SOCI 101 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY --Three hours; 3 credits.
The object of this course is to introduce the student to a systematic
study of society. Emphasis is placed upon the major concepts of sociology
and the scientific point of view in dealing with social phenomena. The
course aims to enable the student to gain an intelligent understanding
of questions which deal with humans in social relationships and to prepare
the student for the study of sociological problems.
SOCI 110 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY--Three hours; 3 credits.
This is the foundation course in anthropology which intends to introduce
the traditional four areas of the discipline (cultural, physical, linguistics,
and archaeology).
SOCI 202 RACIAL AND ETHNIC RELATIONS--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course explores some of the many ways in which societies define
racial, ethnic, majority and minority groups, including the use of stereotypes,
pseudo-history and biological myths. It also explores how such differentiation
influences self-concepts, intra-group relations, and intergroup relations.
Racial and ethnic relations characterized by prejudice, discrimination,
scapegoating, maldistribution of valued resources, and violence pose
social control and nation-building challenges that receive special attention.
SOCI 203 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY--Three hours; 3 credits. This
course involves the study of processes of socialization and the relationship
between social organization and personality development. Special attention
is given to the role of such factors as membership and reference groups,
group values, attitudes, standards, norms, language and culture in the
development of personality.
SOCI 205 CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS-- Three hours; 3 credits.
This course emphasizes the relationships between the structure of the
society and problems therein. It analyzes the importance of business,
economics, government and other institutions in the creating and solving
of social problems in modern society. Special consideration is given
to forms of deviant behavior and social disorganization such as delinquency,
crime, vices, unemployment, industrial unrest, mental disorders, family
disorganization; their incidence in society and programs designed to
control them. Searching out solutions to social problems which it examines
offers challenges and opportunities to students majoring in many fields,
including especially the fields of business, communication, and the
various social and behavioral sciences.
SOCI 206 AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES--Three hours;
3 credits. This course provides a sociological appraisal of the
condition and personality of blacks in the U. S. Attention is given
to the impact of both slavery and colonialism, and to the manner in
which the American experience has influenced the participation of blacks
in family life, education, politics, health care, the economy and housing.
SOCI 251 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL STATISTICS--Two hours lecture
and laboratory; 3 credits. This course will deal with basic statistics:
the general nature of statistical methods, the frequency distribution,
percentiles, averages, measures of variabilities, standard deviations,
the normal curve, introduction to sampling theory, testing statistical
hypothesis, analysis of variance and co-variance, etc. Emphasis will
be placed on computation and on the application of these statistics
in sociological research.
SOCI 301 SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY--Three hours; 3 credits.
This is an intermediate level course designed to acquaint students with
ethnological approaches to the study of societies in evolutionary and
cross-cultural perspectives. It also makes provision for the eclectic
reading of ethnographic case material based on anthropological fieldwork.
SOCI 302 SOCIAL THEORY--Three hours; 3 credits. This
course involves a survey of the social thought as expressed by representative
theorist in ideas of different periods. The purpose of this course is
to provide students with a comprehensive background and a perspective
for understanding the social thought from a historical and contemporary
perspective.
SOCI 303 PUBLIC OPINION AND PROPAGANDA--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course involves a study of public opinion and propaganda as processes
and their relation to social control and collective behavior. Special
attention is given to organs of public opinion, especially to the newspaper,
and to propaganda agencies and techniques.
SOCI 304 MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course involves a study of the theories of the family as an institution
to companionship. Consideration is given to the modern family as a unit
of interacting personalities, family organization and disorganization
and to contemporary problems of the family in the light of social change.
The course will also study the relationship of the family to other social
entities such as work, public policy, and socialization in the family.
SOCI 305 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND ITS SOCIAL TREATMENT--Three
hours; 3 credits. Consideration is given to theories of crime causation
and methods of punishment as a background for the study of juvenile
delinquency. Emphasis is placed upon factors of causation as revealed
through personal, family and community situations conditioning delinquent
behavior; analysis of concrete cases and juvenile delinquency; and critical
examination of current methods of dealing with juvenile offenders and
programs for the prevention of delinquency. This course will also deal
with the concept and incidence of juvenile delinquency.
SOCI 307 POPULATION SCIENCE: DEMOGRAPHY--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course involves the study of basic techniques of population analysis
and descriptions and social problems specifically from a population
and demographic point of view. Some of the problems considered include
abortion, occupation, relocation, population explosion, single-parent
families, genocide, divorce, and housing.
SOCI 308 CRIMINOLOGY--Three hours; 3 credits. This course
examines the agencies and institutions such as the police, the courts
and penal institutions, which deal with offenders. Particular attention
is given to treatment of the offender, as well as to programs of crime
prevention.
SOCI 309 DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS--Three hours; 3 credits.
Six credits of a foreign language are required or permission of the
instructor. This is an intermedial level course which acquaints students
with the structure of language including phonology, morphology and lexicon.
This course also involves the student in linguistic problem-solving
with materials extracted from a wide variety of the world's language.
Prerequisite: SOCI 110.
SOCI 315 SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT--Three hours;
3 credits. Analyses are made of the development of laws and the
administration of law. Special emphasis is placed on their effect on
social groups and mass behavior, analysis of sociological process, social
basis of legal ideologies, statutes, and legal enforcement.
SOCI 318 SOCIOLOGY OF BUSINESS AND WORK--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course examines occupational structure in society and it examines
business organizations as social institutions--from the level of single
proprietorships to the level of multi-national corporations. Also included
within its focus are the meaning of work, socio-cultural factors relevant
to occupational recruitment and retention, formal and informal organizations
that impact on business, marketing implications of social stratification,
and sociological factors affecting job satisfaction and productivity.
SOCI 319 SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT--Three hours;
3 credits. This course involves the study of behaviors and values
which characterize patterns of leisure and entertainment in a variety
of societies including the United States. Among its concerns are relationships
between leisure, on the one hand, and time-allocation, stratification,
sex roles, subcultures, and technology, on the other.
SOCI 321 URBAN SOCIOLOGY--Three hours; 3 credits. The
varying mechanisms through which the structure and functions of urban
society are integrated are scrutinized. Attention is also directed to
the methods dominance in the city as well as in the larger society.
Consideration is also given to the social consequences of urbanism.
First semester.
SOCI 340 SOCIOLOGY OF URBAN AFRICA- Three hours; 3 credits.
This course focuses on African cities and the urbanization process devoid
of stereotypes that project Africa as static and dominated by tropical
rain forests. Topics within its purview are social change, development,
and culture as they relate to the causes and consequences of urbanization.
The courses draws on both sociology and anthropology and places particular
emphasis on marriage, family systems, women, and development challenges
in African cities.
SOCI 342 SOCIOLGY OF AFRICA IN EUROPE AND ASIA- Three hours;
3 credits. This course focuses on the African Diaspora in Europe
and Asia from prehistory until the present. Course topics include human
evolution, stages of human radiation out of Africa as case studies in
migration, and a range of cultural and social problems associated with
racism and assimilation as regards people of African descent in Europe
and Asia.
SOCI 360 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF AGING--Three hours;
3 credits. This course utilizes theory, methods and research from
sociology and anthropology to explicate and analyze selected difficulties
confronted by the elderly in a variety of different societal settings.
There is an incorporation of both a social problem and a cross-cultural
approach at the same time that special attention is given to social
service needs of elderly persons in America's central cities.
SOCI 377 LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND INTIMACY--Three hours; 3 credits.
Love, friendship and intimate relations are examined from a sociological
perspective. Topics include love, the structure and function of relationships,
and the strengths, stresses and strains of intimate relations.
SOCI 378 SEX AND GENDER IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE--Three hours;
3 credits. In areas such as feminism, gay rights, changing definitions
of masculinity, male-female relations, new roles of women in the work
force, gender socialization, household formation, and domestic affairs,
the world is undergoing much change which deserves systematic study
from social scientific perspectives. Though this course uses materials
primarily from anthropology and sociology to describe and analyze selected
dimensions of sex and gender cross-culturally and through time, it has
relevance to students in numerous fields of study.
SOCI 379 SOCIOLOGY OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS--Three
hours; 3 credits. This course examines the processes by which mass
media function in society in relationship to stratification, socialization,
social control, collective behavior, social change, and the structuring
of a collective consciousness, social identity, and a sense of social
control, collective behavior, social change, and the structuring of
a collective consciousness, social identity, and a sense of social "reality."
Special attention is given to organs of public opinion and persuasion
such as magazines, newspapers, television, radio, and film. This course
is recommended for students in numerous fields of study including telecommunications,
business, psychology, philosophy, political science, education, speech,
and theatre.
SOCI 380 METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH I--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of scientific
inquiry. The student will be exposed to the processes involved in (1)
selecting and framing research questions, (2) choosing appropriate methods
and time frames for collecting data, (3) analyzing data, (4) drawing
conclusions from data, and (5) reporting findings from data analysis.
Each student will write a proposal for a study utilizing experimental,
survey, field research or some other research design important in sociology.
SOCI 381 METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH II--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course affords each student the opportunity to get "hands-on"
experience in carrying out all aspects of a social-scientific research
project. Each student is expected to orally present the project and/or
submit it to an appropriate journal.
SOCI 403 ETHNOGRAPHY OF SELECTED CULTURAL REGIONS--Three
hours; 3 credits. This course involves an in-depth study of cultural
strata in societies of a particular cultural region. The region for
any semester will be announced beforehand and the course could be repeated
for credit if the regional focus were different. Prerequisite:
SOCI 110 or permission of instructor.
SOCI 405 SOCIAL CHANGE AND FUTURISM--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course focuses on socio-cultural patterns over time that reflect
ways in which social life is renewing, remaking, changing, and transforming
itself. It devotes attention to dimensions of collective behavior and
to social movements as well as to technological competition, innovation,
and diffusion as related to occupations and to business. Futuristic
concepts of popular culture such as "future shock," "megatrends,"
"post-industrial society," "third wave," and "information
economy" are explored. The areas included for study range from
telecommunications, technology, space and genetic engineering to transformations
in families, race relations, sex roles, leisure and the post-industrial
structure to time-allocation, work and leisure.
SOCI 409 LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course introduces students to selected linguistic characteristics
which mark the world's major language families and to the analytical
study of language as related to socialization, social solidarity, conflict,
ethnic, class, and sex markers, and to collective behavior. Attention
is also given to language fads and to the social adaptability of language
in situations ranging from the formal to the intimate and from the highly
ritualized to the ordinary as well as to its expression through gestures,
body movement, and the use of space.
SOCI 441 SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND STRATIFICATION--Three hours;
3 credits. This course is designed to analyze the nature and functions
of social inequality. It will focus on the manner in which society seeks
to place individuals in various social categories on the basis of such
factors as class, age, sex, and race. The impact of these placements
on the quality of life and lifestyles of individuals and groups is also
examined.
SOCI 451 SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE CONCEPT OF RACE--Three hours;
3 credits. This course examines social thought with respect to race
and related issues.
SOCI 453 INDEPENDENT STUDY--1 to 5 credits. This individualized
experience offers an opportunity for students to undertake an internship
in sociology, in anthropology, or in criminal justice with an appropriate
agency, for students to carry out individualized research under faculty
supervision, or for students to work with a professor on research in
which he or she is undertaking. Prior to registration, each student
must obtain written permission from a professor to supervise a particular
undertaking and file it with the departmental office. This experience
may be repeated until a minimum of five (5) credits is earned.
SOCI 454 ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS--Three hours; 3 credits.
This is a highly interactive course in which students work very closely
with their professors and with each other. It affords students an opportunity
to understand and undertake small-scale research projects which rely
on observational methods, audiovisual techniques, census, and interview.
The projects that students will undertake are intended to be of special
interest to them and will be associated with day to day behaviors and
values with such domains as cooking, food consumption, symbolism, sex,
dance, speech, time-allocation, the use of space, ceremonies, biography,
aging, and dress.
SOCI 493 WORLD CULTURES AND DEVELOPMENT--Three hours; 3 credits.
This course deals with the heritage of colonialism and neocolonialism
as they impact upon the structure and functioning of developing societies
and it explores structural differences and similarities between developed
and developing societies. It explores linkages (technological, economic/
commercial, political, and socio-cultural) between developed and developing
societies and it introduces important theories of development and modernization.
The course draws on interesting case studies from areas such as Japan,
North America, and Western Europe on the developed side and from areas
such as South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southern Asia on the
developing side.
SOCI 494 SEMINAR IN APPLIED SOCIOLOGY AND PROFESSIONALISM--Three
hours; 3 credits. In this senior-level course, students will examine
ways in which sociology knowledge (concepts, theories, methods, empirical
findings) can be/is applied in social settings. Ethnical issues arising
from the application of sociology will also be examined. All seniors
are strongly encouraged to enroll in this seminar.
SOCI 495 SEMINAR IN SELECTED TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY--Three hours;
3 credits. This course will examine selected topics from a sociological
perspective. Topics will vary from semester to semester and year to
year. This course may be repeated only one time for credit.
SOCI 498 SENIOR INTERNSHIP--Five hours; 3 credits. This
course provides the opportunity for the student to obtain supervised
work experience in the major at an off-campus site selected and approved
by the Departmental Chairperson. Registration is limited to seniors
with minimum 3.0 cumulative and major averages, and requires approval
of the Departmental Chairperson. Exceptions may be approved by the Dean.
SOCI 499 SENIOR RESEARCH OR TEACHING/ TUTORIAL ASSISTANTSHIP--Five
hours; 3 credits. This course provides the opportunity for the student
to attain first-hand research or teaching/tutorial experience under
the supervision and mentorship of a tenure-track faculty member. Registration
is limited to seniors with minimum of 3.0 cumulative and major averages
and requires the approval of the Departmental Chairperson. Exceptions
may be approved by the Dean.