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  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Seminar in Applied Sociological Inquiry. Further develops competencies for the critical assessment of sociological literature, as it pertains to the formulation of research strategies for policy analysis and evaluation. Intensive study of a number of readings on applied areas of sociological concern. The comprehensive project based on the internship experience is written up during this course. 3 hours seminar.
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    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Selected Problems in Sociology. The intensive exploration of a general problem in sociology. Participants contribute research into an aspect of the problem. Formed at the initiative of a department member or in response to student's interest with consent of the instructor. May be repeated three times for a maximum of 12.0 credits. 3 hours lecture.
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    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Ethnic Relationships. This course will analyze relationships among ethnic groups, and evaluate the causes, consequences and resolution of ethnic conflict. It will also consider the various policy implications of discrimination in institutional contexts. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 The Family as an Institution. This course will examine the family system in the West from both historical and contemporary perspectives. It will consider the implications of recent research on changing role structure and cultural values regarding marriage, and problems of adaptation in current family systems (e.g., dual-earner marriages, single-parent families, adolescent sexuality, family abuse, divorce and remarriage). 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociology of Poverty in the United States. This course examines major contemporary definitions and ideologies of poverty and public welfare, and considers the extent and patterns of distribution of poverty. Alternative socio-economic explanations of poverty and their implications for policy will be assessed, and problem-solving aspects of program and policy research analyzed. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Community Resources and Aging. This course examines resources for the aging within their communities. Additionally, it will acquaint students with services provided by public and private agencies and relevant federal and state legislation. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Community Resources and Youth. Resources for the healthy as well as the deviant child, in the family and neighborhood, in addition to services provided by public and private agencies; relevant federal and state legislation. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sociological Perspectives on Health and Medicine. This course will introduce the student to the interesting and complex relationships that exist between society, health and health care. Class lecture discussions will focus on the connections between social structure, the quality of the physical and social environment and health. Special attention will be given to work environments. This course will also deal with the effects of social factors on the experience of one's body, the perception of disease and on the construction of medical knowledge. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 The Sociology of Health Care Systems. This course will focus on the relationship between the social structure of medical institutions, professional values, the socialization of health professionals and health care. The social context for the emergence of the modern medical profession, technology and knowledge will be considered along with contemporary social trends in Western industrialized societies such as the increasing medicalization of life. The implications of these trends for social policy and a cross-cultural analysis of healers and health care will be considered. 3 hours lecture.
  • 3.00 Credits

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SOCIOLOGY Credits: 3.00 The Sociology of the Criminal Justice System. This course examines the criminal justice system (the police, the courts, correctional institutions, probation and parole) and considers its manifest and latent functions. It explores sociologically the ways in which offenders are selected, processed and treated, and offers a view of the system from both occupational and experiential perspectives. 3 hours lecture.
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