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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; or permission of instructor This course concentrates on the patterns of structured inequality and the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination. Students will examine how group membership influences identity, interpersonal relationships, social status and access to resources. Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on their own values and to consider strategies to combat discrimination, oppression and economic deprivation and promote social and economic justice.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor This course is an introduction to the subfield of gender studies and examines the complicated relationships between biological sex, cultural gender, and human sexuality. In order to better understand these complicated relationships, students will consider both global and domestic cultures and the ways in which sex, gender and sexuality contribute to: identity formation; social status; social and political power; marriage and family; and morality in those cultures.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor In this course students will explore dating, love, marriage and friendship in a variety of contexts and forms. Contemplating intimacy historically, currently, domestically and cross-culturally, students will consider the various scripts, rituals and social constructions employed when engaging in intimate activity. Finally, the violence that all too often accompanies intimate relationships will be examined.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor Employing both a domestic and global lens, this course examines and explores wealth, poverty and discrimination in a variety of contexts and forms. In contemplating the continuing controversy over the causes and explanations of inequality, students will engage in active learning assignments which allow them to critically reflect upon: social theories; programs; policies; values; and attitudes that both reflect and create the stratified world in which we live. Finally, students will be expected to filter current events through this lens of stratification. [Human Services and Criminal Justice Concentration Requirement]
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing; and permission of instructor This course is designed to examine the aftermath of disaster in American society. The course will rely upon authentic learning assignments as students explore traumatic events, both historical and current (significant emphasis will be placed on more recent occurrences). The traditional social institutions (family, religion, education, government, and the economy) will be examined along with emerging social institutions (mass media, sports, healthcare, military). The breakdown or failure of social institutions and the causal factors will be explored. [Human Services and Criminal Justice Concentration Option]
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor This course will explore how "social deviance" is defined and by whom. The positivist and constructionist perspectives will beexplored in an attempt to understand the creation of social norms resulting in the promulgation of laws that control society. Consideration is given to the processes of social labeling and stigmatization of "deviant" persons and groups, the development of a"deviant identity," together with an examination of the major theories which seek to explain "deviant" behavior. The course will alexplore the interaction between law and society (i.e., the relationship of law to social structure, social change). [Criminal Justice Concentration Requirement]
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor This course will examine how new technologies generate new forms of society and culture; how these technologies perpetuate or overturn existing patterns of inequality and identity; and how these technologies change the larger society and culture. Engaged in active learning, students will use the technology while critically examining it.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1000 or 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor This course examines collective behavior, social movements, and other sources of social change both domestically and internationally. The conditions, dynamics, forms, and theories related to each of these topics will be explored in detail. Moreover, types of social movements and the stages through which they develop will be studied using both contemporary and historical examples.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1025; junior standing or permission of instructor This course examines and explores classical sociological theories and theorists. Students will examine Structural Functionalism, Conflict theory and Symbolic Interactionism in detail and analyze current social phenomenon using the basic tenants of those theories. If time allows, more current theorists will be considered.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite SOC 1025; Statistics; junior standing or permission of instructor This course is designed to teach students how to both conduct and evaluate original research in the Social Sciences. As this course aims to prepare students to be "Social Scientists", students will learn about a variety of research methods (survey design will receive particular attention) by engaging in authentic assignments which require them to conduct their own research, students will learn about case study analysis, secondary source analysis and the experimental design and the foundations of ethical research. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used regularly as students learn how to create a data set, and read, analyze and interpret data output.
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