5 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.
The course surveys issues related to marriage and family in contemporary society. Content includes the nature of relationships and crises such as divorce and family violence. 132 | College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog
An exploration of familial life including marriage and the search for a life partner. Topics include the need for relationships, challenges faced by traditional, non-traditional, nuclear, and non-nuclear families, and methods of coping after experiencing a familial crisis.
How and why do we age? Is old age necessarily a period of decline? What are the benefits of old age? Why is it important to study aging? How is individual aging related to the structure of society? What are the problems of an aging society? These and other questions are the topic of this course. We will examine aging from the perspectives of sociology, psychology, social demography, history, biology, the medical sciences, and economics. In particular, we will start by studying aging from a developmental or life course perspective. Then we will discuss health care for the elderly and issues of death and dying. We will end the course with a social and economic outlook for an aging society.
An exploration of gerontology and the aging process. Topics include the biological process, familial relationships, social implications, and diverse perspectives concerning death, bereavement, and end-of-life care.
A study of scientific topics and social concerns today and in history, this course examines our assumptions about the natural world and our place in it. It will take a close look at the science and history behind some of the most contentious topics we face, including evolution, epidemic disease, genetic engineering, and environmental change. Learners will be asked to use this information in order to evaluate claims made in the popular media about how we, as a society, navigate the competing claims of morality, government, and the common good.
Source: Bethel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
