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on public policy regarding children at local, national, and global levels. It
also is a goal of this course to raise consciousness about the state of the
world’s children and to empower us to work effectively, cooperatively,
and justly with one another and with children and organizations in our
communities. Topics include structural violence including war and kids’
lives; poverty, race, class, and children; global inequities; social
construction of gender; child labor; poverty in the U.S. and Global South;
children’s human rights; justice, equity, and public policy. Substantial
community action/community-based learning component. (SBA)
205 Deviance and Social Control (3 credits) Why deviant and deviant
from what?; by whose standards? Various forms of behavior such as
suicide, alcoholism, homosexuality, mental illness and drug abuse are
studied within the context of American society. Considerable emphasis is placed
on social theory that helps to explain the behavior and how it comes to be defined
as deviant. This course also examines the social responses to the behavior and
the means of social control exerted by the society. Prerequisite: another
sociology course. (SBA)
208 Gender and Sexuality (3 credits) Every society constructs gender
roles and identities, values and norms to regulate the beliefs, feelings and
sexual behaviors of its members. This course seeks to explore many
dimensions of sex and sexuality within American society by providing a
wide variety of approaches to understanding the physical being and its
functioning within the sexual realm. Small group discussion, guest expert
lecturers and panelists, films, role-playing, readings, projects, and field
trips are all employed in producing the variety of approaches. (SBA)
211 Teens and Families (4 credits) Diversity of families, trends in family
change, youth and communities, adolescent identity. Substantial communitybased
work with teens is required. (SBA)
225 Human Rights (3 credits) This course will focus on the dramatic post
cold-war transformation of human rights as a focus of social struggle and
will examine the contradictions between the Human Rights standards the
U.S. demands of other countries and its own practices at home and abroad.
Prerequisite: another course in sociology. (NTW) (SBA)
230 Poverty and Affluence in American Society (3 credits) An analysis
of the distribution of wealth, income and power historically and
contemporaneously in American society with emphasis placed upon the
working conditions, living conditions, aspirations, family styles,
organizing capacities and political power of various groups ranging from
the poorest to the most affluent. (SBA)
240 Women and Social Change (4 credits) This course investigates how
societies structure gender and how race, class, and gender intersect. It
analyzes gender from interpersonal, interactional, institutional, historical,
and cross-cultural points of view. The goal of the course is to formulate a
theoretical and practical understanding of gender and gender inequality as
it exists today and to develop strategies to create more egalitarian systems.
Community organizing/group work component. Specific topics include:
feminist theory, women of color, political struggles, reproductive justice,
economic justice, body politics. Substantial community-based work is required
Prerequisite: another sociology course. (SBA)
250 Topics in Sociology (3 or 4 credits) See description for SOC 150.
Examples of recent 250 topics courses include, criminal justice, social
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