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3.00 Credits
An exploration of tribal cultures based on the video series "Millennium: Tribal Wisdom for the Modern World". Tribal views on the environment, nature, relationships between the sexes, art and rituals, spirituality, identity, and wealth and power will be explored with an eye to their relevance to solving modern social problems. Students are encouraged to develop an understanding and appreciation of their own cultural heritage as well as that of tribal peoples. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the social change created when cultures and societies are forced to relocate as a result of armed conflict or government policy. A variety of examples will be used including the forced resettlement of both the Inuit people in the Artic and the inhabitants of isolated fishing villages in Newfoundland as well as the recent refugee crisis in Darfur, Sudan and the longstanding refugee states of the Palestinian people. It will focus on changes in family structure, education, health, economic activity, and political processes. Students will be encouraged to conduct research and inquiry with local agencies serving refugee populations in the area.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine poverty in the United States and the world and the problems associated with it; these will include hunger, housing quality and homelessness, employment, health problems, family stability, and education. Definitions and measurement of amounts of poverty will be considered. Throughout the course, poverty will be studied as a feature of society and a world order where wealth and power are not equally distributed and where technology and population structures are producing social change. Various solutions to the problems of poverty will be explored. Students in the course will be given opportunity to explore and clarify their own attitudes and beliefs about poverty and the poor.
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3.00 Credits
This course utilizes the sociological perspective to explore the historical and contemporary issues facing Japan today. Particular emphasis will be placed on examining the impacts of Japanese nationalism, contemporary social problems, family structure, gender, as well as economic, political, and religious institutions. Culture will be explored as a way of explaining human behavior. Students will be encouraged to draw cross cultural comparisons between Japan and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics as applied to problems in the behavioral and social sciences. Topics will include measures of central tendency and variability, correlation, hypothesis testing, t tests, analysis of variance, regression, and chi square analysis. Students will also learn to use statistical software and to choose the appropriate analysis for various type of data. (Cross-listed with PSY 225)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the foundations of environmental sociology and trends in the field over recent decades. Using these foundations, the course examines three major issues that continue to dominate environmental sociology: the environmental implications of our political, social, and economic institutions; the relationship of growth to environmental problems; and, ultimately, the relationship of man to nature. Meet pre-requisite or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a description and analysis of the structures and dynamics of Latin American Society. It focuses on cultural norms; social change; stratification,; demography; environmental issues; family structures; and social institutions including economics, politics, and religion. The course also explores the impacts of globalization in contemporary Latin America with particular emphasis on its relationship to the north.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance understanding of cultural diversity and social inequalities. Racial and ethnic heritages, socioeconomic classes, and gender as well as their role in identity formation are explored. The course also examines the inequalities of power and privilege that flow from racism, sexism, and class structure. Primary attention is given to the United States with cross-national materials used for comparison. Basic with cross-national materials used for comparison. Basic sociological concepts are introduced throughout the course. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of technology, and media and communications in particular, in understanding the processes of globalization. The global changes that are taking place, and which media and communications both encourage and reflect, require detailed and critical analysis if they are to be understood and managed. In the process of globalization, relationships between media, technology and social change are uncertain, uneven and complex. This course employs and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the full range of social sciences, in the attempt to understand the implications of changing technologies on the lives of citizens and consumers around the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses a sociological viewpoint to examine what happens when people from different cultures come in contact. The course uses a global perspective with case studies and examples drawn from both traditional and modern cultures. Major emphasis will be given to the differences between collective and individualist cultures, and to intercultural processes such as verbal and nonverbal communication, stereotyping, culture shock, conflict and change. Skills for effective intercultural interaction will be introduced and practiced.
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