86 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
cesses of individual and social disorganiza tion; deviant behavior, such as mental disor ders, crime and delinquency, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction; social disorganiza tion, such as population problems, family, poverty and war. 367 Field Instruction I (3) Opportunity to integrate classroom learning with actual on-the-job training in a social work agency. Variety of available agency settings with placement based upon interest and academic background. 368 Field Instruction II (3) Professional services to clients by inte grating knowledge, attitudes and skills in more complex social work goals; application to a wider variety of client problems in a so cial work agency. 402 Sociology ofReligion (3) Analysis of religious practices that affect society and social factors that affect reli gious practices; Christian and non-Christian beliefs and institutions. 441 Development of Social Thought (3) Outstanding social thinkers to the 19th century; ideas of men compared and con trasted within the various societies as back ground to the development of contempo rary sociological theory. 442 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3) Survey of sociological theory with em phasis on 20th century contributions; status of sociological inquiry and theory; relation ship of sociology to such allied fields as an thropology, psychology, economics, educa tion and political science. Prerequisites: Psychology 210; Sociology 441 and 18 units of sociology. 443 Methods ofSociological Research I (3) Survey and evaluation of methods of plan ning, collecting, classifying and analyzing so cial research data. Detailed study of the sci entific method of inquiry, introduction to the use of experimental designs in sociological research. Prerequisites: Psychology 210; 18 units of sociology. 444 Methods ofSociowgical Research II (3) A continuation of the Methods of Sociological Research I course where the student will be involved in planning and conducting a minor research project. Prerequisites: Psychology 210; 18 units of sociology, including Sociology 443.
as practical application of concepts and ef fects on selected minority-majority relation ships and racial, ethnic and cultural groups. 346 Urban Sociology (3) The urban community and urbanization; its growth, institutions, values and prob lems; scientific study of population from the spatial patterning and mobility viewpoint; ef fect of urbanization upon institutions; social relations and national economy. 348 Social Change (3) A critical and comparative analysis of the sources, theories and current research of social and cultural change in contemporary society; variable issues of scarcity and plen ty, impact of microcomputer technology on society, agricultural change in the United States, selected peasant movements in de veloping countries, peacemaking and recon ciliation among peoples, an application of the sociological imagination and the future. 349 Population (3) Population theory, composition, distribu tion, growth and migration with differential fertility and mortality rates of groups and nations; national and international migra tion and overpopulation problems. 351 Collective Behavior (3) A social-psychological analysis of the nature, elements, and theories of collective behavior: crowd behavior, mass contagion, civil disorder and collective violence, disaster behavior and panic, diffuse collectives, behavior in public places and selected social movements. 355 Medical Sociology (3) Sociological description and analysis of the health and medical institutions; cultural factors in conceptions of disease , health and the healing profession. Social structure and the role of personnel in medical facilities; relation of illness to income, housing, occu pation, place of residence and other socio economic factors. 358 Death and Dying (3) Acritical analysis of how death and dying affect the everyday world in the way people cognitively and emotionally perceive death and respond to it; how our conception of death influences our construction of reality; an inter disciplinary and crosscultural approach. 362 Social Problems (3) Major problems of social maladjustment from the viewpoint of the underlying pro-
460 Topics in Sociology (3) Variable offering to include a critical anal ysis of selected topics such as Women, the Church and Society; Sociology of Sport; Law and Society; Sociology and Christian Value; Sociology of Rural Life in America. 470 Independent Study (1-3) Prerequisite: senior status with sociology major and prior to registration, consent of a professor to act as sponsor. The student must have the ability to assume responsibili ty for independent work and to prepare writ ten and oral reports. Project selected in conference with faculty sponsor before reg istration; progress meetings held regularly.
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