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2018-2019 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Sociology
  

  • SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology (3 cr.)

    Concepts and methods used in sociological investigations of interpersonal relations. Relationship of the group to the individual; stratification of society; variability of culture.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Social Sciences
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 199 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • SOC 203 - Introduction to Social Justice (3 cr.)

    This course will be a survey of social justice issues in the US and in the world. The focus will be on systems of power and privilege, including race, gender, and class, and the global economy including its effects on individuals, institutions, and societies. We will finish with reviews of resistance and/or social change movements aiming to achieve social justice locally and/or globally.
    Liberal Arts
    General Education Category: Social Sciences
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 265 - Self in Society (3 cr.)

    Introduction to theories and research focusing on the individual in the context of society and interpersonal relations. Topics: socialization and formation of self and self attitudes, interpersonal behavior, attitudes and emotion, interpersonal perception, group dynamics.
    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • SOC 299 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 300 - Research Methods I (3 cr.)

    Overview of sociological explanations, project design and methods of research. Issues of measurement. Introduction to descriptive statistics.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 ; MAT160 or MAT 161 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • SOC 301 - Research Methods II: Quantitative (3 cr.)

    Overview of quantitative research design and strategies of data collection, inferential statistics and computer assisted data management. Students will be required to design and complete a research project.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 300 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 302 - Research Methods II: Qualitative (3 cr.)

    Overview of qualitative research design methods stressing historical, ethnographic and ethnomethodological techniques, interviewing, content analysis and field observation. Students will be required to design and complete a research project.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 300 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 303 - Sociology of Development in the Americas (3 cr.)

    Effects of development and global integration of the economy and culture on peripheral urban and rural peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Topics include notions of underdevelopment, branch-plant industry, agri-export economies, subsistence and informal economies, migration, international tourism, squatter settlements, environmental issues related to development, women in development, and movements for local autonomy.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • SOC 304 - Sustainable Communities and Cultural Studies in Southern Mexico (4 cr.)

    Students will consider philosophies, theories, and aspects of development and community, especially from indigenous perspectives. Includes meetings with nongovernmental organizations and community activists, as well as fieldtrips to communities and project sites. Enrollment is limited to students participating in the Oaxaca Study Abroad Program. Course is bilingual, English-Spanish.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SPA112 or equivalent.
    Corequisite(s): SPA213 or higher.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 305 - Sociology of Women (3 cr.)

    This course examines the social construction of gender. Students will explore the impact of gender on women’s everyday experiences, including work and family situations, and the different ways in which gender structures women’s lives depending on their race, social class and age.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101  or GWS 101 .
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 307 - Social Problems and Social Policy (3 cr.)

    Examination of U.S. and world social problems. Focus on the social/political dynamics involved in the construction, causes, consequences of and alternative solutions to various issues/problems. Theoretical approaches are explored and contrasted.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
  

  • SOC 309 - Sociology of Aging and Death (3 cr.)

    This course examines the impact of social structure and history on the experience of aging and death. Age as a basis of social stratification, and the intersection of age with gender, social class, and race or ethnicity. Major issues facing older Americans and anticipated changes in these issues for future generation of elderly people will be examined.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101  or PSY 101 .
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 312 - Sociology of Families (3 cr.)

    A comparative analysis of family organization in different societies, emphasizing comparisons to contemporary families in the United States.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC101.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 314 - Sociology of Mental Health & Illness (3 cr.)

    Sociological analyses of mental health and illness: Social processes involved in the etiology and treatment of mental disorder. Epidemiological research on mental health and illness in the U.S. Contemporary policies and issues. Instruction will involve lecture, readings, individual student research projects, films and guest speakers.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): PSY 101  or SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 315 - Sociology of Health and Medicine (3 cr.)

    This course examines the sociological approach to health and medicine. It will consider the social factors that influence the domestic and transnational distribution of health and illness, the transnational social experiences and cultural meanings of illness, and the different societal responses to health care.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 316 - Working in Society (3 cr.)

    The social organization of work and working in the U.S. and the world. How the labor markets operate, and how they differ across the world. How gender, race, and class affect working, including alienation and satisfaction. The influence of changing technology. How globalizing economic structures affect working in different countries. Labor/ management relations, unionization, and workplace democracy.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 321 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (3 cr.)

    Social status, culture, and problems of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the colonial period to the present, including current immigration in a global context. Factors which facilitate or restrict immigration, integration, and assimilation or promote ethnic diversity and movements for autonomy of groups within the broader society.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 331 - Sociology of Organizations (3 cr.)

    The structure and functioning of formal organizations and their effect on individuals and social institutions. Critiques of bureaucratic structure and alternative forms of organization. Consideration of the use of organizations for social change, policy implementation and profit.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 334 - Ethnography in Southern Mexico (4 cr.)

    Classroom instruction in ethnographic techniques combined with extended field trip throughout the rural region of Southern Mexico, including Chiapas and Oaxaca, visiting a variety of environments (cloud forest, rain forest, Pacific coast mangrove regions, coffee-growing highlands), communities and indigenous peoples. Independent residence in rural indigenous community for ethnographic research. Enrollment limited to students participating in the Southern Mexico Program. SOC334 and LAS334 are bilingual, English and Spanish. SPA334 fieldwork and written work are in Spanish.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): for LAS334 and SOC334: SPA214, SOC304/LAS304. Prerequisite(s) for SPA334: SPA315, SOC304/LAS304, or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 340 - Sociological Theory (3 cr.)

    Overview of sociological theory with emphasis on the work of classical European sociologists.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 342 - Political Sociology (3 cr.)

    The course examines the social influences of the uses of power and the nature of politics in contemporary societies. Political action and political behavior will be analyzed in formal organizations (state, parties, movements) and in the larger national and world political arenas.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 355 - Sociology of Law (3 cr.)

    The course explores the nature of law and develops an understanding of law as a social institution from a variety of sociological perspectives. The functions and forms of law are analyzed in relation to changes in cultural, economic, and political conditions as well as various forms of inequality.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 367 - Sociology of the Environment (3 cr.)

    In the context of current dynamics associated with globalization, Sociology of the Environment approaches environmental issues through a sociological perspective. Topics include: social ideas of nature, environmental justice, environmental social movements, international environmental policy/issues, and the nexus between environmental science and politics.
    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 388 - Social Change and Social Movements (3 cr.)

    Examines the theory and examples of social movements based in social classes or independent areas of the world system; for example labor movements, fascist nationalism, or individual rights movements. Also looks at “new social movements” based on cultural values and personal identity; for example movements for gay rights and for environmental objectives.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 393 - Topics in Criminal Justice (3 cr.)

    Significant topics relating to the analysis of crime and its correction in modern societies will be offered so as to utilize the research specializations of faculty and provide students with an opportunity to study topics not covered in depth in other courses. Examples: corporate crime, private policing.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
  

  • SOC 399 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 406 - Sociology of Peace and War (3 cr.)

    Examination of the causes of war, from social-psychological theories, to group dynamics, to global, social-structural level explanations. Examination of the potentials for peace, including the positive peace of widespread social justice. Analysis of the costs of war: personal, economic, and social costs. Sociological analysis of specific instances of war and peace, historical and current.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101  and junior standing.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • SOC 430 - Social Stratification (3 cr.)

    Addresses the questions: who gets what and why? How are social resources (e.g., money, status, power) allocated? Why is there inequality? Focus is on class, race, gender, global inequalities and comparisons of systems.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • SOC 441 - Sociology of Globalization (3 cr.)

    Utilizes a sociological perspective to critically examine the current dynamics of what is now known as “globalization.” By placing individual biographies within a larger systemic perspective, sociology provides a crucial lens for developing an analysis of the causes and consequences of globalized economies, politics, media, and culture. Phenomena glossed as globalization have differing impacts on individuals and societies. Differently situated individuals experience globalization in varying ways. Sociology is uniquely positioned to analyze these dynamics in terms of the salience of larger categories such as gender, race, class, geopolitical location. Additionally, sociological themes such as power of transnational corporations and social movements that aim to resist that power will be addressed in the course.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): SOC 101  and one other upper-level sociology course.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • SOC 489 - Washington Internship Institute (3 to 15 cr.)
  

  • SOC 491 - Sociology Seminar (3 cr.)

    Capstone seminar for sociology majors. Concerned with selected issues in sociology, topics vary from semester to semester. Application of the sociological imagination to a specific topic.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , SOC 101 , six sociology credits.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 496 - Instructional Practicum (3 cr.)

    Supervised tutoring or classroom instructional assistance in a sociology or criminal justice course. Each student and instructor will complete a contract specifying each student’s duties. Cannot be repeated. Grading will be pass/fail.
    Prerequisite(s): POI, SOC 101  and a grade of B or better in the course in which the student will work, junior or senior standing.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 497 - Applied Sociology Seminar (3 cr.)

    This course will be taken concurrently with SOC 498 . It will provide an opportunity for interns to critically evaluate their internship experience and discuss the broad issues that emerge (e.g., problems of bureaucracies, ways of fostering change, etc.).
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • SOC 498 - Applied Sociology Internship (1 to 12 cr.)

    The student placed as an intern in a private or public organization will apply social science methods and theories to a topic of current concern to the host organization. Participation 9 to 18 hr/wk required.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): POI and chairperson; must be taken concurrently with SOC 497 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 499 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
  

  • SOC 599 - Independent Study (1 to 12 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall