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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC An introduction to education as a social process and a social institution. Topics include: the social functions of education, the school as a formal organization and social system, social factors affecting the educational process, and an examination of change and innovation in education.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: PIGP The examination of selected racial/ethnic groups, social classes, sexual orientations, religions, and nationalities from a sociological perspective. This course focuses on acquiring an understanding of diversity and multiculturalism in modern U.S. society. Topics include such issues as identity, political economy, social organization, social change, and social movements.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: PIGP An examination of the short-lived, and often extraordinary, noninstitutionalized behavioral phenomena of crowds, mobs, riots, panics, and crazes that seem to periodically disturb the orderly flow of human societal life. Also examined will be the processes by which these "social aberrations" may become institutionalized, as social movements, as part of a new and emerging sociocultural order.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: PIGP A study of the sociological, psychological, and cultural approaches and problems related to the aging process, with an emphasis on what it means to grow old in U.S. society.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC This course examines of the role of sport in U.S. society. Topics include sport and social values, socialization into sport, the political and economic aspects of sport, sport and violence, sport and education, the African American athlete, and women in sport.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the theories and practices of urban planning. It approaches planning as a visionary field, a technical profession, and a political and governmental function. This comprehensive approach will place emphasis on planning and development issues in the U.S., but it will also look at other societies for the purpose of comparison.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC, PIGP In this course students read works of black fiction to critically examine U.S. society from the late slavery period to the present. The objectives of this course are: for students to gain a more comprehensive understanding of U.S. society; for students to consider the different histories that have been lived in the U.S. based on racial identity; and for students to appreciate the centrality of race and class in the development of American social, political, cultural, and economic institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC, PIGP With a particular emphasis on Jamaica, this course provides an overview of Caribbean society and culture from the beginning of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Specific attention will be given to the themes of colonization, slavery, culture, and resistance. Students are asked to consider the role European colonization played in shaping Carribean societies and culture for the bad and the good, and the role of the world's most powerful nations in detracting from the self-determination and global competency of? less-developed former colonies.? This course seeks to engender cultural competence in students and have them use Caribbean cultures as a lens through which they critically evaluate their racial, ethnic, gendered, national, and socioeconomic selves.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC The city has been both the subject and the site of most forms of contemporary popular culture, as well as the guardian of high culture and the arts. This course explores this connection between city and culture. On the one hand, it looks at how urban communities, city spaces, and formal decision making within the modern metropolis facilitate the production and dissemination of a variety of cultural forms. On the other hand, it looks at a number of popular culture forms with an eye on how the city is represented in them. While this course emphasizes sociological analysis and social processes, its approach is interdisciplinary. It incorporates observations and knowledge coming out of the visual and fine arts, history, communication studies, psychology, and anthropology, and recognizes the contributions that these disciplines have made to our understanding of urban cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Counts towards: CUC This course will ground students in an understanding of cities as critical nodes within a world that is growing ever more socially, politically, and economically connected.? It will investigate the causes and effects of this interconnectedness as well as the methods utilized to measure it. ??It will explore how the global context shapes urban issues, examining the urban networks across which capital, labor, and ideas flow.
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