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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Selected Topics in Sociology. Prerequisites: SOCI 301 or SOCI 304 or SOCI 309 or SOCI 311 or SOCI 312 or departmental approval. The area to be covered is chosen by the instructor each semester. The course may be selected more than once with approval. Limited to only the general areas of sociological theory, research methodology, problems of institutional processes, and application of methodology and theory to social situations or community issues and problems. May be repeated twice for a maximum of 9.0 credits. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Qualitative Research in Sociology. Prerequisites: SOCI 301 or SOCI 304 or SOCI 309 or SOCI 311 or SOCI 312 or departmental approval. The course will explore qualitative research from diverse theoretical perspectives. It will examine the personal, political, and scientific dilemmas that researchers typically face attempting to gather objective data about the "backstage regions" of the subjects' world. Topics may include the researcher's role in the field; developing rapport and trust; emotions and fieldwork; age, race, sex, and gender issues in research; politics and ethics in fieldwork; researching "high risk" settings; and techniques of data collecting in interviewing and fieldwork. 1 hour lecture, 2 hours other.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Law. Prerequisites: SOCI 301 or SOCI 304 or SOCI 309 or SOCI 311 or SOCI 312 or departmental approval. The impact of the social usages of law on all levels of operation as an instrument of social policy, social control and social regulation. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Social Uses of Language. Prerequisites: One course in sociology or departmental approval. The functions of language in everyday life. The sociology of language applied to other social phenomena such as social change, religion, stratification, gender roles, and power. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of the Future. Prerequisites: One course in sociology or departmental approval. An examination of the study of probable effects of alternative futures to American society. This course will examine, also, the manner in which such alternatives are studied; the role of prediction by scientific means, and the use of probabilities in projecting the outline of our society in the near and great future. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Sexuality. Prerequisites: SOCI 301 or SOCI 304 or SOCI 309 or SOCI 311 or SOCI 312 or departmental approval. The course examines theoretical and empirical work in the sociology of sexuality. It seeks to understand the social foundations of sexual behavior and sexual identity. It explores the relationship between sexuality and politics, focusing on current as well as historical conflicts over sexual behavior and ideologies. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Gender. Prerequisites: SOCI 301 or SOCI 304 or SOCI 309 or SOCI 311 or SOCI 312 or departmental approval. The social determinants of differences between women and men and the effect of sex role differentiation in the social institutions of marriage and family, the economy and work situation, formal education, health, mass media, and religion; special emphasis is placed on the impact of social change on sex roles in contemporary society. Meets the World Languages and Cultures Requirement - World Cultures. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Evaluation Research. This course will examine the ways in which sociological training and insight (especially research skills) are applied in various non-academic settings. Special attention will be given to assessing and evaluating social policy and programs. The political, ethical and moral dilemmas which are entailed in evaluation research will also be explored. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Computer Applications in Sociology. Prerequisites: An undergraduate course in statistics. One of the primary uses of computers in sociology is to summarize, describe, and analyze data sets using statistical packages. This course provides hands-on experience in computer data analysis of a variety of sociological data sets. Major techniques to be illustrated include cleaning data, constructing scales, and conducting univariate and multivariate analyses. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Deviance. The course will address the practical and political issues of defining, measuring, and responding to social deviance (e.g., mental illness, drug use, etc.). The course will concentrate on the role of formal agencies and institutions that deal with deviance and will examine problems in assessing various policy alternatives (e.g., decriminalization, deinstitutionalization, treatment, etc.). 3 hours lecture.
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