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3.00 Credits
The course examines the parenting process and the tasks parents carry out as they raise children from birth through adolescence. The focus will be on effective parenting skills with the responsibility of fostering a stimulating learning environment and open channels of communication. Current family issues will be addressed. (Previously numbered: SOCL 170) 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to assist students in matching their college experience to their personal and professional development. Topics range from guidance in selecting a college curriculum to choosing and getting a job. Through processes and group interaction, students learn to assess their workplace competency and are encouraged in their pursuit of career and life planning. 2-4 sem. hrs. 2-4 crs. (Elective credit only.)
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3.00 Credits
Comparative analysis of legal systems; their relations to social structures and processes; investigation of social evolution as reflected in changing patterns of law; various theoretical perspectives in writings of Durkheim, Weber, Timasheff, Kelsen, and others; the development, maintenance, and change of American legal institutions. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical examination of the rights and responsibilities of parents and children, and of the rights and responsibilities of the state toward both, drawing on legal and non-legal case materials, as well as on classic and contemporary philosophical sources, and including a consideration of child abuse, foster care and adoption, divorce, and women’s liberation and its effect on the family. Not open to students who have taken PSYN/SOCL 222 Family in Transition. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to legal issues affecting older adults. Some of the topics to be covered are: health care proxies, living wills, medicare, medicaid, social security benefits, elder abuse, conservatorships, nursing homes and long term estates planning. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes violence problems challenging contemporary societies and their different kinds of possible manifestations. This covers a wide range from old forms of urban/ rural violence to the new and re-defined aspects of terrorism, including institutional / police violence; violence among generations, religions, gender and races. It takes into account the varied and multicultural meanings of the violence; its sources and results. Moreover, the course addresses violence as a global phenomenon. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
The nature and causes of criminal behavior as they relate to effective means of prevention and rehabilitation, theories of criminal behavior focused on the individual, the family, the neighborhood, and society as the primary causal factors; various interdisciplinary schemes also considered. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
Origins, philosophy, and objectives of the juvenile justice system; measures of delinquency; theoretical perspectives on delinquency; legal processes; roles of the actors and current trends within the juvenile justice system. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
A cross-cultural examination of family patterns viewed within the context of cultural variation throughout the world; relations of the family to other institutions; role of the family in the development of personality. Not open to students who have taken PSYN/BHSC/SOCL 202 Ethics and the Family. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to computers as a professional tool in the social and behavioral sciences. Topics include data collection, data description and data analysis (with statistical software, e.g., SPSS for Windows), presentation packages, use of the Internet, use of on-line professional data bases, computers in teaching and learning, and computerized techniques in psychological testing. Prerequisite: CISC/MATH 120 or equivalent. 3 sem. hrs. 3 crs.
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