Sociology Emphasis

Understanding diverse 文化s of the world, from preliterate societies to modern technological societies, is the focus of this course, and will include mankind's universal as well as adaptive dimensions; and the examination of socioeconomic, political, religious, 以及与不同民族的价值观和生活方式有关的自然环境因素.

本课程将探讨个人经历与社会文化背景之间的关系, 关注社会文化制度对人格的作用, 健康, and world view.

本课程将对宗教作为人类文化的一个方面进行比较研究，并将包括对宗教行为的实质性和功能性方法, religion as a symbol system, ritual behavior, 魔法, religious movements, and paranormal phenomena. Prerequisite: 蚂蚁210 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years.

这是一门为有意从事社会科学和教育研究的学生开设的入门课程，该课程将通过使用统计分析来解决基础统计学的基本原理, including basic descriptive measures; sampling and sample size estimation; hypothesis testing; testing for differences between means, correlation, and measures of association; techniques for analyzing categorical data; and summarizing and presenting statistical results. 重点将放在基本统计概念的应用，在社会遇到的各种各样的问题, educational, and policy-related research, 同时使用计算机软件包协助数据分析. Prerequisite: CMTH 101, MTH 201 or equivalent.

这是一门实验性的学习课程，通过开发和执行一个研究项目来研究研究技术和方法，使用以下步骤, research design, data collection and analysis, statistical computation, hypothesis testing, and theory building.

本课程将通过考察经验之间的联系，将语言作为人类的基本组成部分来学习, 文化, and language through the investigation of how language communicates, 变化, and is used strategically to accomplish 社会 ends.

本课程将探讨行为科学试图解决的核心文科问题，并将作为本专业学生的总结性经验. Prerequisites: ANT 364, BSC 265, BSC 296, BSC 318, PSY 345, SOC 321.

本课程将探讨社会影响对人格和行为模式发展的影响，包括社会化, attitude formation and change, communication, propaganda, roles and stereotypes, leadership, and collective behavior.

这门以理论和研究为基础的课程将探讨认知背后的心理过程, imagery, attention, 内存, language, reading, reasoning, decision making, and problem solving.

不像传统的模型和思想流派，把疾病仅仅看作是器官的故障或身体系统的崩溃, 本课程将介绍健康和疾病是生物之间复杂相互作用的一部分, psychological, and 社会 factors.

This course will introduce the sources, functions, and dynamics of the unequal distribution of wealth, 权力, knowledge, and prestige in an historical, comparative perspective.

As an introduction to the major problems in contemporary America, this course will focus on the causes, theoretical explanations, and 社会 policy solutions including economic, political, urbanization, environmental, family and educational problems; child abuse; 社会 deviance; crime; delinquency; and drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse.

本课程将考察选定的社会理论和理论家，以及社会理论的历史和发展，包括以下内容:社会理论的制定和评估，如社会系统, evolutionary, 正式的, phenomenological, symbolic interaction, 社会 action, and exchange theories; sociology of knowledge; and functionalism. Offered alternate years.

这门入门课程将犯罪作为一种社会现象进行科学研究，重点关注我们社会中的犯罪如何与人类生活的集体方面相关.

This course will analyze ethnicity in contemporary urban society including the relationship between sub-cultural communities and the larger society; examining the factors and processes in the formation of minority groups; and looking at strategies for changing dominant-minority patterns.

本课程将分析社会运动和集体行动在社会中的作用，通过检查每个作为理解如何的关键组成部分, 为什么, and when change takes place in society, 以及谁参与了这一变革，以何种效果参与了这一变革. Cross listed with HST 322.

本课程将提供多学科的视角来理解女性的角色，并从跨文化的角度分析女性在西方社会的地位，包括性别刻板印象, the theories of male domination, male-female relationships, women's liberation, and the role of women in the church.

本课程将探讨全球化及其对政治的影响, 社会, and cultural arrangements around the world. Students will investigate the various definitions and interpretations of globalization; analyze how globalization is experienced in different countries; and examine the various reactions to globalization - both for and against.