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  • SOCI 420: Law and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    The focus of this course is on the reciprocal relationship between law and society, and on the social nature of the law. Topics include: comparative legal systems, theories of law, and various issues in the sociology of the law, including mental illness and obscenity. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 352. Offered alternate years. Four hours. Mr. London.
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  • SOCI 430: Health,Illness and Healing

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    This course is an upper-level reading and research-intensive survey of sociological and anthropological ideas and theories about health and illness. In particular, the course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-medicine); students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international. Topics of study will include, but are not limited to, nature of disease, the doctorpatient relationship, the structure and dynamics of health care facilities, the structure and role of medical occupations and their occupational ideologies, the growth of medical technology and its challenge to medicine's moral stability, the medical research process (including ethical issues), problems of discrimination and inequality, as well as health care policy. It is likely to be of interest to sociology majors and students intending to pursue a career in the health professions. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 365. Offered alternate years. Four hours. Ms. Gill.
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  • SOCI 440: Environmental Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    In 1962 the publication of Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING rekindled the American public's concern about our environment. It is considered to be the catalyst for the contemporary environmental movement. More recently Wendell Berry wrote in "The Body and the Earth" that the way we areliving creates serious, fundamental problems-the breakdown of families and marriage, communities, our spiritual, emotional and physical health, and of the earth's ecosystems. Implicit in his holistic critique is C. Wright Mills' "sociological imagination" that can link personatroubles, environmental problems and the way society is organized. The three main goals of this course are as follows: 1) acquaint the student with sociological perspectives on the relationship between society and the environment; 2) use these perspectives and concepts to analyze issues or problems like global warming and population growth; and 3) encourage critical thinking in considering alternatives in values/ethics, social practices/ behavior and policy. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 301 or permission of instructor. Offered every semester. Four Hours. Mr. Dunkel.
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  • SOCI 450: Field Studies in Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    This course provides an opportunity for interested students to gain practical experience with the application of sociological theories, methodologies, principles, and techniques to actual research situations in the field. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. One term only. Junior and senior sociology majors. Three hours. Staff.
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  • SOCI 455: Internship in Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    Students in this course are placed in a social agency or business and follow an arranged set of readings relevant to their internship experience with their instructor and site supervisor. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. Open to seniors only. Application required; see Internship Program. Three hours. Staff.
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  • SOCI 496-498: Senior Project

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    This two-semester sequence allows qualified senior majors in the department to research a topic intensively and independently. A formal paper and an oral examination are required. Majors who intend to attempt a senior project are urged to notify the department of their intention during the spring term of their junior year at the latest. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 and permission of instructor. Senior sociology majors. Six hours. Staff.
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  • SPAN 111: Elementary Spanish

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    Essentials of Spanish, stressing the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing. Required additional scheduled session of language practice. Given in Spanish. Designed for students with no experience of Spanish. Three hours. Staff.
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  • SPAN 112: Elementary Spanish

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    Second half of Elementary SPAN. Required additional scheduled session of language practice. Prerequisite: SPAN 111. Given in Spanish. Three hours. Staff.
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  • SPAN 115: Intensive Elementary Spanish

    4.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    Intensive introduction to Spanish, emphasizing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Designed for students who have taken Spanish but who do not place in intermediate Spanish. Admittance through placement testing only. Students who have taken SPAN 111 and/or SPAN 112 may not enroll in SPAN 115. Required additional scheduled session of language practice. Given in Spanish. Four hours. Staff.
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  • SPAN 212: Intermediate Spanish

    3.00 Credits
    Randolph-Macon College

    Second half of Intermediate Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 211. Required additional scheduled session of language practice. Given in Spanish. Three hours. Staff.
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