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3.00 Credits
Nature and development of American social policy, including the history of current structures of social welfare services, the role of policy in service delivery and analyses of current social welfare policy issues including family policy, health care policy, drug policy, tax policy and other topical issues. Cross-listed as HUMS 365. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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Examination of social movements, from what conditions facilitate their development to how success is measured. Focus on sociological analysis of a wide variety of social movements of the twentieth century American society and their significance for American society: the Progressive era reform movements, the labor movement, the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the gay rights movement, the civil rights and other racial/ethnic movements of the 1960s, as well as free speech and anti-war movements of the period. Cross-listed as AMST 375. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological theories of mass media, social impacts of mass media and popular culture on collective consciousness; structure versus agency; new media; the internet. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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Exploration of sexuality from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Critical issues directly and indirectly associated with sexual behavior are addressed. Note: Human sexual behavior is openly discussed in this course and is illustrated in the textbooks. Cross-listed as PSYC 385. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or SOCI 111.
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3.00 Credits
Theories of community change in nature, history, structure and functions of, and changes in, American communities. Current trends and issues facing U.S. communities. Impact of demographic changes on communities. Roles of corporations, governments, voluntary organizations and individuals in shaping communities. Intentional communities, cyber communications. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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Societal stratification systems and social inequalities, including the arenas of inequality, primarily class, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as the role of power in constructing and maintaining such inequality; at the creation of wealth and poverty, both in the United States and globally, consequences of racial and gender inequality, and the stratification system surrounding sexualities. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of social theories and projected role of the patterns of sports and heroism in society.
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History and origins of major schools of thought in sociology from the Enlightenment through World War II. Emphasis on the underlying principles and major works of Comte, Marx, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Nlannheim, DuBois, Mead, Veblen, Lukacs, Adorno, Horkheimer, Parsons. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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Survey of contemporary social theory, beginning in Post-World War II era through the current era of poststructuralism, feminist sociology, critical race theory and queer theory. Includes the study of C. Wright Mills, Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Immanual Wallerstein, Anthony Gibbens, Michel Foucault, Theda Skocpol, Dorothy Smith, Adrienne Rich, Patricia Hill Collins. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Culminating experience for the major. A capstone course to apply prior learning to probing major areas of research in sociology. Prerequisites: senior standing; sociology major, SOCI 111, PSYC/BIOL/SOCI 324, PSYC/SOCI 325.
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