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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 1010 or consent of instructor. Environmental Sociology introduces you to environmental issues and problems. It takes up contemporary environmental concerns including those of resource use and depletion, economic growth and the environment, pollution, population and development, public lands and tourism, the social distribution of environmental problems, and alternative ways of thinking about how humans can relate to the environment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 1010 or Instructor's consent. This course examines mass-mediated entertainment and its engagement both with enduring social tensions (regarding class, race, and gender divisions) and with religious faith and institutions. It reviews theories of the significance of popular culture, as well as methods of genre and single-case analysis. It also prepares students to contribute to current trends in research. The course emphasizes contemporary music, video, and especially film.
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3.00 Credits
The study of the institutions that process suspected and convicted criminal offenders, this course focuses on legal codes, courts, police, prisons, and mass-media crime scares. It offers study of the ways in which these institutions shape and are shaped by large-scale inequality.
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3.00 Credits
The study of motives for and situations conducive to crime, this course reviews major theories of crime and methods for its study. Focus on specific crimes may vary by semester, but the role of inequality in the shaping of crime remains central.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers focused study of special topics, such as the sociology of prisons, media violence, terrorism, corrections, policing in society, or the relations between deviance and particular forms of inequality.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers focused study of special topics, such as the culture of terrorism, religion in the media, national identity, the culture of advertising and consumption in America, the culture of sports, globalization, and political culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 1010, MTH 1150, SOC 2200, SOC 2250, at least 12 additional hours in sociology and senior standing. This is a seminar during which seniors will pursue their own individual research projects. There will be no lectures or exams, but each class will include discussion of the various research topics of interest to students. Each student's work will culminate in the completion of an empirical research project.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Instructor's consent required. A specially arranged course designed to give the student practical experience in work settings related to sociology. Students are assigned to an area of interest to them and their work is supervised by a field supervisor and the course supervisor. A minimum of 100 hours in the agency is required. Grading is on a Pass/ Fail basis. Only three hours of practicum may be applied to the minor.
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4.00 Credits
No prerequisite for SPA 1010. Prerequisite for SPA 1020 is SPA 1010 or equivalent. Emphasis on oral expression, with practice in grammar, reading, and composition. ($45.00 course fee) Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 2-3 years of high school Spanish or permission of the instructor. Intensive Spanish language study that, in one semester, covers the equivalent of first-year Spanish. This course counts as two courses for humanities core credit.
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