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3.00 Credits
Examines critical issues related to crime in the rural context, including offending and victimization. Explores the types of crimes committed in rural areas, including those that are unique to this setting. Critiques criminological theories and their ability to explain rural crime. Analyzes the issues that rural police and agents of the criminal justice system face in dealing with criminal matters.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth examination of what human trafficking is, including the many different forms in which it appears, and human trafficking's pervasiveness within the US and around the world. Explanations for why human trafficking occurs, how victims are recruited and entrapped, who is likely to become a perpetrator, and how societies are investigating and responding to these crimes. Societal responses include political policies towards complicit nations, criminal justice system responses to traffickers, and prevention and aftercare for trafficking victims.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
Survey of selected micro-sociological theoretical orientations and methodological procedures and illustrative substantive data examining the relationship between society and the individual. Emphasis on symbolic interaction and dramaturgy
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
Patterns and organization of work; the theories and methods associated with studying work; how work varies across social and demographic groups; and impact of family structure, technology, globalization and public policy on work.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
Trends and group differences in health and illness; theoretical perspectives on health; the sick role; seeking and using health services; patient-practitioner relationships; caregiving issues; social organization of healthcare systems; international and cultural differences; medicalization of chronic conditions; current issues and problems.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
This course examines issues of mental health and illness from a sociological lens. The main objective is to understand mental health and illness from a social, cultural, and institutional standpoint as opposed a medical or psychological context. Several topics will be explored: theoretical perspectives on mental health and illness, research methodology, social patterns and trends, the importance of social factors that contribute to mental illness, social stressors, stigma and labeling, and treating mental illness.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
Scientific study of sports to better understand how they are practiced and what those practices mean. Using various theoretical approaches, the focus will be on topics as they relate to sports such as: identity, ideology, children, gender, race and ethnicity, the media, economics, politics, globalization, drugs and violence.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
Examines sociological theories used to study the family. Explores current and historic American family trends, how society and various social institutions shape the family, and the internal dynamics of the family as a social group in society
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the structure and operation of the education system, primarily in the United States. Several issues will be addressed including: theoretical perspectives on education's role in society; how schools interact with other social institutions, such as the family, economy, politics, and religion; funding sources and variety of educational institutions; factors affecting student performance; issues of access and inequality among different social and demographic groups; and public policies affecting educational outcomes.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the perspectives on death in different cultures, social influences on those perspectives, death in relation to modern health care systems and related ethical issues, models of grief and its expression, last rites, consequences for survivors, suicide, contemporary risks of death
Prerequisite:
SOCI 201
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