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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Course focuses on basic concepts, research, and theories involved in increasing the understanding of human behavior and human societies. Utilizing a sociological perspective, the interrelations among human societies, individuals, organizations, and groups are analyzed. Topics of analysis include culture, social interaction, social institutions, social stratification, community, and various social change strategies. Numerous contemporary social problems and issues such as racial and ethnic relations, sexism, class bias, and homophobia are discussed. 3 CREDIT S
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Course critically examines major contemporary social problems from the perspectives of social institutions, culture, inequality, socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, special interest organizations, political and economic structures, and social policy. Content analyzes various causes of several major problems including physical health, chemical dependency, crime, poverty, family, discrimination, and urban problems. Course explores the impact social problems have on different groups and discusses possible solutions to social problems. 3 CREDIT S
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Course provides critical examination of issues of race and ethnicity in the world, with special emphasis on the U.S. Students explore concepts, theoretical perspectives, and research on patterns of cooperation and conflict between different racial and ethnic groups. Sources of prejudice, discrimination, power relations and stratification are discussed. Instruction covers history and present status of various major racial and ethnic groups, including some white ethnics, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Students examine contemporary problems and issues in the area of racial and ethnic relations. 3 CREDIT S
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Family, the basic unit of society, is studied from a social, economic, psychological, and multicultural framework. Family is examined as a cultural construction, and interactive system, and organization, and a social institution. Topics include family patterns in various cultures, relationships within the family, family influences on personality development, marital roles, mate selection, parent-child relations, family dissolution, and reorganization. 3 CREDIT S
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Course analyzes varying status, roles, and life opportunities of women in different historical periods and contemporary America. Content examines the socialization process of women and how and why specific roles are assigned to women. Class discusses consequences of women's roles on individuals and society. Other topics of discussion include: how women's roles vary by class, racial, and ethnic background; special problems and issues facing women; women and work; the feminist movement; and past and present strategies used by women for achieving social change. 3 CREDIT S
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Of many institutions that sociologists study, sports is arguably the least studied in proportion to its societal impact. Yet many of us feel the influence and power of sports in contemporary American popular culture. This course is a critical examination of sports in contemporary American popular culture. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Among the major issues facing American education today that will be studied are school as a social system; schooling and socio-economic factors; the role of values in education; the mass media and education; philosophies of teaching and learning; controversial subject matter; education and the future; and education/educators as forces for societal, cultural and personal transformation. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Course covers many contemporary medical issues facing women in America. Content examines past and present institutional nature of the American medical profession and its delivery of health care for women. Class analyzes various other health care organizations and the quality of health care offered women. Other topics include women's responsibility and autonomy in relation to their health; family, work, and other societal factors affecting women's health; violence against women; women's health care centers; and how women are changing health care institutions. 3 CREDIT S
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Course analyzes past and current research and historical and cultural perspectives on contemporary American sexuality. Content examines the broad range of attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, practices, and myths pertaining to sexuality. Topics of analysis include psychological, emotional, physiologi- cal, and developmental aspects of human sexuality. Content also covers sexuality over the life cycle, socialization, dating, marriage, family, different sexual orientations, law, relationships, contraceptives, and sexual responsibility. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with discussion of Chicago's neighborhoods and developing into national and international basic geography, the early part of the course is designed to accustom students to the major geographic regions, countries and cities as well as the vocabulary and terminology of social geography. The body of the course involves students in investigating global patterns, such as nation-states, religion, and the environment, to further their understanding of global cultures and major issues of the 21st century. 3 CREDIT S
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