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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the relationship between education and society. In the course, a variety of theoretical approaches and contemporary issues in the field of education will be discussed. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, gender and race inequalities in education, the role of schools as agents of selection and socialization, and the nature of educational reform movements. Class participation and the experiences of students will be emphasized. This is an education-focused course.
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Social inequality is a prominent and persistent feature of modern society. Social stratification theory attempts to explain the causes of inequality and the reasons for its persistence. This course will address such questions as: Why are some people rich and some people poor? Why does inequality persist? Who gets ahead? Can men and women get the same jobs? Do different races have the same opportunities? Is inequality necessary? Potential topics include inner-city and rural poverty, welfare dependency, homelessness, status attainment and occupational mobility, racial and ethnic stratification, gender stratification and class theory. This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
Current changes in male and female roles and the reasons for these changes are examined. Existing gender differences, various explanations for them, and proposals for change are discussed and evaluated. This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the sociological foundations of teaching and learning in America's elementary and secondary school classrooms. The class begins with an examination of teaching as a profession. What attracts individuals to the teaching profession, and why do they leave? What constitutes professional success for teachers? Next, we'll examine how local context shapes the work that teachers do, looking at some elements of schools and communities that impact the nature of teachers? work. The course concludes by looking at the teacher's role in producing educational success by considering two enduring educational problems: how to foster student engagement, and how to teach students of differing abilities within the same classroom. In addition to research in the sociology of teaching, students will be exposed to teacher narratives of success and struggle. This is an education-focused course.
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3.00 Credits
In this class we will examine cultural dimensions of important social processes, and we will survey contemporary sociological approaches to analyzing culture. Examples will include readings on home and work, social hierarchies, political culture, media and the arts, and social change.
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3.00 Credits
Much of the violence in contemporary society - whether it is domestic abuse, school shootings, gang warfare, video games, or inter-ethnic conflict - has something to do with gender. This course explores the connection between gender role socialization and the expression of conflict or aggression. Through readings, discussions, films and projects, students will be encouraged to examine sex differences in violent behavior as the outcome of complex processes. We will try to understand those processes better and develope the ability to describe the causes and their effects.
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3.00 Credits
What's Catholic about sociology? What's sociological about Catholic Social Tradition? What does all this mean for sociology majors, what they study, and how this may affect their careers and lives after graduation? This course is a critical examination of the links between Catholic social thought and sociology as a discipline. We will engage these ideas through an experimental, team-taught seminar format. Readings will include core statements of Catholic social tradition, critiques thereof, and autobiographical essays written by sociologists and others who are dedicated to social justice.
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3.00 Credits
This class is an introduction to the way that sociologists study the cultural dimensions of the social world. Culture is here defined as all objects, ideas and practices that people attach some meaning to. We will survey contemporary sociological approaches to analyzing culture along the way tracing and discussing the way that culture and meanings are produced, disseminated, interpreted and used by social actors. We will investigate how cultural objects are produced in mass media industries, how social boundaries and social hierarchies (such as those based on gender, race and class) are created through the consolidation of cultural categories, and how social practices related to the consumption of cultural objects have become a central facet of life modern societies.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of gender and society. We will study how gender is constructed through social interaction and how it is patterned in a wide gamut of structural locations, such as the following: education, media, family, the field of medicine, and business and the economy. Major themes in this course include the social construction of gender, how people "do" gender, and patriarchy and the perpetuation of gender inequality in our society. After exploring the core characteristics of patriarchy and its power as a social system, the final project in this course will work toward solutions to gender inequality.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to show students how to interpret and critically evaluate statistics commonly used to describe, predict, and evaluate in the social sciences, as well as many areas of the business and/or medical world. The focus is on a conceptual understanding of what the statistic does, means, and what assumptions are made from it. Hands-on experience in using data analysis is part of the course.
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