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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 This course analyzes the interplay between society and politics, using both classical and contemporary perspectives. Course topics may include: power, elites, conflict, ideology, political systems, political behavior, political organization, political institutions and political processes and change.
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Prerequisites: SOC 08120 This course discusses the major theories and research in complex and formal organizations, giving special attention to a variety of organizational types, including industrial, service and non-profit. It emphasizes examining varying organization types with respect to their size, structure, environments and their dynamics of innovation and change.
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3.00 Credits
The Sociology of Disability adopts a narrative approach from the perspectives of disabled persons, based on memoirs, short stories, and novels, which are applied to relevant sociological theories, concepts, and perspectives. Sociological issues examined in this course include how professionals and practitioners variously define disability, the history of how sociologists have discussed the concept, the analysis of "disabled" cultures both in the US and abroad, and the effects of the Disability Rights Movement on selfhood and collective identity. Most importantly, the course examines how persons with disabilities cope with devalued roles, manage stigma, and incorporate disability into identity.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 or SOC 08220 This course investigates the role of women in society. Course topics include: Women and the Economy, Women and the Law, Socialization into Female Sex Roles, Women and Religion and Women in Academia.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 and SOC 08100 This course introduces the student to the scientific methods used in the social sciences, the relationship between sociological theory and methodologies of data collection and analysis, the rudimentaries of basic types of data analysis and interpretation. Students will learn to read and summarize basic scientific reports, to critically analyze and evaluate reported research findings in the social sciences, and to recognize ethical concerns associated with sociological research. (Required for Sociology majors)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 and SOC 08100 This course familiarizes the student with the basics in elementary statistical methods used in the social sciences and the uses and misuses of statistice for various purposes. The student will learn to calculate and understand the proper use of basic statistics commonly used in the social sciences. (Required for Sociology majors)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 or COMP 01112 This course primarily deals with structural and experiential dimensions of the genocidal process affecting the European Jews, their ethnicity, culture and religious communality after 1933. Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of conscience, Russian prisoners of war, the Polish intelligentsia, who with the Jews, became a subject of Nazi persecution are also among those remembered. The Holocaust or shoah will provide a model for compassionate insight into the experience of other persecuted ethnic and religious minorities or any who suffer disadvantage due to long-standing discrimination, such as women and homosexuals. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the interpersonal processes which are part of survival and transcendence of situations where we find society against the self.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 This course emphasizes the interaction between the social and ecological environments including: technological mechanisms by which societies shape their environments; cultural values that cause people to use the environment in particular ways; and policy implications that may result in social consensus or conflict concerning manipulation of the natural environment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08120 This course will focus on the micro and macro aspects of human service organizations of various kinds; for example, hospitals, courts, nursing homes, public agencies, schools, and the like. These organizations will be examined in terms of their structure, delivery of services, their function of "processing" human beings, the internal and external environments in which they operate, and the policy implications for delivery of services and organizational change.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 08331 and SOC 08375 and SOC 08376 This seminar is a capstone experience designed to help students integrate what they have learned as sociology majors in a liberal arts setting. Students will engage in oral discussions and presentations as well as written exercises and essays to demonstrate an understanding of the sociological perspective, theoretical approaches and methods. The substantive focus of the seminar will vary by instructor.
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