Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

230 / SOCIOLOGY
Spring Semester S.H.
SOCL 495 Sociology Seminar .......................... 3
____ ___ Upper Division Elective ................... 3
____ ___ Upper Division Elective ................... 3
____ ___ Elective ......................................... 3
____ ___ Elective ......................................... 3
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Students may take no more than ten upper division courses
in any one department, except for Philosophy, in which the
maximum is thirteen.
SOCL 100
Principles of Sociology
3 Semester Hours
Development of the perspectives, concepts, and
methodologies needed for objective, analytical thinking
about human interaction. Relationships explored in terms
of the development of the self through interaction, basic
types of social organization, collective behavior, types of
institutions, and aspects of the total social system such as
social change and population phenomena.
SOCL 105
Cultural Anthropology
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to the social organization and culture of
preliterate and modern societies. Major emphasis is on
cultural anthropology, a study of how humans have learned
to cope with their world, and the varieties and similarities
of this coping.
SOCL 109
Social Research Methods
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to scientific inquiry and research in the
social sciences, with special emphasis on conceptualization
and operationalization process, various data collection
strategies, and the use of computers in data analysis.
SOCL 210
Elementary Social Statistics
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to basic inferential and descriptive statistics
commonly used in the social sciences. Among the topics
covered are: table construction; central tendency; variation;
probability, sampling distributions, and the normal curve;
hypothesis testing; and measures of association.
Recommended to be taken concurrently with SOCL 109.
15
SOCL 211
Advanced Social Research
3 Semester Hours
Emphasis is given to applied aspects of sociological
research, utilizing a fieldwork project resulting in a report
that embodies advanced research techniques.
Prerequisites: SOCL 109 and 210.
SOCL 301
Development of Sociological Theory
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to 19th century contributions to sociological
thought: Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and
others are examined within their historical settings.
SOCL 401
Contemporary Theory
3 Semester Hours
A survey of the variety of 20th century sociological
perspectives, including symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology,
functionalism, critical theory, and others.
SOCL 495
Sociology Seminar
3 Semester Hours
Designed as a senior seminar for Sociology majors. Stress
will be on organization and integration of sociology studies,
bringing together in a meaningful way sociological facts,
understandings, and knowledge. Students must have 90
units completed at time of registration.
Prerequisites: SOCL 211 and SOCL 301 or 401. Senior
majors only.
I. Deviance and Social Control
SOCL 322
Deviant Behavior
3 Semester Hours
A social interactionist approach to the study of deviant
behavior; an examination of the process whereby society
defines and labels an act as deviant, trends in deviance
theory, deviant careers, and the mechanisms involved in
confronting the label.