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SOCI 336 - Unequal Justice: Race, Class, Gender and Crime Credits 3 Race, and companion factors such as ethnicity, social economic class, gender and age are critical factors in the administration of criminal justice in the United States. This course critically examines race, class and gender within the United States criminal justice system. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 337 - Sociology of Death and Dying Credits 3 This course will examine the experience of death and dying in American society. Specifically we will explore the denial of death in our culture, and how this denial affects our experience of death, grieving, and life itself. Christian perspectives on dying will be explored and a biblical view of life, death, and the afterlife will inform our discussion. Comparisons to other cultures and other time periods in views of death will also be emphasized. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 340 - Political Sociology Credits 3 Analysis of the social processes of politics and government. Issues and influences on political processes in the United States will be stressed, as well as power, authority, and voting behavior of social groups. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 342 - Ethnic and Minority Groups Credits 3 Analysis of ethnic, racial and cultural minorities in the U.S. and selected world cultures and societies through use of basic concepts of race, racism, prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes; theoretical as well as practical application of concepts and effects on selected minority- majority relationships and racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 346 - Urban Sociology Credits 3 Sociological analysis of urbanization and urban communities. Emphasis on inequalities arising from urban social organization and on analyses of contemporary urban problems such as crime, homelessness, and ethnic conflict. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. Fee: $75. SOCI 347 - Los Angeles in Social and Cultural Context Credits 3 Analysis of the development of Los Angeles, focusing on poverty and wealth, culture and values, social ecology, social/spatial organization, access to resources, environmental change, and Los Angeles in the cultural imagination. Notes: Field-based course. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. Fee: $65. SOCI 348 - Social Change in the Developing World Credits 3 Analysis of economic, political and cultural change in developing countries. Emphasis on social processes leading to hunger, poverty, political conflict, population growth, and environmental problems in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level.
SOCI 352 - Social Inequality: Race, Class and Gender Credits 3 Examination of the basic dimensions of inequality in contemporary American society, how inequality is patterned by race, class and gender, and the effects of inequality on life chances and lifestyles. International comparisons of systems of inequality also examined. Grade Mode: A. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 353 - Religion in Public Life Credits 3 Examination of the role of religious beliefs and institutions in the public life and discourse of the U.S.; focusing on questions of religion and politics, including the impact of various religious movements on culture and society. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 354 - Religion in the City Credits 3 Sociological analysis of distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history and development of American cities. Notes: Field-based Credits 3 Major problems of social maladjustment from the viewpoint of the underlying processes of individual and social disorganization; deviant behavior, such as mental disorders, crime and delinquency, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction; social disorganization, such as population problems, family, poverty and war. Notes: Approved for Core Curriculum Credits 3 This course will provide each student with supervised professional experience in a community agency of their choice. Students will treat their internships as 'field sites', taking weekly observation notes. Weekly notes will be coded and analyzed resulting in a final research paper. Students will also be responsible for a total of 90 hours at their internship Behavioral Science credit. Grade Mode: A. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. SOCI 366 - Sociology Internship site. All internship students will meet together with a department internship instructor once a week throughout the semester at the assigned class time. This course is mandatory for social work and criminology concentrations and open to all sociology majors. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Social Work (SOWK) or Sociology (SOCI); and Undergraduate Level. SOCI 370 - American Culture and Values Credits 3 Analysis of the social bases of, and changes in, such American cultural values as individualism, consumption, work, leisure, success, and marriage and family. These are considered in the context of how values are shaped and changed by such variables as social class, education, generation and religious belief. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. course. Grade Mode: A. Prerequisites: SOCI 220. Restrictions: Must be Undergraduate Level. Fee: $50. SOCI 362 - Social Problems
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