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3.00 Credits
American Sign Language (ASL) IV is a continuation of the intermediate level ASL III course. Emphasis is on further development of students' comprehension and production skills through a more advanced study of ASL discourse, grammatical structures, and semantics. Creative use of expression, classifiers, body posture, and signing space will be practiced along with videotext viewing and video production. Topics in Deaf culture and interaction with the Deaf community will be integral to the course.
Prerequisite:
SIGN 2110
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3.00 Credits
This course will assist the student in acquiring fluent fingerspelling through the use of intense receptive and expressive drills. Lexical borrowing and the semantic and morphological categories involved in restructuring English fingerspelled citation forms will be studied. Recordings of a variety of fingerspelling styles will be presented to ensure that the students acquire a comprehensive background. Students will also be recorded to allow for self-analysis of their fingerspelling skills.
Corequisite:
SIGN 2120 or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Provides a broad introduction to concepts related to the Deaf, Deaf culture, and the languages of people within Deaf communities in particular and Deaf society in general. The course examines current issues and languages in the Deaf community, including technology and diversity.
Corequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will require students work 45, 90, or 135 hours, depending on the internship placement. The internship will serve as an applied learning experience by observing, analyzing and participating in a related workplace.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the basic concepts and theories of sociology, as well as to the methods utilized in sociological research. The course will address how sociological concepts and theories can be utilized to analyze and interpret our social world, and how profoundly our society and the groups to which students belong influence them. Students will be given the opportunity to challenge their "takenforgranted" or "common sense" understandings about society, social institutions, and social issues. Special attention will also be paid to the intimate connections between their personal lives and the larger structural features of social life. In addition, the implications of social inequalities, such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class will be central to the course's examination of social life in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to social issues that are currently affecting the criminal justice system in the United States. The course will cover the history of the US criminal justice system and how our system compares with other countries. We will address how the U.S. criminal justice system attempts to create and preserve a balance between sustaining order, maintaining individual rights, and promoting justice. Important themes also include, but are not limited to: discussions of how crime and delinquency are measured, key correlates of crime, sociological approaches to researching crime, sociological theories of crime, the quality of crime data in the U.S. and how it is used to make public policy decisions, and the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1110
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn to understand and apply criminological theories that are produced within the field of sociology. These theories focus on how social structures, social contexts and particular kinds of social relationships influence the social activity of crime at both the micro and macro levels. Students will understand and analyze a variety of topics also pertinent to the study of crime, such as divergent definitions of crime, various correlates of criminal activities, criminal trends, and other key topics within the field of criminology.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1110
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to sociological theories that explain juvenile delinquency in the United States. The course will explore the history of the juvenile justice in the U.S. and the causes and solutions of juvenile delinquency. The course will also cover how the U.S. juvenile justice system works and how it is different from the adult criminal justice systems in the US. The course will examine policing of juvenile delinquents, juvenile rehabilitation, probation services, and approaches to address limitations of the current U.S. juvenile justice system.
Prerequisite:
SOCI 1110
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide an overview of the study of deviance and social control from multiple sociological perspectives. The instructor will present how sociologists research deviance and social control and the ethical issues involved in studying human subjects involved in these activities. The course also examines central sociological theories for understanding the causes of deviant behavior.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the sociology of gender and gendered inequalities. While analyzing how masculinity, femininity and other gender forms are socially constructed, we will also analyze how gender intersects with other forms of social stratification such as race, socio-economic status, disability and sexual orientation. Our analysis of gender will focus on gender socialization, gender identities, and how gender forms are deeply rooted and reproduced in social institutions, interactions and relationships.
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