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4.00 Credits
The course will take an interdisciplinary look at the complex interrelationships between population, the environment and economic development. Two hundred years after Thomas Malthus wrote his famous treatise on population, the debate continues. Does population growth spell environmental disaster? How should it be controlled? What are the implications for economic growth, wellbeing, and social justice? Critical global issues such as environmental degradation, restrictive family planning policies, international migration, and food security are all implicated in these persistent and often explosive debates. During the semester, this course will examine the leading theories for understanding the interactions between population growth, environmental quality and economic development, as well as case studies and policy questions from around the world. Among the issues covered will be debates over the earth's carrying capacity, demographic transitions in the Third World, relationships between fertility levels, gender equality and development, national immigration policies, poverty and resource degradation, food security, and the role of technological change and social institutions. Four hours. Ms. Gill.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the structure and functions of the family, with emphasis on the changing nature of the family in our society. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of family structures and to analyze values underlying family dynamics and change. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 412. Three hours. Mr. London.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on the diversity of cultures. The cultures studied range from preliterate to industrialized. Four hours. Mr. London.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys, from a number of theoretical perspectives, the nature and range of social problems, the conditions that give rise to them, and the methods by which society attempts to cope with them. Three hours. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops the social and cultural sources of our hopes, values and fears toward matters of dying and death. Beginning with historical and cross-cultural analyses of death orientations, the course proceeds to sociologically develop the role of religion, philosophy, psychology, science, politics and medicine in shaping our orientations toward war, abortion, suicide, environmental destruction, organ transplants, euthanasia, funeral ritual and capital punishment. It concludes with analyses of the experiences of those who die and those who survive, including Kubler-Ross's studies of the stages of death, the out-of-body sensations reported by those surviving clinical death, and the experiences associated with grief and bereavement. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 319. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Ms. Gill.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies behavior that violates norms (e.g., crime, delinquency, drug addition, or suicide) and mechanisms of social control (e.g., law enforcement, courts, prison, and probation) and implications of these for social policy. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Ms. Bissler.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines African-American studies as an interdisciplinary academic area. For this reason, the course analyzes the sociology, psychology, politics, economics, history, and culture of African-Americans from historical, contemporary, national, and international perspectives. In studying African-Americans from perspectives, the student will better understand the internal dynamics of minority group life in the United States; in addition, the student will better understand the impact of African-Americans on the larger dominant culture as well as the reverse, the impact of the larger culture on African-Americans. Interracial, interethnic, as well as interclass issues will be examined. Same as BLST 201. Three hours. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
This course take an interdisciplinary approach to examining the field of disability studies, and develops specific skills and tools vital to the student who would read, research, or write in the field, and ultimately grapple with the most important issues. The major strands in the course will include seminal readings within the discipline of disability studies, identification of the most complex and unresolved issues in the field, familiarity with both the qualitative and quantitative methodologies that sociologists and other researchers use to study disability issues, and the development and refinement of an intellectual sensitivity to the uniquely unstable identity associated with disability. Studies will look at disability from a variety of vantage points, ranging from the broader impact of disability on the social otherness to the individual and specific experiences of disability-related stigma and discrimination. Three hours. Mr. Trammell.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to African society and culture from an historical, anthropological, and sociological perspective. Relying on fiction and ethnography as well as research literature from several disciplines, it takes four complementary approaches to understanding Africa. The first, "mythbusting" approach, challenges the misconceptions many Americans hold about Africa. The second, historical approach, identifies the transformations and influences from the past that shape contemporary life in Africa. The third, case study approach, highlights the great range of diversity on the African continent socially, culturally, and politically. Finally, the course takes a critical and analytical approach to understanding social problems in Africa and identifying potential solutions. Counts on the major in international studies/Africa and the African Diaspora emphasis. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. London.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the major concepts and methods developed for gaining insight into dominant-minority relations. It considers the past and present positions of ethnic and racial minorities in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Three hours. Staff.
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