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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Urban and rural communities. Impact of community, social context, ecology on institutions and people. Social structure of the suburbs. Sociological factors of planning in metropolitan areas. Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Changing images of the city explored through art, film, television, and other media; development of urban spaces for cultural production and consumption; alternative lifestyles of different communities. Research may include ethnography, interview projects, media analysis, and visual documentation. Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Society's relationship to the natural environment. Origins of major environmental stresses and political conflicts associated with them. Role of society's utilization of natural resources in creating crises, how society identifies environmental stresses as social problems and how social responses to environmental problems lead to political conflicts. Outcomes of environmental conflicts; development of integrated, viable solutions to socio-environmental problems. Prerequisite: any one of the following: Core Curriculum 2.2, 2.3, 20.XX, Core Studies 3, 4, 9, Environmental Studies 1, Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Processes that create inequality and how they impact the uneven distribution of environmental degradation and protection. Placement of hazardous facilities in minority communities, unequal protection of environmental health, employment structure of hazardous industrial workplaces, socio-ecological conditions of migrant farm workers, extraction of resources from Native lands, population control initiatives directed at peoples-of-color, and the national and transnational export of toxic waste. Prerequisite: any one of the following: Core Curriculum 2.2, 2.3, 20.XX, Core Studies 3, 4, 9, Environmental Studies 1, Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Development of social work as a profession; interconnection of theory and practice; generic problem-solving tasks, relationships; code of ethics; fields of practice. (Not open to students who have completed Sociology 30.11.) Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of the interaction perspective in sociological theory. Social rules explaining such sociological concerns as maintenance of identity; ascription of motives and intention; production of mental illness in interaction; production of conversation and language; the idea, orientation, process of sociological inquiry. (Not open to students who have completed Sociology 19.2.) Prerequisite: Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5 or 7, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Explores the history of social welfare in the United States from the Elizabethan Poor Law to the present. Examines the social, economic, and political underpinnings of the changing definitions of need, responsibility for providing relief, and the right to services. (Not open to students who have completed Sociology 32.11.) Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Traces the evolution of a private trouble to a public issue and the attempts at resolving the issue by means of social policy initiatives. Follows social policy from the legislative stage through the creation of specific service programs. Compares the impact of the services on the lives of individuals with the original objective of the policy. Case studies from work, education, housing, child welfare, health, and mental health. (Not open to students who have completed Sociology 32.11.) Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours lecture, 7 hours fieldwork; 5 credits Students are placed in a social service agency and work directly with clients under supervision; learn generalist practices within different social systems. Field notes, readings, process recordings, and conferences are required. Students must register in 32.6 in the fall term and in 32.7 in the spring term. (Sociology 32.6 is not open to students who have completed Sociology 39.11. Sociology 32.7 is not open to students who have completed Sociology 39.12.) Prerequisite or Corequisite of 32.6: Sociology 30. Prerequisite of 32.7: Sociology 32.6.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Examination of the structure and function of the family and its relationship with such other institutions of the society as religion, the economy, and the political system; family as a unit of interaction. Family types will be compared: the traditional family, the dual-career family, and the single-parent household; alternatives to the family will also be discussed. Prerequisite: Core Curriculum 2.3 with a grade of B- or higher, Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology 5, or permission of the chairperson.
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