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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the ways that families and intimate relationships shape and are shaped by societal contexts. Through studying love, sexuality, cohabitation, marriage, caregiving, gender roles and union dissolution, students learn about the diverse, complex, and changing nature of intimate connections and family lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to serve as volunteers in the community - an opportunity to study the social justice problems they are responding to with their volunteer efforts and to look at local and global social systems in which these problems exist. The course examines the roles of philanthropy and community service and explores alternative ways that society responds to community needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to sociology's fundamental perspectives, methods and themes for the study of human social relations. Through a wide range of topics including socialization, social inequality, social institutions and social change, students explore the links between individual lives and societal contexts.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of contemporary social problems in both the U.S. and around the world using various sociological perspectives, analytical insights, and methodologies. The course critically analyzes a range of social issues such as poverty and inequality, racism, sexism, family breakdown, education, crime and violence, political economy, unemployment, the environment, globalization, and militarism and terrorism, among other emerging structural and systemic processes affecting the survival of peoples nationally and globally.
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3.00 Credits
Using a sociological perspective, this course explores the causes and consequences of inequality in the United States as well as in other countries across the globe. This course addresses the historical roots, sociological explanations and contemporary realities of inequality, and explores the effects of social stratification on individuals and groups within society.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth examination of various gender identities within the US and abroad such as women, two-spirit people, transgender people, and men. The topics include: gender, human bodies and age; the idea of gender as performance; the intersections of gender with race, sexuality, economic privilege, religion, ableism and more. Students will examine contemporary theory and research in gender studies, which will reinforce compassion, listening, and greater knowledge that facilitates increased safety and peace.
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3.00 Credits
Using a sociological perspective, this course explores the diverse constructions of popular culture within the U.S. and selected parts of the world. An important component within this area of sociology addresses how mass media both reflect and influence popular cultural trends. This course is designed to increase students' abilities to understand, explain, and analyze popular culture via the lens of the sociological imagination, thus increasing their agency as social actors.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the evolving position of women in society and the role of gender in shaping opportunities and experiences. Through various cultural and theoretical perspectives, students analyze how women's rights and roles change and how gender influences power, status and meaning.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the major institutions of family, education, economic, nad political systems as they define, provide for, and frequently limit women. The course addresses women's issues throughout many cultures of the world and considers how women's gender intersects with race, religion, and sexual orientation.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of a special topic in sociology. Intended for all interested students. Prereq: Topic-dependent.
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