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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focus is on the social construction of madness. Compares the different ways madness has been defined and treated throughout history and in different cultures. Relationship between those labeled mad, those who label, and the sociocultural context will be examined. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of crime, criminal behavior, and punishment through a variety of historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives. Offered on sufficient demand.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the etiologies and use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) in the U.S. Also studies past and present patterns of ATOD, their causes, social and legal aspects, treatment, and the political economy of drug trafficking. Offered every semester.
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0.50 - 9.00 Credits
Examines a range of social conditions, arrangements, and behaviors typically defined as problems in modern society. Applies sociological analysis to understand how problems arise from the organization of society, and the processes by which conditions become identified as social problems, and how ideology and power shape responses to social problems. Fulfills Social and Behavioral Sciences Foundation. Fulfills U.S. Diversity requirement. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the basic concepts of culture and their application, first to the American family and then to the family in other cultures. Fulfills Cultures - U.S. Diversity. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we draw on sociological and interdisciplinary frameworks to examine comparative health care systems, social origins of disease and health inequalities, biomedicine as a cultural system, social construction of disease, medicalization and social control, and alternative healing practices, perspectives, and politics. Fulfills one of the Foundation - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Fulfills Cultures - U.S. Diversity.
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3.00 Credits
Critically analyzes religion as an institutional structure and belief system and explores the relationship of religion to social change and organization. Emphasis on religion in the contemporary United States, both the uniquely American aspects of religion and in comparison to the broader diversity of religious expression globally. Fulfills one of the Foundations - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Fulfills Cultures - U.S. Diversity. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Considers the way in which values and ideas are socially constructed, with specific focus on the relationship between food and society. A comparative, cross-cultural analysis that examines food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption. Includes nutrition, social eating disorders, religious prescriptions and proscriptions, food and poverty, fast food, and world hunger. Offered on sufficient demand.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the ways that public debates over art, aesthetics, and taste mask fundamental conflicts of culture, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Examines controversies over the public funding of historical and contemporary cultural projects as well as the fluid boundaries between the taste for high and popular culture. Offered fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the basic methods of quantitative empirical research in sociology. Focus on collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: STA 215 and (either SOC 101 or SOC 105) and three additional credits in sociology.
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Prerequisites: STA 215 and (either SOC 101 or SOC 105) and three additional credits in sociology.
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