Courses: Sociology (SOC)

2310: Social Problems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Sources of major contemporary issues and social strains; the impact of urbanization, bureaucratization, industrialization, and other social processes upon the individual's life.

2320: Perspectives on the Black Experience in the United States
Cr. 3. (3-0). The black experience in selected sociological frames of reference, emphasizing social change, social movements, and institutional processes in historical and current perspectives.

2325: American Minority Peoples (formerly 3325)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Satisfies 3 hours of Social Science Core Requirement. Examines the experiences of minority groups in the United States, including American Indians, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, as well as other minority groups.

3300: Introduction to Sociological Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Analysis of major sociological theorists from the late 19th century to the present; current theoretical issues.

3311: Sociology of Law
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 and junior standing. A comparative and historical examination of the relationships between legal and non-legal institutions with a review of the major theorists including Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Selznick, Unger, and Black.

3312: The Sociology of Deviance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. The relationship of social structure to deviant behavior with specific reference to criminality, delinquency, mental disorder, drug addiction, and alcoholism.

3313: Criminology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or 2310. Theories of the origins of criminality--biological, psychological, and sociological; their logic, methodology, and data.

3315: Sexuality and Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. The sociocultural determinants of psychosexual development; the incorporation of the sexual in contemporary institutions and values. Special emphasis on sexual deviants and sexual minorities.

3316: Sociology of Sport and Leisure
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Sport and leisure behavior as manifested at both the individual and institutional levels; relationships with politics, stratification, the economy, and other areas.

3318: Introduction to Social Work
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. The United States social welfare system contrasted with other national systems with an overview of the fields and specialties in social work practice.

3320: African American Stratification
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or 2320 or consent of instructor. Processes resulting in inter-intra ethnic and racial inequality of status, wealth, and power. Dynamics of movements and change.

3321: African American Family
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Historical and sociological analysis of the African American family with emphasis on its structure, function, and unique characteristics.

3326: Immigration in U.S. Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Patterns of immigration since World War II and resulting societal change.

3327: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Theories of intergroup relations explored in terms of the experiences of racial and cultural groups in the United States. Topics include group identity and politics, ascriptive inequality and discrimination, and cultural pluralism.

3328: Race and Ethnicity in World Perspective
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Experiences of racial and ethnic groups of diverse nations in comparative perspective.

3330: Introduction to Social Psychology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Perspectives concerning the nature of social man; the explication of a model relating social institutions to character and personality.

3336: Socialization (formerly 4336)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Analysis of sociological conceptions of learning and motivation including reference groups, roles, situation identities, and socially induced motivations such as achievement, affiliation, and alienation.

3341: Sociology of Organizations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Comparison of organizations with special attention to bureaucracies, a review of the major theories with emphasis on their convergence.

3342: Sociology of Work
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours of sociology or consent of instructor. Modern industrialism as social behavior; work groups as social systems; assumption and values with regard to the meaning and place of work in American society.

3343: Social Movements
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Characteristics and constructive processes of crowds, publics, and organizations as agents of social change; case studies of specific movements.

3345: Sociology of Death and Dying
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Social factors and processes that affect attitudes toward death, dying, grief, and bereavement.

3346: Qualitative Research Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Experience in participant- observation, interviewing, visual ethnography, and other field-research skills with emphasis on computer usage.

3347: Sociology of Mass Communication
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Media participation in the social construction of reality, focusing on the interaction of social symbols and personal metaphors.

3351: Social Class and Mobility in America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Class, race, and sex inequalities in power, prestige, and life chances viewed in the context of American occupational structure and social mobility processes.

3352: Population Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: MATH 1310 or consent of instructor. Theory and methods in the study of human populations. Fertility, mortality, migration, trends of world population change, population and the environment and population and economic development.

3357: Urban Sociology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. The nature, conditions, and consequences of urbanization; growth and structure of metropolitan regions; social and demographic characteristics of urban populations.

3360: Sociology of the Military
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Level of technology, culture, and forms of the military; relationship of educational, racial, gender, socioeconomic, and age factors; military socialization and motivation.

3365: Sociology of Education
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Issues confronting American education, including desegregation, student achievement, teacher morale, student dropout behaviors, and teacher turnover.

3370: Popular Music and Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Application of sociological theory and methods to the analysis of post-World War II popular music as a social institution with emphasis on its cultural, technological, organizational, political, and mass media contexts.

3371: Sociology of the Family
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in sociology or anthropology, or consent of instructor. The family as an institution; general structures and functions; variation and types of American society.

3373: Comparative Family Structures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Historical and cross-national variations, with attention to differences between U.S. racial/ethnic groups and the impact of industrialization upon family changes.

3375: Religion and Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Conceptual problems; a typology of churches; examination of the interdependence of religious and other institutional structures.

3378: Political Sociology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Comparative analysis of the sources of political development and political participation.

3380: Introduction to the Sociology of Health Care
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Social factors in genesis and development of disease; health practitioners and practices in cross-cultural perspective; the modern American medical and other health care professions.

² 3381: Computer Applications in Political Science and Sociology (also POLS 3381)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Using mainframe and microcomputers in political and sociological research, including bibliographic, word processing, and statistical applications.

3385: Sociology of World Religions
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300 or consent of instructor. Knowledge of the world's religious systems, social-structural factors associated with their origins and development and the impact on contemporary societies.

3390: Sociology of Gender
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Contemporary gender role stereotypes and their effects on childhood socialization, major social institutions, interpersonal relationships; social movements and changing gender roles.

3397: Selected Topics in Sociology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in sociology or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

3398: Independent Studies in Sociology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of undergraduate advisor or chair. May be repeated once for credit.

3400: Introduction to Social Statistics (formerly 2400)
Cr. 4. (3-2). Prerequisite: SOC 1300, MATH 1310 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics used in sociological research. Data analysis using a personal computer.

3401: Introduction to Sociological Research (formerly 2401)
Cr. 4. (3-2). Prerequisites: SOC 1300, MATH 1310 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Ways of knowing the social world, including field methods, experiments, survey research, census data, utilization of records and existing data, and evaluation research.

4383: Senior Seminar in Sociology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: major in sociology, senior standing, two courses from the following: SOC 3300, 3400, 3401 and nine additional advanced hours in sociology or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

4394: Internship in Sociology
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: major in sociology, senior standing, two courses from the following: SOC 3300, 3400, 3401 and nine additional advanced hours in sociology and consent of instructor. Supervised field experience through placement. May be repeated once for credit by sociology majors.

4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: 3.25 cumulative GPA and 3.50 in sociology courses in residence, completion of SOC 1300, 3300, 3400 and 3401 and approval of the undergraduate advisor or chair. Must complete two semesters for Honors credit.

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