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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on helping students to better understand a range of contemporary social issues problems in a globalized world. The issues will be examined in several regions of the world with particular emphasis on Africa. Issues to be examined include: inequalities in life chances, wages and work, gender and education; crime, war, and terrorism; urbanization and population growth, ecological and environmental sustainability. The nature and dimensions of globalization as well as the social theories for analyzing the problems associated with globalization will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
In the last decade the impact of religion on society and culture has changed, especially at the global level. This course will introduce students to the sociological perspective as it applies to the understanding of religious phenomena. The course will also seek to present various sociological theories regarding religious belief and value systems, religious attitudes, religious practices and behavior, and religious movements. In studying the issues the instructor and students will have an opportunity to examine the relationship between religious organizations and the other social institutions found in contemporary American and global societies. The course will also explore ways in which religion and religiousness is inherently human and therefore how it is significantly present in some form in every society.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the content, presuppositions, and the implications of the body of sociological theory, exemplifying the full range of sociological inquiry. Particular attention is given to the sociological trilogy of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber and their impacts on the origins of sociology as a discipline.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cove the content, presuppositions, and implications of contemporary sociological theory. Students will engage in theory construction and analysis, and endeavor to develop inferences associated within the classical authors relevant to contemporary theorists. Students are encouraged to read and discuss a variety of contemporary theorists to develop their particular interests in a substantive area.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study social problems that may accompany globalization. It will also consider a range of social problems and issues by comparing their causes and solutions in different countries. Global inequality, class, race, and gender inequalities will be emphasized. Problems in work, education, the family and health care will be explored, as will crime and deviance, and problems of population and the environment. Learning activities will include individual and group projects, and there will be an emphasis on writing and class presentations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study social problems that may accompany globalization. It will also consider a range or social problems and issues by comparing their causes and solutions in different countries. Global inequality, class, race, and gender inequalities will emphasized. Problems in work, education, the family and health care will be explored, as will crime and deviance, and problems of population and the environment. Learning activities will include individual and group projects, and there will be an emphasis on writing and class presentations.
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3.00 Credits
As information technology proliferates, the farthest reaches of the earth are drawn closer to each other; indeed, societies around the globe are increasingly interconnected. A consequence of this that the larger world is having an ever more profound affect on 'our' own life experiences. Just as American Culture is spreading itself around the world, other societies, too, have an impact on 'us'. Differences and Identity will examine representations of 'other' cultures and of 'other' identities, through American popular (including films, TV, newspapers, news stories, and so on), so as to engender a critical appreciation of stereotyping processes. The course will also examine 'alternative' images of the world, produced and circulated elsewhere, which show different cultures and identities in a new light.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 15.00 Credits
The internship is designed for students to actively participate in a community organization or agency of their choice (as available) for 120 hours per 3 credit course. The primary goal of the internship experience is to allow the primary goal of the internship experience is to allow the student an opportunity to learn experientially. This will provide them an opportunity to apply theoretical and technical skills gained in the classroom setting to actual work in the community. Internship sites include local schools, juvenile centers, police departments, and community action agencies. Students are expected to develop a working understanding of the issues and social dynamics of working within a community setting. Meet restriction requirement or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course for the detailed analysis of major issues relating to sociology. Topics and readings to be determined yearly by the teaching faculty.
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