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3.00 Credits
Small teams examine various risk management scenarios and make appropriate recommendations. Students conduct a risk management review for a local small business and make appropriate recommendations. Emphasis on enhancing written and oral communication skills. Prerequisites: RMI 315; RMI 365 or 415.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Studies or research undertaken by academically qualified students under the guidance of a faculty member. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 semester hours. Prerequisites: RMI or ASB major and consent of RMI program director.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological analysis of current social problems in the U.S.: poverty, racism, sexism, agism, medical care, the environment, population, urban disorganization, crime, juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, drug addiction, family disorganization, and mental illness. Use of different perspectives promotes a broad understanding of the study of social problems. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Social research methods: research design and models of observation, including single subject and program evaluation, quantitative and qualitative methods, sampling techniques, questionnaire construction, types of surveys, measurement problems, and data analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the construction of gender in non-western societies, concentrating on the way gender shapes and is shaped by power relations in these societies. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course examines modes of social organization and dimensions of culture worldwide. Students are introduced to the diversity of human cultures and to anthropological theories and methods through ethnographic examples drawn from a variety of non-Western cultures. The course focuses on processes and institutions of enculturation, including economic, kinship, religious, political, and aesthetic practices. It also examines cultural changes associated with globalization. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes nature, forms, and problems of social "diversity"with emphasis on patterns of difference and commonality, advantage, and disadvantage in the area of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and physical disability. A particular focus will be on ways inequalities in wealth, education, employment, health, the criminal justice system, popular culture, and the political process are reproduced and challenged in contemporary societies. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the American family, with two major areas of focus: the structural diversity of families within the U.S. and the ways in which family practices reflect, reproduce, or challenge society's norms, values, and modes of social organization. Prerequisites: SOC 100 or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
Comparative study of non-Western family systems, with a focus on cross-cultural differences and the potential conflicts of migration. Varying focus on families of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
Inequality in income, wealth, prestige, and power. Theories explaining roots of and changes in inequality. Emphasis on the U.S.; variations in the extent and forms of inequality across different nations. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor.
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