Course Schedule
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S100 Introduction to Sociology
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No Prerequisites
Credits: 3
Introduction to the concepts and methods of sociology with an emphasis on the understanding of contemporary American society. Offered every semester.
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S101 Social Problems and Policies
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Provides a sociological perspective to an in-depth study of a major social problem; explores the policy implications of the general sociological perspective and of sociological knowledge of a particular problem. Problems vary by section; examples include: population, drug use, science and technology, poverty. Offered periodically.
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S210 Sociology of American Ethnic Diversity
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No Prerequisites
Credits: 3
Study of demographic shifts, immigration and ethnicity that shaped our past and will pattern our future; understanding of different groups and cultures to lead to recognizing, respecting, and valuing each personŐs differences. Offered periodically.
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S215 Social Change
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Introduction to theoretical and empirical studies of social change. Explores issues such as modernization; rationalization; demographic, economic, and religious cause of change; reform and revolution. Offered fall semesters.
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S217 Social Inequity
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Why are income, wealth, and status distributed unequally? Is social inequality good for society? Explore the economic basis of social class, education, and culture; social mobility; social inequality in comparative and historical perspective. Offered spring semesters.
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S230 Society and the Individual
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
An introduction to the concepts, perspectives, and theories of social psychology from the level of the individual to collective behavior. Offered spring semesters.
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S308 Introduction to Comparative Sociology
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Introduction to methods of cross-cultural analysis; study of key theories derived from comparative analysis, with emphasis on determinants and consequences of industrialization. Offered fall semesters.
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S313 Religion and Society
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
The nature, consequences, and theoretical origins of religion, as evident in social construction and functional perspectives; the social origins and problems of religious organizations; and the relationships between religion and morality, science, magic, social class, minority status, economic development, and politics. Offered periodically.
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S315 Work and Occupations
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Treats work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers. Offered periodically.
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S316 The Family
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Structure and process of the conjugal family in modern and emerging societies. Focus on relationships of the family to other subsystems of the larger society, and on interaction within the family in connection with these interrelationships. Stress on development of systematic theory. Offered fall and summer semesters.
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S320 Deviant Behavior and Social Control
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Analysis of deviance in relation to formal and informal social processes. Emphasis on deviance and respectability as functions of social reactions, characteristics of rules, and power and conflict. Offered periodically.
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S325 Criminology
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Factors in genesis of crime and organization of criminal behavior from points of view of the person and the group. Offered periodically.
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S335 Race and Ethnic Relations
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3 credits of sociology or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Relations between racial and ethnic minority and majority groups; psychological, cultural, and structural theories of prejudice and discrimination; comparative analysis of diverse systems of intergroup relations. Offered periodically.
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S340 Social Theory
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Sociological theory, with focus on content, form, and historical development. Relationships between theories, data, and sociological explanation. Offered spring semesters.
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S360 Topics in Social Policy
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Specific topics announced each semester; examples include environmental affairs, urban problems, poverty, and population problems. May be repeated three times for credit with different topics. Offered periodically.
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S410 Topics in Social Organizations
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Prerequisites: S210, S340, or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Specific topics announced each semester, e.g., social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, politics, demography, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems. May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic. Offered periodically.
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S413 Gender and Society
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Prerequisites: S100 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Explores several theories of sex inequality in order to understand the bases of female-male inequality in American society; examines the extent of sex inequality in several institutional sectors; and considers personal and institutional barriers women face, including those resulting from socialization, discrimination, and other structural arrangements. Offered spring semesters.
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S427 Social Conflict
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Prerequisites: S320 or instructor consent
Credits: 3
Explores several theories of sex inequality in order to understand the bases of female-male inequality in American society; examines the extent of sex inequality in several institutional sectors; and considers personal and institutional barriers women face, including those resulting from socialization, discrimination, and other structural arrangements. Offered spring semesters.
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S494 Field Experience in Sociology
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Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and prior arrangement
Credits: 1-6
Faculty-directed study of aspects of sociology based on field experience, in conjunction with directed readings and writing. Specifically, each intern is required to: 1) keep a daily or weekly journal, which is given at regular intervals to the faculty sponsor, 2) give an oral report once the fieldwork is completed, 3) depending on academic credit, write a journal or an analytic
paper, or both. Limited to a total of nine credit hours of both S494 and S495.
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S495 Individual Readings in Sociology
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Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and prior arrangement
Credits: 1-6
Limited to a total of nine credit hours of both S494 and S495.
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