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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours An application of the concept of culture to various societies, from primitive to modern. Cross-cultural analysis of various institutions. Extensive use of ethnographies.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours A study of selected aspects of family structure and functions. Mate selection, family organization, sex roles, family breakdown, variant family forms, and demographic change. Analysis of the American family and comparative study drawing on other cultures.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Psychology 101 The study of interactions of individuals with the social environment. Attitudes, leadership, attraction, persuasion, aggression, group influence, and group dynamics are among the topics studied.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours The study of major social institutions, such as the economy, family, religion, education, and political institution in pre-industrial Appalachia, and the influence of industrialization producing social change. Social problems such as poverty, environmental pollution, and control of resources, and social action taken to ameliorate problems will be a focus. Experiential learning is an emphasis with required fieldwork.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours A study of the structure and functioning of educational institutions and the relationships between education and other social institutions, and education in cross-cultural perspective. Attention to current issues.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Sociology 101 and junior standing Analysis of complex organizations and bureaucracy. The goals, design, internal structure, and environmental relations of organizations. The focus is on the individual, the group and the organization as units of analysis.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Sociology 101 or permission of the instructor and junior standing Race, social class, and gender are systems of inequality that shape culture and society. This course explores how these inequalities affect the experience of diverse groups in society. We examine inequalities of race, class, and gender as they relate to social institutions and key contemporary social issues.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Sociology 101 or 211 and junior standing A study of human population, including population structure and the processes of fertility, mortality, and migration. The course examines the impact of changing population, such as aging and urbanization, on social institutions and the environment. The course examines the role of population policy in achieving social and environmental goals.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Sociology 101, Social Science 260 or permission of the instructor A study of religion and the social order. Religion as an integral part of human culture, the building of a sacred cosmos. Religion and social organization, civil religion, secularization, religion and social change, cross-cultural comparisons.
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7.00 - 15.00 Credits
7 to 15 credit hours Prerequisite: Junior standing and permission of the Division of Social Sciences Chair Field experiences that provide practical applications in appropriate work settings. Internships require a time commitment equivalent to full-time employment, with credit allotted on the basis of one credit hour for each week of full-time involvement.
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