43 courses with the subject SOCI, 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 as a scientific discipline. Subject matter includes sociological concepts, sociological processes, and social institutions, including family and education. Course satisfies University social science requirement. Required of all Social Work and Sociology majors.
Introduction to sociology as a scientific discipline. Subject matter includes sociological concepts, sociological processes, and social institutions, including family and education. The course satisfies University social science requirements.
(Formerly SOC 230). A course which teaches students to assess critically social issues and problems which negatively affect institutions, groups, and individuals. The thrust is to discuss and analyze these issues and problems using the major theories in sociology. (Formally SOC 330)
(Formerly SOC 240). A critical approach to problems of courtship, marriage, and the family, with emphasis on mate selection, marital roles and adjustment, economic problems, women and the family, and parent-child relationships. (Formally SOC 340)
(Formerly SOC 300). Introduction to elementary statistics, with emphasis on analysis and interpretation of social survey data. Required of all Sociology majors. Required of all Social Work and Sociology majors.
(Formerly SOC 310). An examination of the difference between sex as a biophysical attribute of human beings and gender as a set of normatively-assigned attributes; sources and interpretations of the differences between sex and gender; and the relationships among sex, gender, and the way human beings participate in social roles. A writing-intensive course.
(Formerly SOC 320). The nature of culture and society. Focus is on concepts and theories relating to social structure, social organization, ecology, changes, and the role of the individual.
The sociological study of the phenomenon of law as a normative order examined by different schools of thought, whether distinguished with specialized personnel for the use of coercive power from customs and conventions or an authority influenced by social, religious, and cultural obligations in the light of theoretical perspectives, conceptualization of law functions, organizations, and processes of law making and the legal profession.
(Formerly SOC 335). Examination of the social and psychological implications of illness from inception to termination. Materials are drawn from the relevant literature of the behavioral sciences that relate to health.
(Formerly SOC 350). Analysis of the social act. Topics include socialization, symboling systems, social status and social role, personality, and small-group analysis and research.
(Formerly SOC 355). Development, organization, and function of social movements, especially ideology, leadership, and organization of political, religious, and other types of social movements.
(Formerly SOC 360). Development and change in the family as a social institution, examined through the use of cross-cultural materials. Topics include the development of family expectations and roles, cultural conditioning and learning, emotional interaction, mate selection, and family unity. Attention is paid to changes currently affecting the American family. Required of all Sociology majors.
(Formerly SOC 370). Examination of the problems, relationships, and adjustments of racial, cultural, and ethnic minorities. Emphasis is on the nature of these phenomena as they occur in the American social setting.
(Formerly SOC 375). Examination of social mobility, environmental adjustments, and problems of male and female athletes. Attention is paid to such factors as race, cultural background of ethnic groups, and other factors involved in apparent group superiority in some sports.
(Formerly SOC 380). The human relations of modern business and industrial organization, the interdependence of technological and social factors, and implications for the individual as employee and citizen.
(Formerly SOC 385). Sociological analysis of the American political system. Attention is given to the concept of power, elitist-pluralist controversy, end-of-ideology debate, and related topics.
(Formerly SOC 395). In-depth analysis of the historical development and perpetuation of racism in the society and examination of the influences of racism on the social institutions within the black community.
An examination of critical studies on the American and foreign constitutional, judicial, and executive legal systems with emphasis on the similarities and differences in the structures, processes, functions, and analytical evaluations.
(Formerly SOC 400). An examination of the problems of crime and criminals, the making of the criminal, the theories of crime and punishment, machinery employed in dealing with the criminal, penal and correctional institutions, and programs of correction. Case studies and visits to institutions serve as aids in enriching understanding.
(Formerly SOC 410). Examination of theories of juvenile delinquency, the problems, causes, punishment, and correction of the delinquent. The course considers the machinery employed in dealing with the delinquent. Visits to institutions are made available.
(Formerly SOC 415). Methodologies for studying the future and their application to trends in population, organization, environment, technology, and the media. Alternative visions of the future are developed and evaluated.
(Formerly SOC 420). Growth and change in the composition and distribution of population in the world and in the United States. The course studies basic demographic concepts, theories of population growth and decline, and population policies.
(Formerly SOC 430). A course designed to give the student an understanding of the child as a growing organism, and how behavior is acquired; an introduction of symbolic interactionism and its application to socialization and identity; and a distinct sociological approach to behavior in relation to the family, play groups, school situations, and the community. Designed to acquaint prospective teachers and majors in Sociology with the influences of social institutions upon the child’s total development.
(Formerly SOC 440). A cross-cultural examination of rural life in the past and the present, focusing on change and its processes.
(Formerly SOC 445). Theories of nature, function, and structure of religion. Religion in America, including fundamentalism, the Black Church, and cults. How religion changes and is changed by secular society. In sum, the interrelationship of society, culture, and religion.
(Formerly SOC 460). Growth of urbanism throughout the world, including internal structure of the city, metropolitan areas, urban fringe and suburban areas, and analysis of social institutions in urban and metropolitan areas.
This course covers violence within familial and intimate relationships and the consequences of these forms of violence. This course will examine the ways that interpersonal violence is used to commit physical, emotional, sexual, social, and financial abuse within a close social relationship. Patterns of behavior, cultural norms, as well as the impact of race, gender, class, sexuality, age, and ability status will be addressed.
(Formerly SOC 465). Structure and function of formal organizations and the interrelationships of organizational variables, such as power, authority, influence, efficiency, hierarchy, and stability.
(Formerly SOC 470). A study of social, sexual, and racial inequalities and their causes and consequences. Topics include class and ethnic ranking, discrimination, power, status, and social mobility in American society.
(Formerly SOC 475). A survey of the major concerns of medical sociology and social psychiatry. Emphasis is placed on such topics as distribution of disease in society, the organization of the health professions, social change and health care, death and dying, stress and disease, and social factors affecting health services and their utilization.
(Formerly SOC 490). An introductory survey of the development of the field of sociology during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Major emphasis is placed on the intellectual traditions which gave rise to sociology as a separate discipline. Theorists include Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and others. Required of all Sociology majors.
(Formerly SOC 491). A survey and analysis of the development of sociological theory in the twentieth century, with emphases on theory construction and theory in American sociology. Required of all Sociology majors.
(Formerly SOC 492). Introductory theory course for students of all disciplines. Course deals with black thought and social theory from ancient to contemporary times. Provides knowledge of the contributions of black thinkers and theoreticians to sociological thought.
(Formerly SOC 493). A continuation on SOCI 4920 , an introductory theory course for students of all disciplines. Course deals with black thought and social theory from ancient to contemporary times. Provides knowledge of the contributions of black thinkers and theoreticians to sociological thought.
(Formerly SOC 495, 495A, 495B, 495C, 495D). Courses designed to allow students to work independently or in groups on topics of special interest not covered in depth in course offerings. Work may be done in a tutorial relationship with an individual faculty member or in a seminar.
(Formerly SOC 495, 495A, 495B, 495C, 495D). Courses designed to allow students to work independently or in groups on topics of special interest not covered in depth in course offerings. Work may be done in a tutorial relationship with an individual faculty member or in a seminar.
(Formerly SOC 495, 495A, 495B, 495C, 495D). Courses designed to allow students to work independently or in groups on topics of special interest not covered in depth in course offerings. Work may be done in a tutorial relationship with an individual faculty member or in a seminar.
(Formerly SOC 495, 495A, 495B, 495C, 495D). Courses designed to allow students to work independently or in groups on topics of special interest not covered in depth in course offerings. Work may be done in a tutorial relationship with an individual faculty member or in a seminar.
One time, topical, or experimental course. Faculty may offer a course on an issue that becomes very topical because of current events, on a matter of their current research, or to develop a new course.
Source: Tennessee State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
