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3.00 Credits
(3 Hours) This course is designed to provide the student with a basic knowledge of the principles of risk quality.
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hours) Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor Participants in this training will understand how children's mental health is affected by life events, culture, environment, biology, and relationships and that these aspects serve as a road to understanding and wellness. Participants will also learn how to create safe and nurturing learning environments by understanding the impact that room arrangements, label- ing, and comfortable families to create a healthy atmosphere for children by using a method of knowing, informing, discuss- ing with, and supporting families tying everything together to create positive settings for children and families in child care. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discus- sions and assignments in course discussion boards.
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hours) This is an introductory course in sociology. We will cover the basic principles of sociological theoretical perspectives, theo- ries, and research methods. In this course students will learn how culture patterns societies and social interaction and how those patterns are transmitted through socialization and so- cial interaction. Other important areas of study will be social stratification systems, social institution, and collective be- haviors. The course will culminate in an investigation of social change and the various explanations of social change. The central mission of this course, then, is to offer the student insights into how social forces shape us and how we shape social forces.
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hours) Covers the nature, development, functions, and norms of the family in our society and in other cultures. Particular attention is given to courtship, marriage, sexual relations, birth control, male-female roles, kinship, child rearing, divorce, and death in the family.
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hours) Prerequisite: SOC 101 General Sociology Covers a wide variety of social problems in our society including crime, racial discrimination, poverty, drug abuse, disorganization of social institutions, and rapid social change. Applies sociological theories to explain social problems and examines various approaches used to solve these problems.
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3.00 Credits
(T) *COURSE DATA: CREDITS: 3 LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 REPEAT: 0 The course is a general study of human social behavior with an emphasis upon sociological research, socialization and identity, social theories, the nature and meaning of culture, forms of power, and the basic conditions of modernization. The course also initiates a sociology of American culture and society focusing upon modernization as runaway technology. We begin to examine the psychological impact of modernization on people. IAI Code: S7 900
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3.00 Credits
(T) *COURSE DATA: CREDITS: 3 LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 REPEAT: 0 Death and Dying is designed to enable the student to understand dying, death and bereavement as a part of the life process. The content looks at a historical perspective of the lifespan to develop an understanding of the present attitudes and practices in today's culture. Study of the bereavement process enhances an understanding of individual and societal development in dealing with the dying process.
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3.00 Credits
(T) *COURSE DATA: CREDITS: 3 LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 REPEAT: 0 This course is the study of humans in various habitats, past and present, with emphasis on socio-cultural aspects of human behavior. Included will be the arts, religion, economics, politics, marriage, family, kinship, and the physical origins of man, race, language and archeology. We will also examine a study illustrating the fragility of culture and human social bonds as well as an analysis of an unusual clash of cultures in the Midwest.
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3.00 Credits
(T) *COURSE DATA: CREDITS: 3 LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 REPEAT: 0 This course offers the student an opportunity to study and critically reflect upon the history of social problems. The investigation of social problems is a subfield of sociology that focuses upon the social historical context giving rise to the selection of certain ideas or behaviors thought to be harmful or detrimental. In the course of study we will note the forces involved in the irruption and designation of social problems as well as societal responses. IAI Code: S7 901
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3.00 Credits
(T) *COURSE DATA: CREDITS: 3 LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 REPEAT: 0 This course is designed for those seeking to better understand the history and practice of social welfare. Lecture and course material places a major emphasis upon the history of American social welfare. The analysis seeks to explain current welfare services within the context of the development of American culture, political and economic systems, bureaucracy, and the rise of the nation/state as an instrument of social organization.
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