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1.00 Credits
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1.00 Credits
Evaluation and assessment of learning that has occurred as a result of prior offcampus experience relevant to the curriculum of the Department. Requires complementary academic study and/or documentation. Offered on a credit, nocredit basis only. Not open to postgraduate students. Interested students should contact the Department office. [By Petition]
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5.00 Credits
An introduction to major concepts, skills, and techniques of research methods in the social sciences. This will include the assumptions of the scientific method, basic principles of qualitative and quantitative research methods in the social sciences and data collection and analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 200 or equivalent. Must pass course with grade of C- or higher in order to advance to second course in Methods sequence.
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5.00 Credits
Provides an analysis of the major theoretical perspectives that provide the conceptual basis for sociological research and analysis. Emphasis is on the terminology, assumptions, and implications of the dominant theoretical frameworks in classical sociology, including conflict theory, structural functionalism, and symbolic interaction theory.
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5.00 Credits
Provides an analysis of the major theoretical perspectives that provide the conceptual basis for sociological research and analysis. Emphasis is on the terminology, assumptions, and implications of the dominant theoretical frameworks in contemporary sociology, such as ethnomethodology, critical theory, contemporary feminism, rational choice, and post-modernism. Prerequisite: SOC 301 or equivalent course.
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5.00 Credits
Sociological social psychology focuses on the construction of cultural meaning, the use of symbols to convey meaning, and meanings and symbols as the basis of interaction. Topics include language and socialization, processes by which meanings are negotiated, the production of the social self, presentation of self, self-fulfilling prophesies, group differences in the construction of meanings, and he effects of inequality in the production of cultural meaning. GE T3
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5.00 Credits
A sociological analysis of the social problems and issues currently addressed by human services agencies. Includes examination of the social philosophy upon which the emergence of the field of human services is based, as well as the role of community resources and values in the development of "helping services" agencies. Alternative models for organizing human services in the future are explored.
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5.00 Credits
An examination of the nature, sources and consequences of power, with emphasis placed on contemporary American society. Attention is given to the exercise of power on various levels of analysis, from face-to-face interaction to total societies. The relation of power to problems of social order and change is also considered.
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5.00 Credits
This course surveys past and present experiences and perceptions of social deviance in American society. This involves assessing the history and consequences of deviance and deviant behavior specifically as the definition of deviance changes across time and space. It includes discussion of the theories sociologists advance to explain deviance, the social and demographic distribution of deviance, and an analysis of the efficacy of social policy designed to control and/or eliminate deviance.
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5.00 Credits
An analysis of the sociological approaches in the study of crime at the local, regional, national, and global levels. It includes discussion of how new definitions of crime have emerged across time, the theories sociologists have advanced to explain crime, and the social and demographic distribution of crime. Attention is also given to how societies have responded to crime and criminal behavior: the police, the judiciary, and the penal system. The effectiveness of these responses to crime will also be considered.
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