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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The various factors affecting social change are discussed, including technological developments and social movements. The extent to which social change produces social problems is analyzed and the unintended consequences of change efforts are noted.
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3.00 Credits
Selected students receive an opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge of the research process through involvement in current faculty research. Prerequisite: SOCI 111 Principles of Sociology or permission of the chairperson
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the interaction between the organization of society and the development of human personality, including examination of the processes by which human beings create their societies and in turn are molded and constrained by these societies.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces law and society as seen in their intimate interaction, the relation of law to social structure, social change, and conflict resolution. It examines the socio-psychological aspects of judicial behavior and the legal system (lawyers, courts, police, and corrections) in our society. It emphasizes the law as a vehicle of social engineering, a means of social communication, and an essential tool in the implementation of social values.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an analytical view of the impact of social, economic and political factors on human relations in the Middle East. The institutions of the Middle East-the family, school, government and church-are studied in detail. A comprehensive study is made of contemporary politics and diplomacy.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
This work experience course provides reinforcement of the department's academic program in traditional and nontraditional work sites such as the Juvenile and Domestic Court, the Division of Youth and Family Services, and the Department of Welfare. The seminar is taken by students who obtain a Cooperative Education job placement related to Sociology for each semester of their job placement. The faculty supervisor guides and gives assignments that relate sociological theory to the student's job assignment and career goals.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines major types of research design and techniques: interview, questionnaire, experiment, social survey, and participant observation. Methods of data processing and analysis are also considered. The course emphasizes the critical reading and understanding of research studies. Prerequisite: SOCI 111 Principles of Sociology
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3.00 Credits
Students gain direct experience in research techniques by participating in a professionally designed research project. Focusing on a given project, they perform research tasks such as sample selection, questionnaire construction, interviewing, coding and data, computer processing, literature search, and analysis of results. Prerequisite: SOCI 360 Sociological Research Methods
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the radical social ideas of Rousseau, Comte, Marx, Smith, and others which have influenced modern social sciences in general and sociology in particular. The course also stresses the social scientific methods developed by Durkheim, Pareto, Weber, and others to analyze contemporary and future societies. Prerequisites: SOCI 111 Principles of Sociology and SOCI 113 Social Problems
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent study is offered to advanced students who have demonstrat-ed the ability and interest to do creative, original research. The coursework is carried out under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of the chairperson.
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