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3.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the basic doctrines of major world religions with regard to the nature of divinity and religious experience, the meaning of human existence and its place in the cosmic order.
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3.00 Credits
All major religions have two faces: an exoteric face of orthodox teachings and accepted practices, and an esoteric or inner face, reflecting a deeper, mystical spirituality. This course will explore some of these esoteric traditions - Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Sufism and others - in the context of their origins in world religions, and with attention to their common debt to Plato's enduring doctrine of the two worlds. Classroom activities will combine the use of sacred texts, lectures, discussion and small group process to weave a variety of esoteric teachings into a tapestry of useful information.
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3.00 Credits
Special topics courses in religion may be offered. Possible topics are Religious Autobiographies, Asian Religions, Women in World Religions, Death and the Afterlife, Islam, Early Christianity and the Historical Jesus, and New Religious Movements, The Gnostic Gospels.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically studies contemporary American culture by examining a broad range of its more everyday manifestations. These will include advertisements, television programming for children and adults, popular song lyrics, comic books, cartoons and other forms of humor, toys, sports, games, food preferences, and popular song lyrics, comic books, cartoons and other forms of humor, toys, sports, games, food preferences, and popular magazines and tabloids. The course is "hands-on". Information on popular culture is collected and analyzed with a variety of social science theories and research techniques. Major attention is paid to images of women and men and racial and ethnic groups as they appear in popular culture, and to the way in which popular culture reflects and reinforces the American class structure. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the concepts and methods of sociology, particularly as they are applied to an understanding of problems and structure in society. This course will include the social organization of the U.S. as well as other countries around the world. Emphasis will be on other countries around the world. Emphasis will be on causes and implications of social and cultural change. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a wide range of human actions-- homicide, rape, burglary, embezzlement, fraud, drug and alcohol use, as well as numerous other violent and nonviolent forms of crime and deviance. U.S. crime and victimization data will be used to develop profiles of each crime type. The topics covered are intended to introduce the student to the study of deviance and criminology. The first part of the course examines the offender, victim, crime prevention strategies, and situational elements surrounding major forms of crime. The second part of the course, major theoretical perspectives on deviance will explore the reasons individuals or groups commit crimes.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores society from a visual perspective. Using photographs, video, and the internet students will explore how society expresses itself visually. Students will use visual tools to examine fundamental elements of society such as values, norms, beliefs, institutions, and social structures. Students will learn to take sociological photographs as well as view the visual works of others.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
An intermediate course for the detailed analysis of major issues relating to sociology. Topics and reading are determined yearly by the teaching faculty.
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3.00 Credits
We all wear clothes, but the fabrics we wear have meanings and functions that go far beyond covering our bodies. In fact, fashion speaks, and this class seeks to listen to, dissect, and understand its messages. This course in the sociology of fashion will examine the individual and social significance of fashion in both contemporary and historical settings. This class will draw on the sociology of culture, consumption, class, race, and gender. Among the topics to be included: social identities and fashion; presentation of self; sub-cultures and fashion; the history, adoption, and co-opting of fashion; race, class, gender, status and power in fashion: the maintenance, expression, and adaptation of social inequalities and hierarchies as they operate through fashion; and the business of fashion: clothing production and the global economy.
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