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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This is a placeholder course to assist students and advisors in planning to fulfill the WCore requirement of WCore Science & Math courses.
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1.00 Credits
Tranfer elective that will count in Social and Behavioral Sciences WCore.
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4.00 Credits
Student explore intercultural communication concepts and theories. Students learn to become flexible communicators by: understanding concepts such as cultural value patterns and cultural-ethnic identity; exploring the process of crossing boundaries such as the development of culture shock; knowing how attitudes and beliefs influence behaviors and how cultural values are expressed through language. Cultural boundaries examined in this course include culture, race, and ethnicity. (WCore: WCSBS and DE)
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4.00 Credits
Learn about how sociocultural anthropology looks at the different ways groups throughout the world construct their reality through the interrelationship of systems of communication, kinship and marriage patterns, gender and sexuality, beliefs in the supernatural, patterns of subsistence, and various political and economic systems. When taught as a Learning Community, the primary focus will be on the interrelationships of sexuality, gender, kinship, and marriage. By comparing the ways that people behave in different cultures, you will begin to understand the abstract concept of culture and how important it is in shaping ideas. May be taken as an alternative to ANTH 252 as one of the requirements for the anthropology minor. (WCore: WCSBS and RE)
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3.00 Credits
This class explores economic ideas through the effort to enhance economic growth by extending the market, and the counter movement to protect human beings, nature, and productive organizations from market forces. Extending the market involves transforming human beings, nature, and productive organization into commodities. This manifests itself in crises, inequality, environmental degradation, and so on. (WCore: WCSBS)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the complex interaction among global issues and challenges across multiple fields like ecology, economy, culture, society, politics, and health. (WCore: WCSBS and DE)
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4.00 Credits
This Social and Behavioral Sciences WCore course will explore ways in which environment, race, culture, and social class shape immigrants' educational experiences. We will read and analyze accounts of immigrants' experiences in public schools,, and critique perspectives regarding immigrant success in United States society and interact directly with immigrant students at a local school. We will explore differences in the educational outcomes of older and newer immigrants and look at the role of schools and other community organizations in the lives of immigrant youth. (WCore: WCSBS and DE)
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4.00 Credits
Focusing on various social problems such as poverty, unemployment, crime, substance abuse, racism, discrimination, gender inequality, sexual inequality, and global inequality, this course utilizes sociological analysis to examine how social problems are defined and dealt with within the United States and other parts of the world. (WCore: WCSBS and DE)
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4.00 Credits
Examines ongoing issues concerning cognitive and social aspects of language. In exploring both popular and scientific perspectives on language, students develop skills in critical thinking while exploring elements of linguistic analysis. This course is framed around the following questions: What are the components of the language system? How do we acquire this system? And, how is this system used in society? In short: this course uses the lens of linguistics to examine real-life experiences. (WCore: WCSBS)
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4.00 Credits
Providing a broad overview of sociology, this course employs the "sociological imagination" to explore the social contexts that shape people's perceptions, actions, interactions, organizations, and opportunities. (WCore: WCSBS and DE)
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