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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The nature and the problems inherent in racial and other minority groups, with special reference to the American scene. (MC/P)
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The study and analysis of complex organizations, bureaucracies, and professions and their influence on individuals and society and its institutions.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores the dynamic and interactive relationships between music, culture, and society. Popular American music - from blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, country, and swing to rock, disco, punk, alternative, and rap - will be analyzed as reflections of culture, as society's ?voice,? and as a powerful instrument of socialization and social change.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
A comparative study of the family in various cultures, both historical and contemporary, with attention to the family in terms of social organization, social change, and social disorganization.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course applies sociological knowledge to common problems encountered in families: spouse and child abuse, elder abuse, catastrophic illness, suicide, unemployment, poverty, teen pregnancy, aging and gender issues. Worldwide traditions and norms affecting the institution of the family are also reviewed. (MC)
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The theories and research in leisure and popular culture will serve as the broad framework. An emphasis will be placed on the sub-area of sport sociology, including such topics as sport and aggression, competition, children, women, minorities, professionalism, and others.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The various theories of crime, the cause of crime, areas of crime, treatment of criminals through the courts, punishment, reform, education, probation, and parole, and means of crime prevention.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the function of law in human societies. Theories relevant to the study of law as a mechanism of social control and social change will be discussed. Law as a social institution, the training of lawyer, and their socialization into the role of lawyer will examined.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
Delinquency in modern society, basic factors and conditions of juvenile delinquency, and the problem of delinquency control.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
An examination of the creation and maintenance of order in society, including socialization and institutions which respond to disorder. Included areas are education, religion, law, welfare, and medicine. Focus on law as both a mechanism of control and the basis for control in other institutions in industrial society.
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