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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Love, sexuality, intimate partnerships, marriage, parenting, and family disruptions are analyzed in a social context. A sociological approach offers insights into our personal experiences and informs our perspectives on social policies that affect families and intimate relationships.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The study of behavior that departs from a group or society's norms. Topics include delinquency and crime; sexual, religious and lifestyle deviance; deviant sub-cultures; society's reaction to deviance; explanations of causes of deviance and the tracing of its effects on individuals and society.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores a comparative history of racial dynamics with particular emphases on the way in which race, ethnicity, and class, inform these histories. A comparative sociological approach will be used in order to explore the process of racial information. Throughout the course we will recuperate the histories of racialized groups and expose sites of oppression, struggle, and resistance.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Examines the centrality of social class in contemporary society. Topics include: conceptions of class, class structure, class consciousness, class inequality and social mobility, worker alienation and exploitation, ideology, the relations between class and culture, the role of money and power elites in politics, the role of transnational corporations in the world, and class-based social movements and revolutions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The twenty-first century has been marked with unprecedented social movement activity. Seattle, Chiapas Genoa, South Africa, Argentina, and New Deli, have become symbolic sites where social actors are forging global alliances to redefine, redirect, and resist the effects of globalization. This course examines the dynamic social, political, economic, and cultural, aspects of globalization though contemporary social movements that have developed in response to globalization. A comparative sociological approach will be used in order to explore globalization, international trade, labor, human and collective rights, and trans-national resistance movements.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Sociological research and theory is used to examine how gender is socially constructed through social institutions, social interaction, and the formation of a gendered identity. Considers how gender interacts with other categories of difference (such as race and social class) to shape major social institutions and personal experiences. Explores how gender arrangements can be transformed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An examination of selected social problems-basic facts, effects on individual and society, and explanations. Problems will be selected from the following three areas, but not all topics will be covered each term. 1. Systemic problems: racial and sexual discrimination, inequality and poverty, militarization and war, ecological problems, overpopulation, urban and rural problems, life cycle problems. 2. Problems of specific institutions: government, economy, family, education, religion, and social services. 3. Personal pathologies: mental illness, suicide, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
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3.00 - 12.00 Credits
3-12 credits This course provides the student with sociology-related work experience in community organizations. The student will have the opportunity to integrate theory and practice gained in the classroom with practical experience in the professional world. In this course a student may develop skills, explore career options, and network with professional while earning college credit.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This is a survey course designed to provide students with an overview of communication as a field of study. Its aim is to help develop oral communication competencies needed to function effectively in a variety of communication contexts. A variety of theoretical topics in the discipline are addressed. The course attempts to build increased knowledge, motivation, and skills in interpersonal, small group, and public communication. May be offered through Distance.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course is designed to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of listening as a vital element in the communication process. The course involves an analysis of our individual listening behaviors by demonstrating the weaknesses of our current listening skills. We expect to help students improve listening proficiencies significantly through practice in a variety of listening settings.
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