29 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.
Introduction to sociology and United States society: social class, race, ethnicity, sex, age, family, education, religion, sub-cultures, polity, economy, deviance, urban life, collective behavior, population, bureaucracy, social groups, and social change.
This course investigates the phenomenon of sport, how diverse forms of sport intersect with and shape understandings of social issues like gender, race, politics, and the human body.
This course is designed to give students both the knowledge and skills of writing for analytical social science research. It will cover the structure, mechanics, and rules of the various stages of social science research, including interpreting data and effectively communicating results. Students will learn these fundamentals by doing a variety of writing and reading assignments.
Application of statistical methods in behavioral and social science research. Descriptive statistics, tests of significance, correlation, simple analysis of variance, chi-square, and some nonparametric methods. Same as PSY 211
This course explores American society with a focus on the social problems that are facing each one of us from poverty and racial inequality to violence, drugs, war and terrorism.
The family as a social institution, its place in different cultures and social strata, family functions, courtship, mate selections; the family in transition.
Sociological analysis of the interrelationships among religious, national, and racial minority groups and their dominant majorities in America; international comparisons.
Crime as a form of deviant behavior, its relation to social values and social structure, types of criminal behavior, theories of treatment and control, correctional methods, and the administration of justice.
Topics in various aspects of Sociology. May vary from year to year.
This course presents the student with foundational concepts, knowledge, and processes in the general discipline of data science, programming, statistical and probabilistic thinking. Same as DSC 305 .
Social organization and functioning of the US Health Care System, a dynamic and pluralistic system involving public and private participants.
Application of scientific methods to study human behavior; surveys diverse research methods used in sociology, anthropology, and other behavioral sciences; students originate, design, and conduct research projects. Same as ANT 312 .
This course examines the realities, myths, subcultures, and policies that arise from and influence drug use in American Society.
This course will explore 1) what it means to be a city; 2) how cities are structured; 3) what it is like to live in an urban setting; and 4) the problems faced by urban places.
Examines the social construction on inequality, as well as the theoretical basis for the existence and continuation of social inequality in American society. Investigates the distribution of power in terms of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Explores various aspects of deviance, including the causes of deviant behavior, reactions to deviants, and the impact of social reaction, as well as theories of deviance and selected areas of deviant behavior.
Clarify the concept of family violence, review the applicable historical and theoretical background, discuss different forms that family violence takes, and to examine the social consequences.
The development of Sociology and Anthropology; critical ideas about society and culture from early thinkers through the present. Same as ANT 405
The application and development of sociological and anthropological theory and research methods through a series of advanced readings and discussions and the development of an independent research project. Same as ANT 423
Students serve on the staffs of established agencies under co-supervision of designated agency staff person and appropriate faculty person. Periodic conferences, relevant reading assignments, and papers analyzing internship experience required. Same as ANT 470
Individually supervised research and study. Provides opportunity for students to engage in original research or to pursue scholarly investigations beyond the boundaries of established courses. Arranged by agreement between the student and the instructor, subject to approval of coordinator and division dean. May be repeated once for credit, though with a different topic. Prerequisite(s); if any: Junior standing.
This course is an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing American communities. Topics of discussion include urban growth, structure, segregation, and basic economic and social processes found in cities. Analysis of census data and basic Geographic Information System (GIS) and data visualization practices and their application in policy environments are also explored.
The study of complex organizations in modern society. Examines the basic character of bureaucracy, its functional significance for society, its pathological aspects, its internal structure, and the effects of informal relations within formal systems.
Demography is the study of human population size, growth, density and change. The major focus of the course is on fertility, mortality, and migration patterns at the national level. A comparative perspective allows analysis of various demographic variables.
With the increase in the amounts of social data from a variety of new sources, such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, and digitized archives, social scientists have developed and applied novel analytical techniques to conduct research in order to better understand the rapidly changing social world as well as to update theoretical paradigms. This course introduces the integration of computational methods with the social sciences. Students will learn how new data sources challenge the way in which we see society and how computational techniques, such as network analysis, sequence analysis, event history analysis, and natural language processing, facilitate social scientists’ data gathering, data analysis, and theory building. Meets with SOC 366 .
Source: Utica University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
