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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269; Soc 210, 215 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Experimentation and tests of significance applied to research problems.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269; Soc 215, 320, 321; or permission of instructor. Theory and method of population analysis; measures of mortality, fertility and migration; population forecasting techniques.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core, SOC 320. Analysis of fertility or mortality issues in both developed and developing countries; proximate determinants of fertility; birth-spacing and family limitation practices; infant and child mortality; life expectancy.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core; SOC 330 highly recommended. Presents skills to conduct qualitative sociological research. Emphasizes ethnographic techniques such as direct observation, participant observation, intensive interviewing, data analysis, literature review, and report writing. Each student conducts original sociological research by entering a specific social setting, collecting and analyzing data within that setting, and producing a comprehensive paper on the findings.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core. Examines the economic, cultural and political components of globalization. Special topics include the new forms of inequality that have emerged with global interdependence and debates concerning the benefits and dangers associated with globalization.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core; SOC 355. A capstone research seminar in which students develop an individual project, write a review of previous research, and conduct an analysis using secondary data sources to study the effects of laws on society (e.g., consequences of no-fault divorce laws) and the social bases of legal change (e.g., factors influencing state adoption of sentencing guidelines).
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core and SOC 352. An in-depth examination of selected areas in sociological criminology.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core. Review of research on the organization of law enforcement. Topics include impact of legal and organization controls on police behavior, police use of deadly force, minorities and policing, and community policing.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core. Focus varies, depending on instructor. Emphasis on current research in family sociology. Topics may include family violence, demographic analysis of family structures, family life course development, family and the economy, parent-child interaction, family and social policy, and others.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: sociology core and SOC 361 or 368. Advanced study of topics and research presented in Soc 361: educational stratification, origins and expansion of educational systems in the United States and cross-nationally, school and classroom organization and their effects on student learning and socialization; interaction processes in classrooms.
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