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  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses aging as a lifelong process, involving interrelationships of the individual and his or her environment. Includes future demographic trends, family health care, social policy and mass media. Cross listed with FCSC 2110 and NURS 2110.
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    Focuses on women and the aging process with emphasis given to both the problems and promises of aging. Topics to be explored within a multicultural, sociological framework include the definition of self, relationships, community, health and health care, work and service, retirement, economic realities and new perspectives on aging. Cross listed with FCSC/WMST/NURS 2135. Prerequisites: ENGL/SOC/WMST 1080 or SOC 1000 or FCSC 2110/NURS 2110 or SOC 2120.
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    Surveys African societies in their traditional and modern settings. Explores structure, function, and process in African social institutions (family, kinship, gender, economy, politics, education, law, and religion). Analyzes impact of Western contact of these institutions and other internal and external processes that have culminated in the present African condition. Cross listed with AAST 2140.
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    Theoretically and empirically analyzes sexual attitudes and behaviors on the social level. Focuses on American society. Prerequisite: SOC 1000, PSYC 1000 or ANTH 1200.
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    Examines social relations among majority and minority groups by devoting particular attention to race and ethnic relations in the U.S. Encompasses sociological approach to this topic, which emphasizes power structures, economic relationships and cultural traditions historically and today. Devotes attention to social psychological issues, such as prejudice, and social structural issues, such as class inequality. Prerequisite: SOC 1000 or ANTH 1200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Generally introduces the nature of crime, statistics on crime, types of criminal behavior and explanations of crime. Cross listed with CRMJ 2400. Prerequisite: SOC 1000 or equivalent.
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    Introduces students to fundamental issues associated with the application of scientific methods to criminal justice problems. Students examine research designs involving ethnographic, archival, historical, and quantitative methods and how they relate to social science issues. Prerequisite: CRMJ 1001 or SOC 1000. Cross listed with CRMJ 2685.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to fundamental issues associated with the application of scientific methods to criminal justice problems. Students examine research designs involving ethnographic, archival, historical, and quantitative methods and how they relate to social science issues. Prerequisite: CRMJ 1001 or SOC 1000. Cross listed with CRMJ 2685.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to some of the unique sociological interests of our faculty and instructors that fall outside of topics covered in our regular course curriculum. Prerequisites: None.
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    Studies causes, processes, and consequences of structural transformations in historical and comparative perspective. Reviews and assesses forces that account for sociological changes. Explores social change globally as well as in the U.S. Cross listed with INST 3000. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 and junior standing.