21 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 150Fundamentals of Sociology3
This course provides a broad overview of sociology and how it applies to everyday life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including sociological imagination, culture, deviance, inequality, social change, and social structure. This course is open to anyone and fulfills the Gen Ed Social Sciences requirement.
This course deals with human society as composed of diverse and numerous social groups interacting with one another on the basis of society’s cultural system.
SOC 211 This course is an analytical definition of marriage, its changing patterns, and its many functions. It also takes the phenomenon of marriage in other societies into consideration for comparative purposes.
SOC 211 This course is formulated to help students gain insight into sport as one of the most flourishing social institutions, linked to other institutions such as economy, family, and education.
SOC 211 The course deals with the reality of prejudice and discrimination against women and their specific societal issues and problems, as compared to men.
SOC 211 This course is concerned with the sociology of social problems in terms of their social origins and consequences and the existing respective policies in the American society. Different sociological approaches to these problems are discussed. The problems concerned include those related to physical/ mental health, alcoholism and drug addiction, crimes, sex- related deviant behaviors, HIV/AIDS, socioeconomic discrimination, poverty, and wars.
SOC 211 A study of processes of socioeconomic change in human society at different societal levels. Sources and forces of change are discussed and sociological theories of social change also are outlined. Certain emphasis is placed on social changes in the American society.
SOC 211 Medical Sociology investigates the distribution of health and illness in our society, the nature of the health care system, the roles of mainstream and alternative health care providers, and the roles played by caregivers and patients in the health care system. The major concentration is on health in the United States; however, attention is given to global health care issues in order to provide a perspective on the American experience.
SOC 211 This course studies how society is stratified or how socioeconomic inequality is structured in society. Hence, it deals with social classes, social mobility, and the valued or scarce resources for which different social groups compete and discriminate. The different sociological theories of social stratification also are addressed throughout the course.
SOC 211 In terms of their causes and consequences, racism and ethnocentrism are discussed in this course. This aspect of group control is used to analyze how biology as genetics or cultural differences among fellow human beings and citizens are used to justify prejudice and discrimination. Different sociological theories on this topic are introduced and a comparative ethnic-racial picture is drawn.
SOC 211 The course focuses on African-Americans as a certain racial and ethnic minority and highlights the societal historical prejudice and discrimination to which they have been subjected in practice.
SOC 211 and PSY 201 This is a study of how the individuals’ feelings, thoughts, ideas, opinions, and patterns of action are influenced by the groups they encounter. Different social psychological theories explaining this influence are studied. The relationship between sociology, psychology, and social psychology also is highlighted.
SOC 211 and six (6) more hours of sociology Sociology is a “young” science but it has a long history. Students discover how sociology has evolved as social thoughts and ideas to become a social science. Students also learn about different social thinkers, philosophers, and early sociologists who are credited for the rise of sociology. This course prepares students for advanced study in SOC 450 and SOC 491 .
SOC 360Introduction to Political Sociology (Elective)3
SOC 211 , SOC 344 , and six more semester hours in sociology An introduction to theoretical explanations in regard to why social things are as they are in human society in the sense that how this society is held together. In this context, the different patterns of social behavior and group interaction are the focus. The contributions of major sociologists as founders of or contributors to this discipline are taught.
SOC 472Internship3
Prerequisite: Junior status This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills from and to apply their academic training through temporary work with some relevant community agency or governmental organization.
Junior status This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills from and to apply their academic training through temporary work with some relevant community agency or governmental organization.
SOC 202 This course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge about the concepts of death and dying. It also helps them to gain insight into research conducted on the major areas of these two phenomena.
SOC 211 , SOC 344 , and three more courses in sociology This seminar is designed to be taken in the last (senior) semester. It is an integration and a synthesis of several sociological topics, issues, and concepts that students have already studied. The seminar also helps orient students towards career development in graduate school or in the job market.
