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3.00 Credits
Academically supervised in a Greater Hartford company, organization, or agency to learn hands-on communication skills, interpersonal relations, public relations, and organizational behavior. Offered in fall semester for Hillyer sophomores with 2.5 GPA. Interns keep an annotated journal and write one major paper. Prerequisites: ENB 110, 111, and SDB 110.
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Selected topics in speech and drama, varying from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
Work experience in a public or private organizational setting under the supervision of the co-op faculty coordinator. It is required that the objectives and evaluation criteria be set by a learning contract. Prerequisites: SOC 110, sophomore standing, GPA of 2.5, and approval of co-op coordinator. These prerequisites and SOC 170 for criminal justice majors.
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3] Surveys main theoretical approaches and problems in the study of social life. Topics include social origins of the self, the basic processes of social interaction, class and stratification, political power, education, organization, and family. Emphasizes continuing interaction between theory and methods in sociology. Required for sociology majors and most advanced sociology courses. Open to juniors and seniors only through permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Sociological perspective on the tensions, conflicts, and issues that come to be defined as contemporary social problems presents an analysis of historical, cultural, political background of social conflicts. Several specific issues will be discussed in detail along with a critical evaluation of the social policy formulated to solve our most significant social problems.
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This course provides a sociological analysis of the current trends in social welfare. The implementation of health, housing, poverty, and aging policies by federal, state, and local agencies will be analyzed. Careers in social work and applied sociology will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to culture and social institutions through comparative study of nonliterate peoples, early civilizations, and modern societies, with illustrations of the applications of the tools of anthropological analysis to various social structures.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the social responses to crime and the major social institutions created to control crime. The course introduces the ideologies of crime and crime control; the determination of rates of crime; the structure, operation, and effectiveness of the major criminal justice agencies; and contemporary issues in crime control. The focus of the course is on the United States, but students will be exposed to issues of crime and crime control in other societies.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some of the key issues in the development of Israeli history, culture, society, and the arts. In seeking to create a radical new society, Israelis have created a unique culture that blends traditional Jewish culture in its Middle Eastern, Western European, and Eastern European forms. We study major themes in Zionist and Israeli history and the development of Israeli culture through a focus on the central questions that have both unified and divided Israeli society.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a detailed examination of the social struggles for women's and gay rights in the United States and in various countries across the globe. The main focus of the course is on the specific social conditions and events that precipitated battles for change in various social arenas. The outcomes of specific struggles and the impact they had on the social position of women and gay and lesbian people are analyzed. Prerequisite: GS 100 or SOC 110, or permission of instructor.
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