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3.00 Credits
Examines the separate rights and responsibilities of the employer and employee, and the inherent conflict between management prerogatives and employee protections.
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Examines the structural problems facing labor administrative apparatus at the state and local levels. Regional problems related to organizing tasks are discussed within the framework of current labor law and collective bargaining techniques.
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This course begins with an overview of the history of evaluation methods and strategies. It examines how evaluation research contributes to the analysis of policy and program performance. Special emphasis will be given to how evaluators prepare and conduct evaluations, and what risks are associated with different evaluation strategies in the social sciences. Finally, the course will investigate how evaluation methods are currently applied to such areas as education, poverty reduction, criminal justice, and health care policies.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the social basis, functions, and effects of law, both as a profession and as a system of social control.
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3.00 Credits
With a comparative approach, this course analyzes how the criminal justice systems interconnect to countries' crime and crime control issues and to their broader economic and social issues and institutions. It focuses on how countries that have faced major political and social upheavals during the past several decades have struggled to develop workable crime control methods as well as methods of conflict resolution that provide justice for victims, fairness for those accused, and avenues for reconciliation. It also analyzes how global terrorism and internal criminal threats affect countries' ability to maintain and improve their citizens' civil liberties and human rights.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the institution of education through the lens of sociological theory. Areas to be analyzed include the growth of the educational system, the institution's role in creating equality of opportunity, measurement of school outcomes, cultural transmission through curriculum design, schools as organizations, and current reform movements. Sociology 241
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This course examines the social dynamics of relationships between humans and non-human animals, including wild animals, captive and domesticated animals, and companion animals. After considering the social connotations of the concept of "animal" itself, the course surveys the widerange of roles played by non-human animals in human societies, as well as the various ways in which humans interact with animals in diverse settings. A principal focus of the course is the effort to predict and explain such variation with sociological principles. Changes in the relationships between humans and non-humans are considered, and parallels between the treatment of non-humans and humans are critically assessed.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a general introduction to the multidisciplinary aspects of conflict, this course proceeds to a study of hate groups on the World Wide Web and then to various international conflicts. The essence of the course is extensive use of the Internet to gain information and to communicate with other students taking the course simultaneously throughout the world. Role playing, analytic reports, and a cooperative final project are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course involves a seminar and field trip to Italy. Focusing on a sociological perspective of the culture and art of Italy, the course addresses patronage, art markets, social change, the social content of art, cultural identity, artists' social roles, and subcultures. On-site visits to museums and public monuments are made in Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena, and Pompeii.
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Following the ideas of C. Wright Mills, this class connects the "personal troubles" of individual women with the"social issues" pertaining to women as a minority groupin the United States. It provides a sociological analysis of women in the major institutions in U.S. society, and highlights the intersection of race, class, and gender and the unique manner in which sociologists research these interconnections and women in general.
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