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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher. Studies ethnic and racial minority groups and the development of formal and informal relationships shared by these groups and the majority group. Explores the roles and origins of these groups and the concepts of prejudice, ethnic inequalities, current minority group movements, cross-cultural issues, economic, political, and educational aspects of majority-minority relations.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 101G or PSY 1010 or SOC 1010) and ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005 with a C+ grade or higher. Presents selected topics in Sociology. Approaches subjects from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Requires a project demonstrating competency in the specific topic. May be repeated for nine credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): PSY 3110 (statistics) with a C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Teaches how to conduct social science research. Introduces different research methods in social sciences, including experiments, surveys, field research, and unobtrusive research. Covers the following topics: steps in scientific research, the ethics of social research, research design, the logic of sampling, and strengths and limitations of each type of data collection method.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Examines religion from a sociological perspective. Analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Discusses religious organizations, religion and politics, and religion and social class.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. For students who desire a better understanding of United States and world education systems. Examines and investigates educational trends and issues such as private vs. public systems; dropout rates; desegregation; student achievement/failure; education policies; race; class; gender issues; the 'Hidden Curriculum'; and education reform using Sociological theory and empirical research.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Explores the distribution of political power at the national and international levels from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Pays particular attention to the power wielded by international media conglomerates and the influence of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 and University Advanced Standing. Examines individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in social contexts. Analyzes human behaviors from a sociological perspective. Includes the history of sociological social psychology, perspectives and research methods in sociological social psychology, the social psychology of stratification, self and identity, socialization over the life course, social psychology of deviance, mental health and illness, social attitudes, sociology of emotions and relationships, and collective behavior.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Examines work and occupations in historical and contemporary contexts. Examines current employment patterns and trends, the nature of labor markets and jobs, the gendered arrangements of paid and unpaid work, the organization and management of work. Explores transformations in occupational settings resulting from changes in economy and labor market. Focuses on the macro level (the effects of advancements in technology, bureaucratization and unionization on the division of labor), the micro-level (job satisfaction and alienation), and on the interface between macro and micro levels (job prestige, rewards, effects of ethnicity, age, and other characteristics).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 and ENGL 2010 with a C+ grade or higher and University Advanced Standing. Explores in detail several different approaches to understanding the social causes of and solutions to environmental degradation. Discusses the development of a wide variety of theory-based critiques of various social institutions (e.g., economic, political, religious) and how these institutions' values can create and perpetuate unsustainable practices.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the strengths and weaknesses of several different definitions of deviance. Explains deviant behavior from a variety of theoretical perspectives and summarizes the existing data on several different forms of deviance, i.e., individual violations of social mores, street level crime, corporate crime, and crimes committed by nation states.