2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 159
• Interact effectively in the social context.
• Describe the significance of self-awareness in building
good human relationships.
• Distinguish between the formal and informal structures
of an organization as they relate to appropriate
human relations.
• Describe appropriate employee on-the-job behavior,
especially during the first few probationary months.
• Describe how the impact of human relations in the
leadership and motivational areas can affect productivity.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 110
Introduction to Sociology
The factors that determine social organization, behavior
and change are considered in relation to the individual
student's own life. Study is concentrated on social
intervention, culture, social class, demography, collective
behavior, institutions and socialization.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student
should be able to:
• Apply the sociological perspective to their own lives.
• Further personal development through knowledge and
in the socialization process.
• Describe the impact of the five major social institutions
on society and themselves.
• Assess present and possible future effects of social
change on their culture's and their own basic values.
• Depict the effects of living in a modern complex society.
• Use the three major sociological theoretical perspectives
to analyze a major concept within sociology.
Prereq. ENG 050 and REA 050 or pass test
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 120
Social Problems
This course studies contemporary social problems from
theoretical and practical perspectives. Field study brings
students into contact with both public and private agencies
and institutions. Special projects are required.
Upon successful completion of this course students
should be able to:
• Apply the sociological perspective to the field of
social problems.
• Describe the origin, development, and society's
possible treatment of at least two contemporary
and three traditional social problems.
Prereq. ENG 050 and REA 050
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 130 The Elderly and the Criminal
Justice System Special Studies
This course is designed to study the agencies, processes
and people involved in the criminal justice system as it
focus on problems with the elderly. Legislatures, law
enforcement, prosecution, courts, corrections issues are
studied with respect to the elderly. Emphasis will be
made on the challenges faced by the criminal justice system,
when dealing with issues associated with senior citizens.
Particular attention will be dedicated to different international
approaches to these issues in the study of gerontology.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able:
• Explain the problems faced by the police in dealing with
the Elderly as victims and as perpetrators.
• Recognize the various methods of fraud perpetrated
against Medicare and Medicaid.
• Discuss the rising rate of elder abuse as it relates to the
family, caretakers and nursing homes.
• Understand the impact of the Criminal Justice process
on the Elderly as eyewitnesses and Jurors.
• Delineate the problem of sentencing elderly
convicted offenders.
• Outline the strategies used to handle elderly prisoners.
• Discuss various international approaches to the
relationship of the Elderly to the various criminal
justice systems.
Prereq. SOC 110 or SOC 111 or PSY 110
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 180 Sociology of Marriage and
The Family
This course explores the various types of paired
relationships in American society.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the American family in terms of the three
major sociological theories.
• Explain the concepts concerning who marries whom.
• Explain human reproduction, including prenatal aspects,
childbirth, contraceptive techniques and socially
transmitted diseases.
• Assess possible future changes, marriage forms
and living arrangements as they may affect the
American family.
Prereq. ENG 050 and REA 050
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 205 Victimology Special Studies
This is a survey course covering contemporary developments
in the field of victimology, its conceptual boundaries,
its basic concepts and literature, its subfields and role as
a field of study within criminology and criminal justice.
The historical and emerging roles of victimology as a field
are examined and discussed in depth. Special attention is
paid to applied learning objectives with respect to each
student’s personal experiences with human dimensions of
victimization. This course also deals with analysis of
contemporary programs and trends in the criminal justice
system’s response to victims.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able:
• To increase familiarity with basic terms, concepts and
ideas in victimology.
• To appreciate the historical development of Victimology
and its subfields.
• To explore and analyze contemporary problems and
trends in victimology.
• To review the functions, operations and management of
the criminal justice system.
• Describe the basic components of the Criminal Justice
System which pertain to victim assistance.
• Identify the liabilities of individuals who perpetrate
criminal acts upon victims.
• Recognize the requirements of various Pennsylvania
criminal statutes in protecting victims rights.
• Identify the important role victims playing in vindicating
their own rights through victim impact statements.
Prereq. ADJ 101 or PSY 110 or SOC 111
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 207 Sociology of Urban Spaces &
Migration Special Studies
This course looks at the way in which urban space is
constructed through the movement of people, and its
relationship to culture, economics, and politics around the
world. Topics include: global cities, immigration, inequality
and social segregation.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Appreciate the different reasons people have for living in
cities and how those reasons urban life and urban form.
• Be familiar with the histories and geographies of
globalized urbanization.
• Understand some of the major similarities and differences
among cities particularly ‘global’ or ‘world’ cities.
• Be aware of forms of urban inequality both within cities
and between them.
• Know the pathways of globalized urbanization in the
older industrialized world, the developing world and on
the ‘margins of the world economy.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 210
Cultural Anthropology
The socio-humanistic facts of culture are viewed via a
thematic cross-cultural approach. Evolution of community
living from band to post-urban and its effects of individual
behavior is explored.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Apply the cultural anthropological perspective to his/her
own life.
• Demonstrate usage of the fundamental principles
involved in the study of culture to daily living.
• Explain various types of "world views" as found in
different cultures.
• Describe the impact of the cultural environment upon
the student's personality.
• Assess the effects of cultural change upon the student's
own and his/her culture's fundamental values.
Prereq. SOC 110
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 215
Experiences in Diversity
This course critically examines societal and personal
attitudes, values and norms regarding diversity. Topics
include: race, ethnicity, gender and sexual preference. We
will examine how these factors influence our perception
of self and others.
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to: Demonstrate critical thinking on issues
of race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
• Describe the impact of minority and majority status as it
pertains to economic, psychological and social experience.
• Describe the etiology of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism
and homophobia.
• List some of the contradictions of our multicultural
society and different strategies toward resolving them.
• Evaluate the positive and negative dimensions of your
own cultural experience. Identify personal values that
promote understanding and cooperation among
human beings.
• Discuss how culture and gender shape our personal
identities and behaviors.
Prereq. PSY 140 or SOC 110
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
SOC 219 The Sociology of Race And
Immigration Special Studies
In this class we will examine the Eurocentric construction
of race, delving into how it became a central organizing
principle in North American society. We will also examine
the when, the why, and the how of immigrant arrival in
the USA, paying close attention to the manner in which
various group experiences in the U.S.A. were (and are)
similar to, and different from, one another. This class will
be both historical in nature and present-day oriented.
That is, we will examine the when, why, and how of the
development of racial categories, ideology, and racism.
We will take the time to study the past because without
such knowledge we can neither understand nor examine
the current system of racial domination. This type of
inquiry will help shed light on how historical circumstances
continue to impact and shape current racialized identities
and disparities today. In this class we will examine
various racial and ethnic group experiences within the
context of race-based theories. These theories attempt to
provide explanations as to why (1) various racial groups
were/are treated in specifically different ways (accorded
privilege or penalization); (2) some racial groups were/are