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3.00 Credits
Social scientific study of religion as a social institution. Examines behavior, belonging and belief, as well as the relationships and processes that sustain religious systems of meaning. Impact of religion on other social categories such as gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
Population distribution, composition, growth, migration, vital processes, and problems.
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Essentials of demography (data sources, population composition, structure, change, and distribution) and their application to the needs of government and business.
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3.00 Credits
Nature of theories of social change; causes and types of social change; the social effects of invention in the modern world and the adjustments of contemporary social institutions to technological change.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the central social scientific theories regarding the economic, political, and social development of nations. Focus on the evaluation of different approaches to international development in theory and practice.
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Examines the causes and consequences of globalization from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focus on the evolution of the global economy, the formation of international political structures, and the emergence of global culture.
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3.00 Credits
The school as a social system; function and role of education in contemporary society; major trends.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to social science research. Topics include conceptualization and research design, sampling, measurement, data collection and analysis, and the logic of scientific inference within one or more of the research techniques used by sociologists (survey research, field research, historical and comparative research, content analysis etc.).
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3.00 Credits
Students learn theories of deviant behavior and how issues of race, social class, gender, and sexuality emerge in youth subcultures. Students study various subcultures such as hip hop, tattoos and body modification, skinheads, punk, heavy metal, virginity pledging, and video gaming.
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3.00 Credits
Relationships between the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge and the character and structure of society.
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