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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Introduction to major theoretical perspectives and research on public and private organizations, such as corporations, schools and health-care facilities. Formal and informal structures, the relationship between organizations and their environments, leadership, decision-making and labor markets.
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Prereq: any one of Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Introduces students to the main concepts of global health, with a particular emphasis on sociological and structural determinants of health. Focuses on the demographic and epidemiological transitions, gender and reproductive health, human rights, and the global bur-den of disease. Evaluates the role of international institutions, such as the World Bank and non-governmental organizations, in the organization and delivery of health services in underdeveloped countries. Understanding the root causes of health disparities and strategies for the achievement of health equity is central to the course.
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Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. The study of adult crime, defined as violation of legal norms. Focuses on problems of measurement and attempts to explain crime as a social phenomenon and a cultural product. Includes in-depth analysis of various forms and classes of crimes and their victims.
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Prereq: any SOC 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. A survey of sociological research on domestic violence and the criminal justice system. Examines the historical and cultural changes that contributed to the classification of domestic violence as crime, the characteristics of domestic assault, and the variety of criminal justice interventions into domestic violence.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Soc 255. Overview of the social organization of the criminal justice system in the United States. Examination of the organizations that create and enforce the criminal law as well as major issues currently confronting this system (plea bargaining, discrimination, limitations on due process).
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any SOC 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Review of research on the organization of law enforcement. Topics include impact of legal and organizational controls on police behavior, police use of deadly force, minorities and policing, and community policing.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Examines the sociocultural/ sociopolitical conditions that contribute to women being victims or perpetrators of crime. The course has three parts: 1) theoretical framework; 2) victimization and harm; and 3) crime and punishment. Students explore various normative values and institutional sites as the source of women's deviant careers, including gender and sexuality norms, family, economic, corporation, law, and criminal justice.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Soc 260, 268 or permission. Examines systems and interactional perspectives on marriage and family dynamics. The focus of this course is on family adaptation as a function of system processes and interactional patterns.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Analysis of the historical origins and spread of public education, the internal organization of schools and classrooms and the social impact of education. Schooling as a major form of socialization and status placement; political and legal bases of education; non-formal schooling; education and nation-state formation.
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Prereq: any SOC 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269, and 302. Examination of current sociological research on the ways in which the creation and application of law are conditioned by class, racial, gender, and ethnic inequalities in society. Applies several general sociological theories of stratification to a range of cases in both civil and criminal law.
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