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3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Acquaints students with the major issues and concepts pertinent to the field of gerontology. The course introduces various theoretical perspectives on aging, the changing trends in life expectancy and other demographic considerations, and the interrelationship between elders and key social institutions. It provides an overview of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional factors associated with aging.
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3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Examines how cities and city life are shaped by cultural, social, political, and economic forces operating at many different levels. Additionally, SOC 203 examines the history and theoretical roots of urban anthropology and sociology, ethnographic fieldwork in urban environment, and urban social organization in cross-cultural perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PREQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Develops an understanding of marriage, family and kinship. It examines the family as an institution and how social, cultural and personal factors influence family relations. The stability and diversity of the family will be explored, along with current trends and some alternative life styles. (Statewide Guaranteed Transfer Course SS3.)
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Introduces social research methods with an emphasis on the scientific method and the role of empirical inquiry into sociology. This course will include the study of methodologies of data collection and analysis, the logic of research, the role of theory, measurement, sampling and research designs. Field research and the professional norms and ethics of social research will also be covered.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or the equivalent recommended. Explores current social issues that result in societal problems. It focuses on such issues as civil liberties, gender discrimination, substance abuse, crime, poverty, and social change. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses, GT-SS3.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) Gives students the theoretical and factual background necessary to understand the phenomenon of gender stratification in American and other cultures. Students will be exposed to a history of gender stratification in human societies, theoretical explanations for this and insights into the consequences of gender differentiation in our world today. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses, GT-SS3.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Explores the variety of intergroup relations regarding race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other diversity issues. Patterns of prejudice, discrimination and possible solutions to these issues will be addressed.
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3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Explores the lives and roles of Chicanos and Chicanas (Americans of Mexican descent). It introduces students to the Chicano community, its historical, political and social development. It explores the ways in which Chicano communities interrelate with Anglo and multicultural societies as well as its future prospects.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Examines the nature, identification, and explanation of deviant categories. Theories, and philosophies as well as methods of treatment related to deviancy will also be considered. The course will study society's attempts to control, change, and institutionalize those acts, individuals or groups that a population may deem unacceptable. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses, GT-SS3.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. (3L) PRQ: REA 090 or equivalent assessment test score. Provides an opportunity to familiarize students and professionals with the needs and issues surrounding dying and death. This course will provide sociological, psychological, religious, historical and anthropological perspectives for interpreting contemporary American customs dealing with dying, death and bereavement. We will examine the professions associated with death and dying, such as hospice, funeral and crematory institutions, and medical care.
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