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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
PREREQUISITE: SO 141 An overview of major social institutions, such as education, family, religion, culture and media, science and health care, politics, and the economy. Discusses their historical development, modern forms, social functions, and the ways in which they relate to one another and shape individual lives. 3:0:3
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PREREQUISITE: An introductory social science course (i.e., SO 141, PS 101). Considers the moral and ethical consequences of conducting social science research, disseminating the results, and implementing practices and policies and practices through readings and class discussion. Accurate and empathic understandings of different faiths will be combined with critical examination of their propensities for peace and justice-making historically and in contemporarily conflicts worldwide. Contemporary conflicts will include the USA, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian sub-continent. 3:0:3
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A study of the development of the city and of the social characteristics of urbanization, ecology, social processes, group relations, and selected urban problems. 3:0:3
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PREREQUISITES: SO 141 Review of major controversial issues facing modern societies, such as poverty, crime, deviance, sexuality, addiction, mental illness, prejudice, changing values, demographic pressures, surveillance, technology, terrorism and war, the provision of social services, and the balance between individual freedom and social responsibility. Special attention is given to global and cross-cultural context, and the causes, consequences, and potential public policy solutions for each issue. 3:0:3
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PREREQUISITES: SO 141, or PS 101, or other introductory social science course; (SO 220 recommended), EN 105, EN 106, passing the WCT and 60 accumulated hours. Course emphasizes translating social science jargon and research findings into clear and appropriate language for a variety of common consumers of social science results, including professional, practitioner, and lay audiences. Topics also include APA style, conducting a literature review and evaluating sources, balanced and complete presentation, and professional authorial voice. Common forms of social science writing, such as research proposals, data summaries, and research reports are introduced. This course will satisfy the EN 306 requirement for Sociology and Social Psychology majors. 3:0:3.
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3.00 Credits
PREREQUISITES: MA 131 and an introductory social science class (i.e., SO 141, PS 101, CJ 100, or SW 205) Statistical methods are a primary tool for all of the social and behavioral sciences. This course introduces a wide variety of common statistical techniques and their conceptual bases, including: basic descriptive and inferential statistics, analyses of association and variance, effect sizes, and others in their parametric and nonparametric forms. It provides a background in the relevant theories of probability, sampling, and measurement. And the student will learn how to become a more discerning consumer of statistical information as well as gaining practical experience calculating these statistics by hand and computer. 3:0:3
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PREREQUISITE: An introductory social science class (i.e., SO 141, PS 101, CJ 100, or SW 205) and SO 307 or equivalent. Surveys the range of quantitative (experiments, surveys, etc.) and qualitative (observations, interviews, etc.) methodologies commonly used in social scientific research. Critically examines issues related to formulating research questions, evaluating social scientific literature, sampling, measurement, design, analysis, interpretation, and communication of results. Involves completion of data analysis projects and a research proposal. 3:0:3
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The military as a social institution, focusing on both the internal structure and practices of the military and its relation to other institutions (such as the government or the family), military leadership, policy issues and the role of the military in diplomacy and international relations, and the social psychological effects on service members (including the differences between enlisted personnel and the officer corps), veterans, and their families and friends. And it analyzes the dynamic role of the military in a digital age with changing operational mandates. 3:0:3
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Survey of major theories of deviance and social control. Analyzes specific behaviors and identities commonly regarded as deviant: violence, property crimes, drug use, mental illness, unconventional sexual behaviors, suicide and self-destructive behaviors, among others. Explores both official and informal responses to deviantized behaviors, including criminalization and stigmatization, and their cross-cultural variation. 3:0:3
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PREREQUISITE: SO 141 or instructor consent. Surveys the conditions under which conflicts arise, escalate, and are resolved or erupt into open hostility. Examines the social functions and consequences of warfare, including its relation to political, cultural, and economic concerns, and its affects on combatants. Traces the reasons for terrorism and its rise from the 20th century onward, including its connections to globalization and the global community. 3:0:3
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