35 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 103Human Society3
Introduction to the discipline of sociology. Analysis of the reciprocal relationship between social structure and human behavior. Particular attention is paid to the connection between public issues and private problems. (Liberal Studies P1).
Provides a broad introduction to Chinese culture and society by reviewing Chinese history and surveying the post-1978 Chinese society, including China's transition to a market-oriented society and the fundamental societal changes accompanying it (Liberal 436
This course provides a broad historical overview of Black America while weaving in various sociological understandings as to how race and racism have and continue to shape the economic and political landscape of our society.
Changes in human societies through cultural, economic, and political processes. Data is analyzed to consider trajectories of change into the future. The impact of technology is considered.
This class will review theoretical frameworks for studying social inequality and the evidence for a range of social processes that generate and sustain inequalities. It also covers typical methods used for studying inequality and consider inequalities by gender and race/ethnicity.
Study of demographic processes, their causes, and their consequences, reviewing population trends across time and across cultures and discussing how these trends impact society, policy, and culture.
Provides a broad introduction to Chinese culture and society by reviewing Chinese history and surveying the post-1978 Chinese society. Students develop knowledge and critically examine challenges, opportunities, fears and hopes that characterize everyday practices in Chinese life from historical, comparative, theoretical, and sociological perspectives (Liberal Studies P6).
This course presents an overview and analysis of media and popular culture. Emphasis is placed on the relationship to economic, political, and cultural dynamics.
The primary goal of the course is to familiarize students with key theoretical approaches to the study of gender – how gender is constructed at the individual, interactional, and institutional levels in society – and its intersection with other social locations such as race, class, sexuality, age, and ethnicity.
This course will introduce some of the conceptual frameworks and empirical research in the study of mental health and illness with an emphasis on social structural and cultural factors that influence individual experiences of and social responses to mental illness.
This course examines the way groups and social structures shape individuals - their perceptions, beliefs, identities, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors - and how individuals acting together create, maintain, and change social structures: a sociological social psychology.
Study of the institution of family in terms of its nature, functioning, and social context, examining the family in historical perspective and in relation to social change.
This course will familiarize students with sociological approaches to the study of the environment with attention to environmental justice issues in intersection with race, ethnicity, class, and gender. The course will also engage with issues of social change, activism, and climate justice struggles.
This course will introduce students to how globalization processes such as neoliberalism, imperialism, and colonialism shape the social, political, and economic lives of people including in issues related to trade, immigration, environment, and global inequality.
Theory and method; techniques of observation, description, interviewing, note taking, and analyzing data; planning and completing a field study. This course is cross-listed with ANTH 380.
The Theories of Social Justice course will encourage students to critically examine how structures of power such as capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy, and hetero-patriarchy sustain various forms of injustices that shape the experiences of the most oppressed peoples of the world. The course will also examine how the possibility of a different kind of world lies in the past and present-day struggles of the oppressed even as they experience resistance, challenges, and joys of working towards a just world.
Study of aging within social contexts, examining how age (as a social construct) and aging (as a social process) affect human behavior and populations.
Explores the development and spread of our current ideas about race and ethnicity through the experiences of different racial groups. (Liberal Studies P1).
Social issues in sport examined from historical, cross-cultural, and sociological perspectives with attention to impact of race, gender, and social class on participation.
Explores theories of social movements that promote or resist social change including conditions that give rise to and sustain social protest. Reform and radical movements are examined: political, economic, and cultural emphases. Historical and contemporary cases of social movements are considered.
SOC 103 or permission of instructor. Credits: 1-3, R6
SOC 483Internship in Sociology3
Application of theory and knowledge to work experience in a cooperating agency. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course. Three hours credit applicable to Sociology major or minor.
Application of theory and knowledge to work experience in a cooperating agency. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course. Three hours credit applicable to Sociology major or minor.
Application of theory and knowledge to work experience in a cooperating agency. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course. Three hours credit applicable to Sociology major or minor.
This course is designed to empower students in knowing how to use their sociology degree to prepare for life after college. Students will apply what they have learned during their time as a sociology major to activities that emphasize experiential learning, professional development, changemaking, and self-reflection.
