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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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2.00 Credits
The advanced topics seminar provides students an opportunity for advanced inquiry into topics of scientific interest and importance, and development of skills in technical and professional reading. Cross-listed: See BIOL 498, CHEM 498, ENV 498
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the study of human society, including an examination of group life and customs, social institutions, and ways of thinking and behaving related to group life. Note: This course is a prerequisite for all upper division courses in Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the study of human beings and their origins, with special focus on their language, customs, physical characteristics, and institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Using films, autobiographies, and oral histories, students will examine the phenomenon of U.S. immigration from the perspective of the immigrants themselves. Students will learn about the conditions of the immigrants lives in their native countries, why they left, how they arrived in the United States, what they have experienced, and how they have adapted or are adapting to this society. Students will also explore the contributions that immigrants have made to our culture and the issue of undocumented workers and porous borders. By interviewing immigrants, students will learn the ethnographic technique of collecting life histories and of relating them to the historical and contemporary social context.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines major social problems, including violence, sexual deviance, poverty, and health care issues.
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4.00 Credits
The design of this course is such to allow for a systematic exploration of complex social issues. We will give attention to various social issues and learn how the discipline of sociology offers us a framework for understanding them.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors program
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program Global social issues are shaping our lives in unprecedented ways, regardless of where we call home. Through a sociological lens, this course explores many of these complex issues and focuses on strategies used not only by policymakers but by the world’s citizens who are advocates for change. Using the most current data available, issues to be explored include challenges of globalization, ethnic conflict and terrorism, human rights, women and development, population and health, the situation of refugees, and environmental degradation.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses theoretical frameworks from sociology and social psychology to examine womens issues and roles in contemporary society as well as their contributions to various disciplines. Topics include socialization, communication, health, media, leadership, sexual harassment, and violence. Womens contributions to history, politics, education, and science are highlighted. Cross-listed: See SOC 251, WS 251/351
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