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SOC 105: Introduction to Sociology
Undergraduate 3 credits
DEC: F SBC: SBS
A general introduction to the science of sociology, emphasizing sociological theory and methods. Students are taught what is unique about the way in which sociologists analyze human behavior and society. Differences between the sociological perspective and perspectives of other social sciences are emphasized. There is also a heavy emphasis on the types of methods and data that sociologists use to test the validity of their ideas.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64294 01 Jayne Yerrick In Person Tues. & Thurs. 09:30-12:55PM West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 63439 02 Danial Vahabli In Person Tues. & Thurs. 01:30-04:55PM West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 200: Medicine and Society
Undergraduate 3 credits
SBC: SBS
An examination of some traditional concerns of the humanities and social sciences as they occur in basic health care and its delivery. Practicing physicians or other health care professionals present clinical cases to emphasize such topics as allocation of scarce resources, issues of dying and refusing treatment, confidentiality, and cultural factors and disease. Discussion focuses on the social, historical, ethical, and humanistic import of the cases.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64295 30 Dana McIntyre Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Closed ×Session 2 65215 31 Jessica Rojahn Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 201: Research Methods in Sociology
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: SOC 105
SBC: ESI
Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical data to test sociological hypotheses. Emphasis is on multivariate analysis of tabular and statistical data.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 62763 01 Jeremy Levine In Person Mon. & Weds. 09:30-12:55PM West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 63791 02 Marion Harper In Person Mon. & Weds. 01:30-04:55PM West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 248: Social Probl in Global Perspec
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: GLO; SBS+
Examination of contemporary social problems in the United States, identifying how each problem is experienced in other countries, and how each is connected to global level processes or institutions. Such problems as urbanization, drugs and crime, unemployment, and environmental degradation are considered.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 2 64301 30 Breanna Brock Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 304: Sociology of the Family
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
An historical and cross-cultural analysis of the family as a major social institution in society; the demography of contemporary American families; selected policy issues involving the family.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64185 30 Jessica Rojahn Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Closed × -
SOC 309: Social Conflicts and Movements
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
An examination of aggregate phenomena; revolutionary and counterrevolutionary programs and organizations. Historical and cross-cultural examples are emphasized.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64296 30 Ida Nikou Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 310: Racism and Ethnic Relations
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: K SBC: DIV; SBS+
The comparative experience of ethnic and other minority groups within the United States, including formation, migration, and conflict; prejudice, discrimination, and minority self-hatred. Consideration of the developments of U.S. society from the colonial period to the present provide the context for consideration of the changing experiences of ethnic groups.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 65585 30 Breanna Brock Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 64017 30 Michael Lenmark Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Closed × -
SOC 315: Sociology of Technology
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: H SBC: STAS
Social systems and the various "tools" they develop to shape their environment. Concentration on technologies of highly developed, modern societies and on ethical issues involved in attempts to guide the development and effects of these technologies. Consideration is given to the role of technology in all societies, from the simplest to the most developed.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 65216 30 Irissa Cisternino Online Synchronous Tues. & Thurs. 01:30-04:55PM West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 65217 31 Hao Lin Online Synchronous Mon. & Weds. 09:30-12:55PM West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 330: Media and Society
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
The course examines changes in the use of mass communications media, such as newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet, over time, and assesses the implications of these changes for society. Consideration of the commercial use of mass media and the media's role in providing news for democratic societies. Emphasis on the global dimensions of the mass media, including how they shape Americans' understandings of other countries and peoples, and vice versa.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 2 65218 30 Andrew Collins Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 336: Social Change
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
Development and modernization are studied in a historical and comparative perspective that emphasizes the universality of social change in human societies. The approach is macrosociological, focusing on broad patterns of change in economic, social, and political organization in the modern era. Revolutions as dramatic instances of socio-political change receive particular attention.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 2 64302 30 Jose Guevara Fino Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 337: Social Deviance
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
Competing theories of the nature of social deviance; stigmatizing, labeling, and application of informal social controls; technical, legal, and ethical issues related to "non-victim" crimes.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 2 64018 30 Ida Nikou Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 340: Sociology of Human Reproductn
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: H SBC: STAS
A study of the links between biological reproduction and the socioeconomic and cultural processes that affect and are affected by it. The history of the transition from high levels of fertility and mortality to low levels of both; different kinship, gender, and family systems around the world and their links to human reproduction; the value of children in different social contexts; and the social implications of new reproductive technologies. This course is offered as both SOC 340 and WST 340.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 65219 30 Duygu Alpan Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open + ×Note: Meets with WST 340.30.
Session 2 65583 31 Duygu Alpan Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open + ×Note: Offered as WST 340 and SOC 340
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SOC 344: Environmental Sociology
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: GLO; SBS+
Analysis of how populations gain sustenance from their environments through organization, information, and technology. Evolution of technology and its ecological consequences for population growth, urbanization, social stratification, environmental destruction, and the quality of life. Problems in managing the human environment and communities.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 63285 30 Kajol Patel Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 64265 31 Nayla Huq Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 361: Historical Devel of Soc Theory
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisites: SOC 105; U3 or U4 standing
DEC: F SBC: SBS+; WRTD
Main currents in the development of modern sociology, with an emphasis on Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, among other leading theorists.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64419 30 Hannah Judson Online Synchronous Tues. & Thurs. 09:30-12:55PM West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 381: Sociology of Organizations
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
Bureaucracy as a form of organization; the structure of relations between and within organizations.
Session Class # Section Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 63340 30 Michael Lenmark Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 390: Special Topics
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
Past topics have included titles such as Global Trade, Arms, and Human Rights; The Sociology of Aging; and Gender in Africa. Designed for upper-division students, this course provides an in-depth study of a specific topic within social sciences disciplines such as history, economics, political science, and linguistics. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, and knowledge of the major concepts, models, and issues of the social science discipline(s) studied. May be repeated as the topic changes.
Session Class # Section Topic Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 65220 30 Contemporary Korean Society Gyuho Shin Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 64186 31 Law And Society Danielle Lucksted Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × -
SOC 393: Topics in Health, Medicine,Soc
Undergraduate 3 credits
Prerequisite: one D.E.C. F or SBS course or U3/U4 status
DEC: F SBC: SBS+
Selected topics in health, medicine, and in social change. Topics may include the Sociology of Aging, Sociology of Sexuality, Healthcare Delivery, and the Sociology of Disability. Designed for upper-division students, this course provides an in-depth study of a specific topic within social sciences disciplines. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, and knowledge of the major concepts, models, and issues of the discipline. May be repeated as the topic changes.
Session Class # Section Topic Instructor Mode Days Time Campus Status Notes Session 1 64300 30 Sociology Of Disability Fiona Burke Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open ×Session 2 63969 31 Food And Society Gaëlle Aminata Colin Online Asynchronous Flexible (Online) TBA West (Main Campus) Open × - Modify search