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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The body is a physical marker of gender and sexuality. Biological reproduction is saturated with social meanings-shaping ideas about masculinity, femininity, the gender division of labor, and heterosexuality. In this course, we will look at the body as reflexive project and as the site of historical and ideological significance. We address race, ethnicity, physical abilities, and class in explaining variations in cultural ideals.
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3.00 Credits
Definition and classification of mental health and mental illness. Emphasis on social factors affecting mental health. Different ways of responding to persons in poor mental health and consequences of particular responses.
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3.00 Credits
Baseball as a social institution. Group dynamics, baseball as work and business. Free agency and law, race and ethnic relations, and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
Effect of racial and ethnic background, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, and age or generation on the experiences of health, illness, medical institutions, and work in the health professions.
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3.00 Credits
Demography, social organization, technology, and the global environment. Shifting energy systems; sustainable industries; food production. Growth vs. development. Affluence, waste, and recycling.
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3.00 Credits
Gender identities form and influence interactions in friendships, intimate relations, families, education, and other institutions. Changes and continuities in gender roles within the United States and ways in which race, class, and sexual orientation intersect processes of gender relations.
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3.00 Credits
Current history and long-term trends; regional trade. Development strategies and social inequalities. Hispanic Americans, immigration, and the U.S. border; the war on drugs. Race, music, and popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological understanding of contemporary Mexican society. The historical roots of modern Mexican state. Economic, political, and social institutions operating in Mexico, formal and informal structures, and their consequences.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Under faculty supervision, students gain experience in any of a variety of settings, such as civic, corporate, cultural, government, health, media, political, research, and social welfare organizations. Background reading and research will be completed in Sociology 280a concurrently with the completion of internship training, Sociology 280b. A minimum of 3 hours of 280a must be completed with of hours taken in 280b. A research paper and report must be submitted at the end of the semester during which the internship training is completed. A 2.90 grade point average, completion of 6 hours of prior work in sociology, and prior departmental approval of the student’s plans are required. Corequisite: 280b. May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Under faculty supervision, students gain experience in any of a variety of settings, such as civic, corporate, cultural, government, health, media, political, research, and social welfare organizations. Background reading and research will be completed in Sociology 280a concurrently with the completion of internship training, Sociology 280b. A minimum of 3 hours of 280a must be completed with of hours taken in 280b. A research paper and report must be submitted at the end of the semester during which the internship training is completed. A 2.90 grade point average, completion of 6 hours of prior work in sociology, and prior departmental approval of the student’s plans are required. Offered on a pass/fail basis only and must be taken concurrently with 280a. Hours of 280b may not be included in the minimum hours counted toward the sociology major. Corequisite: 280a. May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
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