for survival, and how they fail.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the social consequences of the economic and environmental impact of energy choices in the U.S. and globally and how they shape societal norms and values. It will develop a critical understanding of the social attitudes, norms, values and behaviors toward energy consumption.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the range of ways in which societies are organized according to gender. It critically examines and analyzes the complex and multiple questions related to women's lives taking into consideration social, economic, political, psychological and historical realities. To be able to achieve a holistic analysis, men's experiences are fully integrated in the exploration of issues.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on theories of social inequality as applied to the exercise of power and large-scale social control. Issues of class, race and gender and other inequalities are considered in the U.S. and globally.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
Relationship between political and social structures with emphasis on the concepts of power, ideology, elites, class, and politics.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
This course examines and analyzes the transformation of post colonial societies through capitalist, socialist or other forms of development in a political economy context. It explores the international division of labor, labor migration, state formation, among other issues in the U.S. and what has been called the "Third World."
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
The relationship of law and society is studied through the history, philosophy and evolution of the law and legal institutions. Three major functions of law in modern society: social control, dispute resolution and social engineering are examined.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
Examines the origin and role of the self in society, using a sociological perspective to explore concepts such as symbolic interactionism, identity, roles, emotion, and talk. Examines social inequalities at the microsociological level and explores how meaning is derived from shared understanding in social interaction. Prereq: SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
Social influences on aging individuals. Examination of theories of aging and the life cycle; age status, age-sex roles, health community participation, family relations, work, leisure, retirement, housing and finance.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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3.00 Credits
Social and cultural factors associated with the definition, occurrence, and experience of health and illness. An examination of the social determinants that affect the etiology and distribution of illness and the social organization of the medical profession and the hospital.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1301
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