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  • SOC 3690: Internet and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005), SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Traces the history of new media through a sociological approach. Utilizes sociological theories of mass media and new media, (internet, smartphones, social media, etc.) and their impact on identities and institutions. Refers to sociological theories created in the pre-internet era - such as symbolic interactionism - to explain the pervasive presence of new media in society as well as our use of them.
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  • SOC 3700: Social Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher), SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Studies social structure, culture, environment (urban/rural axis), inequality, and poverty in American Society. Examines Spanish Harlem, Detroit, Appalachia, and the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
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  • SOC 375G: Sociology of Aging GI

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the social aspects of aging at the personal, group, and larger social levels of society including the social implications of aging, the theories of aging, as well as formal and informal support of medical care, housing, and well-being of elderly persons. Includes the study of the identify the biological processes of aging and its impact on the roles and relationships elderly person experience in the later stages of life. Emphasizes the individual's experience in the context of national and global demographic trends, cultural and ethnic diversities and economic realities across the classes and across political boundaries.
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  • SOC 3800: Animals and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the roles that non-human animals play in human societies. Utilizes sociological approaches to study human-animal relationships and to critically evaluate the ideologies which justify these relationships. Pays particular attention to human relationships in North America to domestic pets, livestock, and wildlife.
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  • SOC 3850: Rural Life--Global and Local

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Introduces rural life across the globe. Discusses the views of agrarian writers and thinkers. Explores rural values, rural communities, rural race relations, and rural poverty. Evaluates how the rural perspective provides a platform for critique of modern societal transformations in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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  • SOC 4000: Classical Social Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade), SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the contributions of key theorists such as Durkheim, Weber, Marx, DuBois, and Addams to the development of contemporary sociology. Applies key theoretical concepts and frameworks created and used by classical sociologists to current and historical social issues.
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  • SOC 4020: Survey Research Design

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Teaches methods of conducting survey research. Explains how to construct, validate, and administer surveys, how to conduct interviews, how to report data, and how to interpret findings.
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  • SOC 4100: Contemporary Social Theory WE

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 and SOC 4000 and (ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Examines major contemporary sociological theories that provide the basis for sociological research and the interpretation of social processes. Explores the nature of sociological theory and theory-building to understand the difference and connection between theoretical, methodological, and empirical works in sociology. Covers influential theoretical frameworks, such as structural functionalism, Frankfurt School, exchange and rational choice theories, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, and world systems theories.
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  • SOC 4400: Social Change

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Analyzes societies and their component parts. Evaluates various endogenous and exogenous forces which bring about social change. Examines historical and contemporary processes of social change and stratification. Explores current social conditions and applicable methods of social change. Offered once every other year.
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  • SOC 475R: Current Topics in Sociology

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a minimum grade of C+, SOC 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Presents selected topic in Sociology and will vary each semester. Requires a project demonstration competency in the specific topic. May be repeated 3 times with different topics.
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