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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Students planning to pursue a course of study outside the United States at an institution with a standing arrangement with the University of North Alabama may enroll in sections of SA 499 for a combined total not to exceed 15 credit hours. SA 499 is a temporary course registration designation. Upon the student's return to UNA and receipt of all documentation from the partner institution, courses taken abroad will be matched with equivalent UNA courses for the assignment of credit. Returning students will receive general elective credit only for courses suitable for university credit but without an equivalent UNA course. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
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3.00 Credits
This course presents students with an opportunity to learn sociological concepts, theory and methodology through analysis of assigned readings drawn from academic journals and brief but topically specific texts. Students are expected to demonstrate understanding through a series of written assignments designed to promote critical thinking as well as inter-disciplinary application of the sociological imagination as such is applied to those areas central to the discipline (e.g., culture, social structure, social stratification and inequality, socialization, deviance, crime and crime management, social groups and group dynamics, community and population, social institutions and social change). This course is open to students in the Honors Program and other students with prior departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
A study of origin and evolution of the family as a social institution; the relationships of family structure to social organization; theories, functions, forms, and processes of the family in selected cultures. Also listed as WS 223 but creditable only in field for which registered. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the field of anthropology, with emphasis on the prehistoric development of man and cultures. (Offered on sufficient demand)
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of social, psychological, and physiological approaches to the development of sex identity and sex roles; effect of differential socialization methods from infancy through adulthood; impact on both men and women of contemporary changes in sex roles. Also listed as WS 300 but creditable only in field for which registered. (Fall, even-numbered years)
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3.00 Credits
Application of sociological concepts and principles to the study of health professions, medical institutions, community medical organization, and definition and distribution of illnesses. (Fall, odd-numbered years)
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3.00 Credits
Designed to examine the relationship between the various structures and institutions in society and aging. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between the family, religion, education, the government and the economic system and individuals as they age. (Fall, odd-numbered years)
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3.00 Credits
Provides an understanding of dying, death and bereavement that will assist individuals to better cope with their own deaths and with the deaths of others. (Fall, even-numbered years)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the selection and formulation of research problems; project design and sampling procedures; data collection and preparation of reports. (Fall, Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to expose students to computer applications with the social sciences and provide them with hands-on experience managing, transforming, analyzing, and displaying social science data. It is recommended that students take SO 310, Research Methods, before taking this course. Special fee: $30.00. (Spring)
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