82 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.
Scientific study of social behavior including factors involved in functioning and development of human society such as culture, identity, social organization, institutions, stratification, social process, and social change.
Analysis of contemporary social problems from a sociological perspective.
This course examines causes of and responses to critical social problems in different world regions with a focus on the dimensions and impacts of globalization.
Provides an overview of the basic principles, philosophy, organization, policies, ethics, and functions of the U.S. criminal justice system as well as the basic patterns and distribution of crime and victimization in the United States.
Social processes in the creation and maintenance of deviant populations: classification, objectification of social meanings, functions of subcultures and social outcomes of the deviance-ascription process. Includes core sociological concepts, methods, and theories.
Study of social inequalities, with a particular focus on race, class, and gender.
This course evaluates key sociological theorists, concepts, principles, and philosophies about the founding principles of America and this country’s journey to become a beacon of democracy, humanity, and a homeland for equitable citizenship.
Introduction to the history, reading, and practice of social theory, with a focus on pre-war texts.
Topics include the function of theory in research, concept formation, study design, data collection, and analysis strategies.
Application of statistical concepts and procedures to sociological inquiry. Topics include elementary descriptive and inferential procedures and use of computers in data analysis.
Examines key sociocultural issues through classic literary and cinematic works, emphasizing notions of modernity, the contemporary world, and the relationship they entertain; provides foundational reading and critical thinking skills.
Adjudication of criminal defendants from arrest through appellate process. Special attention given to current issues in administration of justice, e.g., the death penalty, plea bargaining, alternatives to incarceration.
This course takes an institutional approach to analyzing the social control of deviant behaviors and stigmatized social groups, with in-depth discussions of medicine, public health, and the criminal justice system.
Sociological consideration of crime causation, patterns of crime, and responses to crime and other socially defined forms of deviance.
Recent changes and current structure of communities, with special attention to urbanization, bureaucratization, industrialization, social class systems, land use, inter-organizational relationships, urban life styles, and community power.
Interaction between peoples of differing racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, with comparison of American relationships to those in other parts of the world.
Systematic study of such forms of collective social behavior as social movements and revolutions with a strong international and comparative focus.
Inquiry into status of genders in society with emphasis on structural and institutional relationships as well as socialization and the continuities and discontinuities in gendered displays across the life cycle.
Analysis of emergence of urban society including formation and growth of urban centers and problems associated with ecological, social, and cultural differentiation within urban settlements.
Examines law as a social process that differs from case to case according to the social characteristics of the parties involved. Criminal and civil law are discussed.
Competing perspectives on power, theories of state, political parties, ideologies and institutions. Examination of conflicting political sociological theories of what the state is, how it emerged, and how it develops in relation to class structure, economy, civil society and social movements.
Sociological analysis of the family with particular attention to change, patterns of behavior, and diversity in families.
Study of sexual activity and sexuality from a sociological perspective, including sociological theories and studies of sex, social patterns of sexuality, sex and social institutions, and contemporary sexual practices in society.
An introduction to cultural sociology and exploration of cultural products and practices, the relationship between culture and society, and issues pertaining to meaning, interpretation, and representation.
Conceptual frameworks of social psychology for selected topics: theories of social psychology, socialization, social perception, acquisition of self, gender, race and ethnicity, social interaction, and attitude and behavior change.
Examination of social stratification systems and theories, economic prestige, power inequalities, social mobility, and class consciousness.
Topics in global sociology, with a special focus on countries and regions beyond the U.S. Subjects covered may include politics and states, social policy, historical development of the world-system, international and transnational institutions and processes, development and globalization, and political economy. Application to contemporary social issues is stressed.
Sociological study of basic population processes of fertility, migration, and mortality, including examination of problems associated with changing population size, composition, and distribution.
Course assesses the nature and extent of juvenile participation in unconventional behavior and identification with norms and values promoting delinquency.
This course explores how non-violent interventions and peacebuilding practices can reduce violence and promote justice.
Analysis of socio-cultural aspects of health and illness. Consideration given to definitions of health, social distribution of illness, formal and informal organization of health professions and institutions, national health care systems.
Introduction to sociological theories and research about how social forces influence schools, inequality and conflict in schools, how schools confer status on people, and how schools are organized and changed.
An introduction to perspectives advanced by black scholars concerning black power and pride, stratification, social order, culture, intraracial socialization, interaction, mate selection, and consequences of skin-tone variance.
Introduction to major sociological theories, perspectives and research useful for understanding environmental issues and environmentalism. Primary focus on the U.S., with some attention to Europe and developing countries.
Examination of processes of racialization and ethnic identification, especially in societies outside of the U.S. Special attention to the causes of international migration and its consequences for ethno-racial classification and identification.
Study of harms and crimes against the natural environment and the related impacts on human and non-human animals. Students will assess and analyze the causes and consequences of environmental crime.
The anatomy of disasters examined from both anthropological and sociological perspectives. Case studies are presented through several conceptual lenses for clarifying individual, social, cultural, and political responses to catastrophic events.
Examines select criminal justice policies and the empirical, theoretical, and political controversies surrounding them. The main subjects explored through an intersectional lens are capital punishment, bail, mass incarceration, rehabilitation, police-community relations, plea bargaining, prison privatization, and constitutional rights.
Focus on the sociology of police, policing institutions, and problems in policing in the United States. Topics include the social history and functions of the police, police decision-making, procedural law, intersectionality and policing, police corruption, the militarization of the police, police crime, and alternatives to policing.
An introduction to perspectives in criminology that focus on African American participation in crime and the significance of race for legal sanctioning.
This course focuses on drug (mis)use as a social phenomenon. We discuss the history of drug (mis)use, causes of drug use, and the development and enforcement of drug laws.
Examines key questions in scholarly literature on gender, crime, and deviance: how gender socialization, gender roles, and institutions affect males' and females' offending, deviant behavior, and victimization.
Examines the forms, causes, incidence, and prevention of violence within the family and other intimate relationships.
Advanced study of population processes and urban concepts from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Emphasis on accessing and interpreting data from the U.S. census and other sources.
Study of the types, causes, consequences, and control of white-collar crime.
Examines the nature and extent of gang membership in America: activities of cliques, near groups, cultural gangs, and established gangs.
Comparative study of ethnic, class, and cultural conflict in developing and developed societies. Attention is given to the impact of ethnicity and class conflict upon societal development and change in the international setting.
Study of social dynamics underlying events of collective violence and collective nonviolence globally and historically. Explores why contentious politics take a violent turn sometimes and a nonviolent turn at other times.
Using biographical history, the course will highlight connections between individual identity, ideologies and socio-political context, especially as they relate to the labels of offenders, victims and survivors.
Study of the social factors that impact contemporary culture and the individual's sense of self and identity.
What impacts are technologies having on society? What makes science a unique social institution? Can scientific knowledge be socially constructed and still be valid? This class introduces students to major perspectives in the sociological study of science and of technology that address these and other questions.
Social impact, exchange, equity, and attribution theories intensively examined as basic in understanding specific substantive problems of reciprocal influences of groups and individuals in socio-cultural context.
Introduction to the history, reading, and practice of social theory, with a focus on post-war texts.
Opportunity for Honors students to have directed instruction on problems of special interest.
Opportunity for students to have directed instruction on problems of special interest.
Opportunity for students to have directed instruction on problems of special interest.
Undergraduate students will complete at least 120 internship hours (graduate students, at least 300 hours) with a local public sector agency, and through the application of sociological concepts, will examine interpersonal, organizational, and public policy issues.
This course introduces salient topics about social conflict and social change. It discusses origins, characteristics, and transformation of social conflict by focusing on both group level processes and structural factors.
Nature and origins of modern science; relations of science and technology; science in democratic and authoritarian societies; images of scientists; origins and recruitment of scientists; career patterns; the organizational setting.
Critical examination of various ways of studying family, with consideration given to methodology, statistical treatment of data, and substantive findings.
Social impact, exchange, equity, and attribution theories intensively examined as basic in understanding specific substantive problems of reciprocal influences of groups and individuals in socio-cultural context.
Provides an overview of sociological theory, epistemological issues, and research design. Examines interpersonal, organizational, and public policy issues through the application of sociological concepts. Leads to the production of a drafted written thesis proposal or plan for internship with an organization or agency that reflects the students' interest and goals.
Students will complete at least 300 internship hours with a local public sector agency, and through the application of sociological concepts, will examine interpersonal, organizational, and public policy issues.
Intensive work at an advanced level on a selected topic in the sociology of crime and social deviance.
Advanced seminar in the history, reading, and practice of social theory.
The function of theory in research, concept formation, study design, data collection and analysis.
Provides students with the tools necessary to use ethnographic methods, including practical training, epistemological and ethical issues, and the history of ethnography in sociology.
Application of advanced statistical concepts and procedures in multivariate analyses of discrete and continuous data.
Systematic study of forms of collective social behavior, contentious politics, social movements and revolutions with a global and comparative-historical focus.
Basic systems of social stratification. Theoretical and methodological trends.
Graduate seminar in cultural sociology; an exploration of cultural products and practices, the relationship between culture and society, theories of culture, and issues pertaining to meaning, interpretation, and representation.
Sociological perspectives on globalization and its effects. Trends in theory and research.
Goals, methods, and evaluation in teaching and learning sociology at the college level. Students prepare course objectives and outlines, select instructional materials, and present demonstration lectures and discussions.
Critical examination of central sociological formulations of criminal behavior and victimization, and societal responses to each; integration of theories of criminal behavior with appropriate research strategies for theory advancement.
Theoretical and empirical analysis of institutions of social control through an examination of societal responses to groups and behaviors labeled as deviant.
Directed practical experience in a professional setting in the student's area of interest. Includes written paper(s) applying sociological theories and methodologies to analysis of the setting.
Individual assessment of knowledge through a comprehensive review of relevant scholarship based on student's topic(s) of interest.
Independent study or research.
Independent research.
Individual guidance in the development of a specific research problem.
Thesis Extension.
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