9 courses with the subject SOC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SOC 1100Introduction to Sociology4
Emphasizes methods, basic concepts, terminology, and perspectives used by sociologists in analysis of social relationships. Sociological analysis will focus on American government, family, education, religion, and the economy. Major Content Areas Variety of topics: (government, family, education, religion, economy): 50% Social Movements and collective behavior: 20% Theory and method: 30% Learning Outcomes Identify and explain key concepts in Sociology. Apply key concepts in Sociology to real world examples. Identify and explain major theoretical perspectives in Sociology. Analyze social phenomena using theoretical perspectives. Apply a Sociological Imagination to social issues. Identify and explain the causes and consequences of social inequalities. Compare and contrast societies based on social structure, institutions, and culture. Identify and describe the research methos used in Sociology. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 09 - Ethical/Civic Resp
Explores the significant social problems in contemporary society. The course examines the process of how these social problems arise in society, including controversies that accompany them, and considers possible solutions. Major Content Areas Crime and social control. Power and privilege. Poverty and economic inequality. Substance abuse and addiction. Health care and unequal access to medical treatment. Work and unemployment. Problems related to education. Environmental problems and pollution. Family violence and neglect. Other problems related to globalization and living in a global society. Learning Outcomes Identify what constitutes a social problem. Examine social problems with the tools and concepts of sociology. Explain how behavioral and institutional problems have social roots. Recognize who benefits from the continuation of social problems. Recognize that power and inequality are both outcomes and causes of social problems. Interpret how historical and socially constructed power relationships around race, class, and gender impact social structures and interactions. Investigate solutions to social problems highlighting the need to dismantle and reorganize oppressive social systems. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 7B - Race/Power/Justice
Examines sociological theories explaining deviance, its pertinence to the construction of social order as well as identity, and the application of these theories to the problems of crime, drug use, and mental illness. This course also examines the relationship between creativity and deviance. Major Content Areas Theory and Method. Issues of deviance: (crime, drug use, mental illness, creativity). Changes in perceptions of social deviance. Learning Outcomes Understand how social norms play a role in defining deviance and deviant behaviors.Analyze selected examples of social deviance. Articulate the causes, consequences, and change agents for each selected example of social deviance. Describe a variety of sociological theories and explanations for patterns of social deviance. Apply a sociological lens to understanding the self and others in relationship to social statuses involving social deviance. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 09 - Ethical/Civic Resp
Describes and analyzes selected inequality relationships in the United States. Topic areas will include economic inequality-poverty; ethnic inequality-racism; and gender inequality-sexism. Major Content Areas Gender inequality: 15% Class inequality: 15% Race inequality: 15% Theory and method: 30% Social change: 10% Other Inequality Issues: 15% Learning Outcomes Describe how social inequalities and stratification impacts individuals. Describe how race, class and gender intersect to influence individuals and social institutions. Compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives related to the analysis of social inequalities. Articulate how processes of social stratification create and reproduce social hierarchies and perpetuate inequality in human society. Describe how cultural, social, political and economic changes affect social inequality. Describe how social change and social movements impact social inequality. Identify significant ways that students can become effective social change agents. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 7B - Race/Power/Justice
Surveys human relationships from both the sociological and practical perspectives. Areas of study will include: love, dating, sexuality, singleness, marriage, conflict, parenting, relationship violence, divorce, and other relevant topics. Major Content Areas Sociological theory and methods applied to the study of the family. Historical changes in family structures over time. Relevant topics of consideration (love, dating, sexuality, singlehood, marriage, conflict, parenting, relationship violence, divorce, and other relevant subjects). Demographic trends in diverse family structures. Learning Outcomes Identify the processes by which family structures affect individuals through social organizations or institutions, and vice versa. Describe how family structures and relationships are socially constructed, maintained, and transformed at multiple levels through social institutions and social structure. Express the benefits of diverse family relationships and structures to society. Explain the relationship between the individual and the family. Recognize how family structure impacts human action and social life. Apply sociological theory and concepts to understand family structures and relationships. Explain how hierarchy, power, and authority impact families. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 7A - Human Diversity
Explores gender from a sociological perspective that seeks to promote knowledge of how we build the constructs of men, women, and people of other gender identities, and what the consequences of these constructions. Sociological theories, research, and current issues related to gender in society are presented. Topics may include gender as it relates to media, family, work, politics, power and inequality, education, religion, socioeconomic forces, race/ethnicity, sexuality, social movements, and social change. Major Content Areas Contemporary gender issues: 15% Media representations of gender: 15% Movements for social change: 15% Sociological theories and research: 15% Gender in the future. Visions for the future: 15% Gendered Relationships and Socialization: 25% Learning Outcomes Describe how gender inequality and stratification impacts individuals. Describe how gender intersects with other identities and sources of inequality, with special attention to the intersection between gender, race, class and sexuality. Compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives related to the analysis of gender. Articulate how processes of gender stratification create social hierarchies, including within the social reproduction that occurs in social institutions. Verbalize an understanding of the role that gender plays in society and its relation to issues of inequality. Describe how social change and social movements impact gender inequality. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 7A - Human Diversity
Explores the cultural, historical and sociological factors that have led to the haunting problem of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries and promotes knowledge of how to prevent future genocides based on scholarly research, media analyses, case studies, and first-hand testimonials. This course seeks to address what can be done to make the frequent quote, “Never Again” a greater reality. Major Content Areas Aftermath, consequences and prevention of genocide: 20% Warning signs of potential genocide: 20% Global responses to Genocide - Individual and collective: 20% Historical, political, social, economic, and cultural factors of genocides: 20% Overview of 20th and 21st Century Genocides: 20% Learning Outcomes 1.Describe how social inequality and stratification have historically influenced genocide and the individuals that have experienced it.2.Describe how social inequality and stratification viewed from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and socio-historical perspective promotes genocide analysis.3.Compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives related to the analysis of genocide.4.Articulate how processes of social stratification create social hierarchies leading to genocide.5.Critically evaluate the role that economic, legal, political, and social institutions have historic Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 09 - Ethical/Civic Resp 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci
Explores the ways in which societies have created ecological problems; the human dimensions of climate change; and how institutional arrangements are evolving to deal with environmental challenges. In addressing these topics the course will make linkages between local, national and global processes.
Provides an analysis of the social complexities of local and global food systems. The social and cultural nature of food and water as providers of life are examined from the family dinner table to global systems of agricultural production and distribution. Engaging in discussions of the environment, local and global production, consumption, and the social problems of hunger and obesity, this course examines individual and social relationships to food and considers social, structural, and cultural solutions to the pressing social problems interwoven in social systems of production and consumption. Special attention is paid to the impacts of environmental considerations and climate change on our food systems. Major Content Areas Global and international policies and politics that relate to food, water, and sustainability. Big agriculture and food production. Local, rural, and urban food production and homesteads. Grocery stores and food access. Patterns of consumption and identity. Environmental and climate change impacts and sustainability. Hunger and obesity. Intersecting impacts of food production with social institutions, identities, and inequalities of class, race, gender, and nationality. Learning Outcomes Examine how social institutions shape peoples relationships’ with and access to food and water. Identify the processes and places of food production, including big agriculture, local producers, grocers, urban homesteads, and local and global food assistance programs. Describe the environmental impacts of various methods of food production and the impact of climate change on food production. Examine social movements around food justice. Name solutions for social and environmental problems associated with local and global food chains, production, and consumption. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 08 - Global Perspective 10 - People/Environment
