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| SOC 10000 - Introductory Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey course designed to introduce the student to the scene of human society. Fundamental concepts, description, and analysis of society, culture, the socialization process, social institutions, and social change. Students of junior or senior standing should take SOC 31200, unless they are sociology or law and society majors. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
CTL:ISH 1060 Introduction To Sociology
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture All Sections for this Course Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Core Transfer Library, Dept Credit, Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Continuing Ed Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Anderson Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo Lafayette New Albany Richmond South Bend Required Materials: |
| SOC 22000 - Social Problems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Contemporary problems at the community, society, and international levels, focusing on patterns of social organization and social change in American society, with concentration on such topics as technological militarism and war, poverty, racism, political protest, and cybernation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
CTL:ISH 1061 Social Problems
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture All Sections for this Course Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Core Transfer Library, Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Continuing Ed Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Anderson Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo Lafayette New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC 24500 - Field Of Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00. Examination of educational and career opportunities in the field of Sociology, major theoretical and research approaches are briefly presented to assist student preparation for subsequent courses and options in Sociology. The application process and experience of post-graduate education are reviewed. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 26100 - Basic Helping Skills For Human Services |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An overview of the various human services. This course introduces students to the history of the helping professions, professional values and ethics, and the myriad of settings in which such services are offered. Current frameworks, methods, settings, of these services are included. Not open to students with credit in SWRK 26100. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 27500 - Social Gerontology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the basic points of view and a review of the accumulated body of knowledge specific to gerontology. Consideration of the problems of population change, housing, social adjustment, retirement, mobility, family living arrangements, and finances of older people in the United States. Comparison with other countries. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Lower Division, S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 30100 - Sociology Of International Change |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of recent international developments from the sociological perspective. Topics include such issues as ethnic conflicts, trade wars, population growth, technological changes, environmental issues, famine, the collapse of the USSR, and the formation of new political/ economic rivalries. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 30200 - Group Processes |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course investigates the relationship between the individuals and the groups to which they belong. Classic and contemporary research on group processes will be discussed. Topics will include group formation, evolution, and dissolution; leadership and authority; social influence; decision making; productivity, and relationships among groups. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to explain the characteristics and forms of groups in modern life. 2. Understand how group dynamics shape personal experience and how individuals influence groups. 3. Understand how larger social patterns and inequalities are perpetuated through groups. 4. Be able to apply group theory and research to understanding and addressing contemporary social issues. |
| SOC 30300 - Sociology Of Violence |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This class explores sociological explanations of violence in the United States. Topics under study include: personal violence, sexual and intimate violence; prejudice, violence and hate crimes; violent crime; state violence; corporate violence and victimology. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the sociological perspective on the nature, causes, and consequences of violence. 2. Understand how sociological explanations of violence are distinct from biological and individualistic explanations. 3. Be aware of the patterns and trends of violence in the United States. 4. Examine how institutional responses (e.g., social service organizations, medical and legal systems) can both perpetuate and alleviate violence. |
| SOC 30600 - Methods In Human Services |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The class will focus on case mangement techniques that will be used in format systems such as welfare programs, health care and mental health agencies, child care programs, agencies serving the elderly and the corrections industry. Emphasis will be placed on multidimensional assessment techniques, information and referral services and the skills necessary to act as a change agent, educator and facilitator. Other essential elements of the course include crisis intervention, the dynamics involved in family systems, health promotion, and the needs of special populations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 30700 - Field Experience In Human Services |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The field experience component of the Human Services curriculum provides a supervised learning experience in a professional practice setting. The participants in the field practicum include the student, faculty and agency supervisor. This will give students the opportunity to integrate carefully selected and approved individualized experiences as they actively engage in professional tasks which complement and reinforce classroom learning. The seminar that accompanies the course will provide opportunities for student peer relationships and for the development of beginning competencies as students learn to use supervision and focus on specific practice areas. The course will place particular emphasis on the needs of each student. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Practicum, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times Learning Outcomes: 1. Provides a supervised learning experience in a professional practice setting. 2. Gives students the opportunity to integrate carefully selected and approved individualized experiences as they actively engage in professional tasks which complement and reinfoce classroom learning. 3. Provide opportunities for student peer relationships and for the development of beginning competencies as students learn to use supervision and focus on specific practice areas. 4. Places particular emphasis on the needs of each student. |
| SOC 31000 - Racial And Ethnic Diversity |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines racial and ethnic pluralism in America: ways groups have entered our society; their social and cultural characteristics; and their relationships with other groups. Groups include the English, Germans, Irish, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture All Sections for this Course Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Anderson Kokomo Lafayette |
| SOC 31200 - American Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An exposure to sociology, focused on American sociology and society (the
U.S.), recommended for juniors and seniors who are not sociology or law and society majors. Students with freshman standing or who have had SOC 10000 may not enroll in this class without special permission. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 31400 - Race And Ethnic Relations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the social, psychological, political, economic, and cultural factors that influence society's treatment of members of various racial and ethnic groups, and those factors that influence the ways those factors that influence the ways those groups interact with each other. Not open to students with credit in SOC 51400. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 31501 - Gender In Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The course focuses on the ways in which society influences individual experiences and understandings of gender and the impact this has on larger social institutions, including education, marriage and family, health, and work. This course also considers the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity, and social class. The influence of feminist theory on our understanding of gender is also discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 31600 - Industry And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the social content and consequences of industrial development and introduces key issues in industrial sociology, including technological change, management systems, labor organization, community development, and international relations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network West Lafayette |
| SOC 31700 - Sociology Of Sex And Sexualities |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on sociological understandings of sex and sexualities by identifying existing tensions and paradoxes in how sex and sexualities are socially understood, discusses, experienced, and portrayed. Topics under study may include: distinctions between sexual behaviors and sexual identities; the historical invention of sexual-identify categories; sex work; sexualized violence; and interactions of other social identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, class, age, gender) with sex and sexualities. This course also examines the ways in which U.S. social laws, policies, education, public opinion, media, religion, and technology work to construct, shape, recognize, and regulate the existing diversity of sex and sexualities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Critique binaries of sex using evidence from the physical and social sciences. 2. Describe and differentiate between the concepts of sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexuality. 3. Identify and distinguish between, political, moral, and empirical understandings of sex and sexualities. 4. Consider the ways in which sex, race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, ability and other factors intersect to shape the experiences and opportunities of individuals and groups. |
| SOC 31800 - Sociology Of Sport |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides a sociological understanding of the institution of sports. It particularly investigates the role of politics, the economy, and the media in the creation of sports as an institution. The variables of race class and gender are emphasized, as are the links between sports and basic American values. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 32000 - General Social Organization |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of selected areas of social organization. Institutions as special forms of organizations and bureaucracies. Theories and empirical studies of power and decision making in organizations. Case studies of American organizations and institutions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 32400 - Criminology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. (CRJU 32400) Nature and cause of crime; methods of dealing with adult and juvenile offenders, consideration of present programs for the social treatment of crime in the light of needed changes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Lafayette |
| SOC 32500 - Social Forces And Social Movements |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the social, political, economic, and social psychological conditions that give rise to social movements, the ideological perspectives of major social movements, and the inter-relationships between social movement and social change. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 32600 - Social Conflict And Criminal Justice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the dynamics of social conflict, with a special focus on legal institutions and criminological processes. Students will learn to think more analytically about the causes of social conflict, its dynamics, and strategies for resolution. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 32700 - Crime, Deviance And Mass Media |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Various forms of mass media are used to explore the sociology of crime and deviance. Topics may include white collar crime, juvenile delinquency, street crime, sexuality and sexual orientation, hate crimes, deviance and community. Assignments include quizzes and short papers. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: To build students' capacities in the areas of critical thinking, written and verbal communication, and to apply abstract concepts. On the quizzes, students will be able to identify concepts associated with specific theoretical perspectives and be able to describe these concepts. On their paper assignments, students will be able to use these concepts to the media forms presented in the class. Specifically, they will be able to: 1) use the concepts to craft explanations for characters' actions in the fictional films and 2) be able to conduct analyses of the news that conform to accepted methodological standards of quantitative and qualitative research. |
| SOC 32800 - Criminal Justice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to institutionalized responses of society to the problem of crime. Analysis of the administration of justice in each of the major components of the criminal justice system and laws regulating their operations. Some consideration given to comparative criminal justice. Typically offered Fall Spring.
CTL:ISH 1030 Introduction To Criminal Justice
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Core Transfer Library, S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Anderson Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo Lafayette New Albany Richmond South Bend Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the Criminal Justice System in the United States, including the relationships between federal, state and local units of government. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the pathway which an individual follows from first arrest to incarceration. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the differential criminalization and sanctions connected to domestic, street, and corporate forms of violence and crime. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of class, race/ethnicity and gender in criminal justice. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the major policy debates regarding crime control and criminal justice. |
| SOC 33000 - Culture, Arts, Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The relations of the arts to society; the production, diffusion, institutionalization, democratization of the arts, with attention to the consequences of diverse media structures organization, marketing, and support structures. Emphasis will be placed on related emerging social roles, the connection between art and politics, elite versus mass arts, and the arts and cultural values. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 33400 - Urban Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of the city and its functions; types of social behavior in cities; influences of city life on personality; city planning. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Continuing Ed Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 33800 - Global Social Movements |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores dynamics of social movements in the world; emphasizes movements in non-western world. Examines emergences of movements, mobilization, tactical actions and consequences, and formal and informal organizations within movements to understand how international, national and local structures affect people. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 33900 - Introduction To The Sociology Of Developing Nations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the causes of development in the Third World. Topics include: the food crisis; population growth; poverty and inequality; industrialization, including the role of multinational corporations; debt; and the International Monetary Fund. Regional differences in patterns and causes analyzed. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 34000 - General Social Psychology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social influences on the individual and processes of social interaction. Individual attitudes and behavior as related to socialization, social norms, social roles, communication and propaganda, and other social influences. Among the interaction processes considered are interpersonal attraction, influence, leadership, cooperation, and conflict. Not open to students with credit in PSY 24000. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Lafayette |
| SOC 34100 - Culture And Personality |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A cross-cultural survey stressing differing basic personality types and the processes by which adult personality is acquired. Case studies of selected non-Western cultures will be used to provide comparative perspectives. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 35000 - Social Psychology Of Marriage |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed to provide an understanding of contemporary courtship, marriage, and family interaction as cultural, social, and social-psychological phenomena. Consideration of the major sources of marital strain and conflict within a heterogeneous, rapidly changing society. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 35200 - Drugs, Culture, And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 35200) The course provides an overview of the social and cultural underpinnings of drug use across societies. Students engage with various topics, including addiction, global markets, drug epidemics, public policy, and cross-cultural differences in drug use. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 35201 - Drugs Culture And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 35201) The course provides an overview of the social and cultural underpinnings of drug use across societies. Students engage with various topics including addiction, global markets, drug epidemics, public policy, and cross-cultural differences in drug use. Typically Offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the trends, patterns, and types of drug use in the U.S. and cross-culturally. 2. Analyze the various social responses to drug use, displaying an understanding of the emergence of these responses being linked to particular cultural and social structural shifts. 3. Analyze the social construction of drug use as a social problem. 4. Differentiate the contributing factors in the process of evaluating substance abuse and dependence. |
| SOC 35600 - Hate And Violence |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the causes of and solutions to hatred and violence. Concepts such as anti-Semitism, discrimination, hate crimes, prejudice, racism, bullying, homosexual prejudice, terrorism and other topics will be addressed. This course uses experiential activities, videos, guest speakers and classroom discussion. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 36100 - The Institution Of Social Welfare |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic concepts and activities of social service organizations. Field trips to selected institutions. Not open to students with credit in SWRK 36100. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 36400 - Child And Family Welfare |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A review of the family as it is influenced by societal and personal forces. The impact of culture, society, and economics on the family is reviewed; additionally, the personal and interpersonal factors including family crises, breakdowns, unemployment, and alcoholism are considered. Not open to students with credit in SWRK 36400. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 36500 - Constructing American Families |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course considers changes and variations in the forms and portrayals of family and family life in the U.S. across time. Topics under study may include: how gender, race, and class shape family roles and family labor (care work); processes of courtship, dating, cohabitation, partnership, marriage, parenthood, and divorce; multiracial/multiethnic families; gay and lesbian families; and family violence. This course also examines the ways in which U.S. social laws, policies, economy, public opinion, media, religion, and technology work to construct, shape, recognize, and regulate the diversity of family forms that exist. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Utilize social science empirical evidence to analyze the shape, form, and structure of families and family life in the U.S. 2. Develop an awareness if the ways in which families are socially constructed in both history and the present. 3. Develop a critical response to the notion that there has been a "golden age" of family life in the U.S. 4. Develop awareness of the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and other identities intersect to produce and limit possibilities for the formation and success of particular families. |
| SOC 36700 - Religion In America |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the social dimensions of religion in American life; religion in American culture; social profiles of America's religious groups, trends in individual religious commitment; and religion's impact on American life.
. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 36800 - The Social Significance Of Religion |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines religion's relationship with family, work, politics, gender, war and peace, race and ethnicity, health, crime and deviance, education, law, and poverty. Content differs each time course is taught. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times |
| SOC 36900 - Religion And Chinese Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an overview of various religions in contemporary China, examines religiosity at the micro, meso and macro levels, and discusses the mutual impacts between religion and social, cultural and political life in Chinese societies. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the key teachings and rituals of the major religions in Chinese society. 2. Describe the general social characteristics of religious believers in contemporary Chinese society. 3. Explain the major social and political events and their impacts on religious change. 4. Appreciate religious diversity and cultural significance in the increasingly globalizing world. |
| SOC 37300 - Gender And Interaction |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to the social psychology of gender. In this course we will examine how gender shapes our everyday experiences and interactions. The social psychology of gender is inherently an interdisciplinary field and so over the course of the semester we will be drawing on both sociology and psychology to consider the reciprocal relationship between the social environment and individual experiences and understandings of gender. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to understand and critique the influence of society on our understanding of gender. 2. Be able to understand and critique the impact gender has on both women and men in society in both theoretical and practical terms. 3. Be able to understand and apply theories of social psychology (i.e. status characteristics theory, social cognition) and gender (i.e. doing gender, two culture theory, social role theory, gender difference, gender similarities) to understand how gender influences everyday interactions. |
| SOC 37400 - Medical Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an overview of the sociological determinants and consequences of health, the patient experience, health care providers, the organization of the health care system. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 37700 - Sociology Of Mental Health |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines social influences and consequences of mental health and illness. Considers definitions of psychological disorders, stress, stigma, labeling, and treatments. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand sociological approaches to mental health and illness. 2. Become familiar with issues in the history of mental illness and treatment. 3. Evaluate the origins and consequences of social policies toward mental disorder. 4. Examine the emergence and application of specific categories of mental disorder. 5. Examine the integration of social and biomedical approaches to mental illness. |
| SOC 38200 - Introduction To Statistics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the basic techniques of statistical analysis applicable to sociological data. Elementary descriptive statistics and statistical inference. Introduction to multivariate analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Indiana College Network, Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture, Recitation Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Continuing Ed Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 38300 - Introduction To Research Methods In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the methods of data collection and analysis and to the use of the scientific method of social research. Formulation of hypotheses and research designs for their testing. Elementary principles for the conduct of experiments, observation and interviewing, documentation, content analysis, and surveys. Relationship between social research and social theory. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 39000 - Individual Research In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individual research or reading in an area of sociology under the guidance of a sociology faculty member. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits |
| SOC 39100 - Selected Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Various topics in sociology that may change from semester to semester are presented by sociology faculty members. Typically offered Fall Spring.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits |
| SOC 40200 - Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced critical treatment of the theories, concepts, and methods of sociology. A basic course required of undergraduate majors in sociology. Typically offered Fall Spring.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture, Recitation Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 40300 - Sociology Of Developing Countries In Era Of Globalization |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to acquaint students with the conditions in and faced by people in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. This will be done with an overview of development and how that has affected these countries, and how that is changing in the shift from development to globalization. This course will also examine these countries' interactions with the United States. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to think and write critically about issues concerning developing countries in the world. 2. Acquire a better understanding of the meaning and consequences of social change currently taking place, both in the US, and around the world. 3. Learn the meanings of major concepts in sociology, and will get to consider the ramifications of our understanding of social phenomena by using the different models that have been developed to describe social reality. 4. Learn of social development within a global context that has developed historically. 5. Examine their values, attitudes and relations to other people, whether in small groups, different ethnic, racial and/or gender grouping, or nations. |
| SOC 40400 - The Environment And Social Justice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to give students a sociological look at the social interaction between human beings and their physical environment-accordingly, it will not focus on the physical environment alone. Course will provide different theoretical frameworks to understanding society, and will take a global approach to the subject. Course will discuss a number of environmental issues that are especially important in the world, as well as subjects of more immediate concern in Northwest Indiana. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to think and write critically about issues concerning environmental issues. 2. Acquire a better understanding of the meaning and consequences that environmental issues hold in Northwest Indiana, across the entire United States, and around the world. 3. Learn the meanings of major concepts in looking at the issues around the interactions between human beings and the environment. 4. Examine their values, attitudes and relations to the environment, other human beings, and other specifics of life. 5. Learn about possible factors to improve the human-environment interactions, and to minimize the impact of humans on the planet. |
| SOC 40500 - Power, Social Control And The Media |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to give students an introductory, macrosociological look at the mass media in society today. This will examine the mainstream media, as well as the newly emerging media-including the internet-as used both by mainstream and alternative outlets, and examines the impact of media on social existence. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to think and write critically about issues concerning media and related issues. 2. Comprehend the role of advertising and its effects on the free flow of information in society. 3. Acquire a better understanding of the meaning and consequences that the media has on contemporary American society. 4. Understand the importance of social location of various media within established media networks. 5. Appreciate the importance of models of society used to represent society, and importance in interpreting news in the media. |
| SOC 40600 - People's Movements And Social Power |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will introduce students to the study of social movements, which are a major source of social change in the world today. Will look at a number of social movements from a global perspective. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to think and write critically about issues concerning social movements in the US and globally. 2. Become aware of the role social movements have played in social changes processed in the US and around the world. 3. Understand major theoretical approaches to the study of social movements. 4. Acquire an understanding of the impact that social movements have had historically on US society. 5. Comprehend the global nature of social movements. 6. Be able to understand the relationship between social movements and individuals. |
| SOC 40700 - Sociology Of Religion |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will provide students with an opportunity to think about religious experience and religious organizations as a part of a larger social order by providing a sociological overview of the nature and functions of religious beliefs and institutions in modern societies. Topics will include: the nature of religious organizations and the process of secularization; the role of religious organizations in social change and social stratification; the development and influence of religiosity and religious identity in the lives of individuals; and the relationship between religion and science. Typically offered Fall Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Become familiar with and learn to apply classical sociological work on religion to modern social life. 2. Learn to distinguish between types of religious organizations. 3. Develop the ability to look at religion using a sociological perspective. 4. Explore the difference between religious affiliation and religiosity. 5. Explore the development of religious identity and religiosity in the social context. 6. Explore the ways that religion influences daily life at the micro-level. 7. Explore the role of religious organizations in the process of social change. 8. Explore the debates surrounding contemporary issues connecting science and religion. |
| SOC 40800 - Inequality And The Individual Experience |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The course will examine how structural inequalities such as those related to race, class, and gender are created and reproduced and sometimes challenged through social interaction. Students will learn to apply social psychology to combat contemporary social inequalities in diverse settings such as education, family, government, and the workplace. Typically offered Fall Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Have developed a further understanding of basic concepts within social psychology and stratification. 2. Have examined how social inequality is reproduced through interaction. 3. Have examined how beliefs about categories of people based on characteristics such as disability, sexual orientation, age, as well as race, class and gender people are internalized and confirmed through selective perceptions. 4. Have explored how interaction can also challenge and alter beliefs about categories of people. 5. Have learned to utilize social psychological research and theory to overcome existing patterns of inequality. |
| SOC 41100 - Social Stratification |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of systems of class and caste, with special attention to the United States; status, occupation, income, and other elements in stratification. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 41200 - Social Change |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of social change in premodern and modern societies. The following topics will be included: theories of social change, current patterns of social change in the developing and industrial worlds, changes in socialization patterns, interpersonal relations, social institutions, the impact of social change, the desirability of growth and development and the dilemmas of modernization. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 41600 - Industrial Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an overview of the historical development of industrial organizations from craft production through the factory to multinational corporations. Examines changes in managerial practices and ideologies and workers' reactions. Explores other institutions (including government, schools, mass media) affecting industrial development. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 41900 - Sociology Of Law |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an overview of American legal thought and legal processes. Major topics include definitions of law; anthropological studies of law; origin and development of law; jurisprudence; police behavior; lawyers and courts; deterrent and labeling effects of legal sanctions. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 42100 - Juvenile Delinquency |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of social and psychological factors influencing individual delinquent behavior patterns. Emphasis on preventive and rehabilitative programs and the role of community agencies such as social service agencies, juvenile courts, and youth authorities. Visits to selected organizations and institutions. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 42200 - Criminology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Nature and cause of crime; methods of dealing with adult and juvenile offenders; consideration of present programs for the social treatment of crime in the light of needed changes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 42300 - Field Practicum In Sociology And Law And Society |
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Credit Hours: 4.00. Field experience in criminal justice system or social services. Students serve as "interns" in a criminal justice or social service agency one day (or its equivalent) per week, under the supervision of agency personnel. Application of theory and empirical research findings to field problems. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
0.000 OR 4.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential, Lecture All Sections for this Course Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Learn professional skills from a working professional. 2. Discover the relation between academic and practical knowledge |
| SOC 42600 - Social Deviance And Control |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological and social psychological study of social control and social deviance. Emphasis on theoretical frameworks and empirical research. Consideration also given to specific areas such as substance abuse, suicide, violence, and deviant collective behavior. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 42900 - Sociology Of Protest |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the sociological study of protest. Topics include protest emergence, individual reasons for participation in protest, and outcomes. Course readings cover protest in the United States as well as other cultural contexts. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 43000 - Sociology Of Aging |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the theories of aging, problems confronting older persons, and programs designed to assist the elderly. Consideration of social aspects of aging in the U.S. in the areas of retirement, employment, housing, income, health care, and the family relationships with cross-cultural and a historical comparisons. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 43100 - Services For The Aged |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course describes current and alternative models for providing community and institutional-based services for the aged. Intervention theories and strategies for providing human services are discussed. Students are expected to apply course concepts when developing ideas for an evaluating existing services for older people. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 44000 - Sociology Of Health And Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the social aspects of health beliefs, the definition of disease, and decisions regarding the seeking of medical care. Identification of major changes in patterns and frequencies of health, sickness, disease, and death in the 20th and 21st centuries and factors influencing these patterns. Analysis of characteristics of U.S. medical care systems with particular emphasis on the economics and ethics of health care delivery, the production and distribution of medical personnel, and comparisons with other systems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 44300 - Field Experience In Criminal Justice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Observation and supervised participation in the criminal justice system. Readings and class meetings to integrate theory and experience. Intended for students who plan to become employed in the criminal justice system upon receiving the bachelor's degree. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Practicum, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times Learning Outcomes: 1. Ability to utilize skills and techniques acquired through previous courses and apply them to their chosen agency's culture and function in assisting the community. |
| SOC 45000 - Gender Roles In Modern Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical examination of the complementary roles of men and women, with particular attention to problems of role adjustment in the contemporary United States. The neofeminist movement and countermovements. Role conflicts and adjustments in such areas as family, education, employment, and the political arena. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 45300 - Intimate Violence |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines violence between intimates across the life span starting with child abuse and ending with abuse against the elderly. The perspectives used include social learning theory, gender role socialization and sociocultural values. Current research as well as emerging themes about the transmission of violence, learned behavior, and victimization will be used in this class. Assessment techniques are a major part of the class. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond |
| SOC 45400 - Family Violence |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Child abuse, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse are examined with a focus on correlates, treatments and prevention strategies. Definitions of family violence and the social contexts related to family violence are assessed. Legal and medical models to explain family violence are compared. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture, Recitation Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network West Lafayette |
| SOC 46000 - Field Experience In Gerontology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Supervised volunteer field experience in a gerontological setting. Intended as an opportunity for practical experience in an organization providing services to older adults, where theoretical concepts can be applied with skills and techniques for dealing with older adults can be developed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
0.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Practicum, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times Learning Outcomes: 1. Provides a student secured, supervised learning experience in a professional practice setting for 110 hours. 2. Gives students the opportunity to integrate carefully selected and approved individualized experiences as they actively engage in professional tasks which complement and reinforce classroom learning. 3. Provide opportunities for student peer relationships and for the development of beginning competencies as students learn to use supervision and focus on specific practice areas. |
| SOC 48900 - Research Internship In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Course organized around offsite internship experiences in organizations that collect or analyze data from surveys, social media, focus groups, interviews, or experiments. Work experience supplemented and put into context by readings, group meetings, written assignments and regular communication with instructor. Completion of 60 credits with a minimum GPA of 3.0, including 15 credits of Sociology with a minimum grade of B in SOC 10000, SOC 38200, and SOC 38300. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Internship, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand sociological research methods in practice. 2. Accumulate knowledge, skills, and experience for doing applied sociological research. 3. Understand the nature of jobs and careers involving sociological research. 4. Understand requirements for success in jobs and careers involving sociological research. 5. Accumulate knowledge, skills, and experience for succeeding in these types of jobs. |
| SOC 49100 - Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Dept Credit, Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC 49300 - Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Seminar |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An undergraduate seminar devoted to an interdisciplinary examination of social, economic, political, and intellectual movements, using the faculty resources of the participating departments. Subject matter will vary. Each offering of the seminar will be approved by a committee of department heads from the sponsoring departments. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC 49700 - Senior Honors Seminar |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical examination of some major works in sociology and anthropology, both classical and modern, and of some current theoretical and substantive issues in these disciplines. Open only to students in the departmental honors program. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Honors, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 49800 - Senior Honors Paper |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The production of a major paper on a topic selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. The students will meet early in the semester for orientation and discussion of topics; in the middle of the semester for progress reports; and late in the semester for presentation and critique of their papers. Open only to students in the departmental honors program. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Honors, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 51400 - Racial And Cultural Minorities |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. America's minority groups; immigration; interracial and intercultural conflicts; assimilation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 52000 - Work In Contemporary America |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines meaning and organization of work in technological society, including job satisfaction, alienation, mobility, conflict, stratification, and unemployment and the impact of race-sex composition of occupations on mobility and politics. Also considers relations with colleagues, organization, clients, and public. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 52500 - Social Movements |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Origins and developmental stages of revolutionary and reform movements and communitarian societies; relation between social structure and political attitudes; personality needs and affinity for social and political ideologies. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 52900 - Introduction To Political Economy: A Sociological Perspective |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines and evaluates concepts, propositions, and theories within Marxian approaches to an analysis of contemporary society. Topics include (but are not limited to) class structure and class formation, the labor theory of value, historical materialism, and surplus value. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 53000 - Political Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the social and social psychological sources of routine political participation such as voting and interest group activity, and nonroutine political action such as protest movements and revolution; the organization of power at the community, national, and international level; and political ideology. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 53100 - Community Organization |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the local community in terms of its institutional structure, relationships among institutions, political and economic power relationships, and the role of voluntary organizations and interest groups. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 55400 - Social Psychology Of The Family |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of interactional aspects of the modern American family emphasizing variation in family patterns, marital roles, power, influence, attraction conflict and control. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 56700 - Religion In Social Context |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the social bases of religion at the societal, organizational, and individual levels. Topics include the formation of religious groups and ideas; social dynamics within religious groups; religion's persistence over time; and the conditions under which religion tends to change. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 56800 - Religion And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines religion's relationships with other spheres of social life. Other areas include family life, education, economy, politics, health, media, inequality, deviance, and social movements. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 57000 - Sociology Of Education |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the American public school as a social organization. Includes: interrelations among community power structure, social stratification, and the school; the roles of superintendent, principal, and teacher in community and school; the classroom as a social system; student culture; and teaching as a profession. Typically offered Summer Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette |
| SOC 57100 - Health And Social Behavior |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A sociological examination of health and illness that emphasizes the patient and his or her relations to others. Considers the distribution of illness, stress, health and illness behavior, patient-practitioner relationships, and treatment modes. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 57200 - Comparative Healthcare Systems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Using cost, quality, and access to care as core concepts, this course explores healthcare in comparative context. Special topics are health and gender, the environment, epidemics, long-term care, technology, and rationing, among others. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 57300 - The Human Side Of Medicine |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on sociological theory and research related to social conflicts over the delivery of healthcare in the U.S. Considers social issues pertaining to abortion, AIDS, human experimentation, reproductive technologies, euthanasia, and others. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 57400 - The Social Organization Of Healthcare |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the determinants and consequences of the social organization of medical care. Considers morbidity and mortality, costs and utilization of medical services, healthcare occupations and institutions, and change in programs and policies. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville West Lafayette |
| SOC 57600 - Health And Aging In Social Context |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the social and cultural influences on health in adulthood and later life. Considers distribution of illness among older adults, health behavior, and health services use, including long-term care. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 57800 - Disability And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The course analyzes the phenomenon of disability from a sociological frame of reference. The course focuses on the role of language and social roles, the effect of public policy upon individuals with disability, the portrayal of disability in popular cultures, the role of technology on the lives of individuals with disability and the challenges confronting our society and its treatment of disability. Students will experience the impact of disability on individuals through an array of educational activities. The structure of the course is designed to facilitate direct contact by students with a disability. The course is also designed to enhance students learning through various readings, assignments, and videos. The students should have regular and consistent access to the Internet and should have the basic skills to navigate the Blackboard site for the course, as well as Word processing software. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Acquire an understanding of how social roles and language define disability through written descriptions of this phenomenon. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of public policy in the lives of individuals with disability. This will be demonstrated through the completion of five reflection papers as well as different discussion threads. 3. Become acquainted with the role that media plays in the portrayal of disability in our society and how people with disabilities have adapted to these portrayals. This will be demonstrated through the completion of five reflection papers as well as different discussion threads. 4. Become aware of how technology is affecting the lives of individuals with disability. This will be demonstrated through the completion of five reflection papers as well as different discussion threads. 5. Understand the ethical debates that confront society related to valuing individuals with disability. This will be demonstrated through the completion of five reflection papers as well as different discussion threads. |
| SOC 58000 - Methods Of Social Research I |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An intermediate-level examination of research designs, measurement, and sampling with emphasis on issues of problem formulation and the logic and application of methodological procedures. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 58100 - Methods Of Social Research II |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasis on statistical inference applied to sociological problems; topics include the binomial distribution and the logic of inference, one and two sample tests, confidence intervals, and chi-square. Introduction to bivariate correlation and regression, analysis of variance. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 58300 - Application Of Social Research Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific methods of survey research, including questionnaire construction, and sampling techniques, as well as case studies and field experiments are covered. Emphasis is on the use of such methods and their implications for the nature of social data. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 59000 - Individual Research Problems |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individual research or reading in an area of sociology under a sociology department staff member. Does not include thesis work. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Individual Study Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC 59100 - Selected Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: S General Education, Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Hammond West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits |
| SOC 60000 - Development Of Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of sociological thought in Western Europe and subsequently in the United States from the publication of Marx's early manuscripts through the sociological writings of the 1940s. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 60200 - Contemporary Sociological Theories |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A companion course to SOC 60000. Examination of the works of recent and contemporary sociological theorists such as Durkheim, Weber, Pareto, Parsons, and Merton, and of major theorists in related disciplines such as Marx, Freud, and Malinowski. Includes an examination of major "schools" or frames of reference such as ecology, structural-functionalism, etc. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 60300 - The Individual In Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines social influences on the individual. Socialization, social class, racial and ethnic memberships, organizational and occupational memberships, and mass media are among the social influences considered. Prerequisite: SOC 34000. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 60900 - Seminar In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC 61000 - Seminar On Teaching Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Acquaints students with the literature on teaching sociology and its issues and provides practice instruction through videotaped microteaching, syllabus and examination construction, etc. A theoretical or research paper is required. Prerequisite: Master's student standing. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 61100 - Social Inequality: Class, Race, And Gender |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of major approaches (functional, status attainment, labor market, class, culture) to the sociological study of inequality, including qualitative and quantitative, historical and comparative studies. Students will be asked to complete a project analyzing inequality, which might provide the basis for a publishable paper. Prerequisite: Master's student standing and Sociology majors only. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 63000 - Seminar In Political Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Intensive consideration of a selected topic or set of topics in political sociology such as political socialization, political movements, comparative political analysis, political ideology in the industrialized West.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times |
| SOC 65900 - Seminar In Marriage And The Family |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Seminar in Marriage and the Family. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times |
| SOC 66700 - Seminar In The Sociology Of Religion |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines topics of traditional or emerging interest in the sociology of religion. Topics covered depend on the theoretical research interests of participating faculty and students. Prerequisite: SOC 56700 or 56800. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 2 times |
| SOC 67400 - Seminar In Medical Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Seminar in Medical Sociology. Prerequisite: SOC 57100, 57400. Typically offered Spring.
2.000 OR 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits |
| SOC 67700 - Research Seminar On Aging And The Life Course |
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Credit Hours: 1.00. An interdisciplinary seminar examining recent research on aging and the responsible conduct of research. Emphasis is given to professional development in gerontology and related fields. Typically offered Fall Spring.
1.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 3 times |
| SOC 68000 - Advanced Social Research Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey analysis using regression models. Emphasizes ordinary least squares model applied to sociological problems. Also considered are path analysis and logit and logistic regression. A series of projects are required using the PUCC mainframe computer applying course concepts. Prerequisite: SOC 58100 or 60000. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 68100 - Selected Problems Of Social Research |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Working with already available data, each student will conduct one or more research projects, including conceptualization, operational procedures, analysis of the data, and report writing. The data to be used may be from surveys, small group studies, organizational studies, or written documents. Prerequisite: SOC 60000 or 68000. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 2 times |
| SOC 68600 - Qualitative Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys qualitative research methods. Considers methods of data collection and data analysis, including computer-assisted techniques. Critical examination of perspectives, assumptions, and issues, including protection of human subjects. Students conduct research projects and write papers using techniques encountered in class. Prerequisite: SOC 58000. Typically offered Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette |
| SOC 69300 - Interdisciplinary Seminar |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A seminar on a topic of interdisciplinary interest, taught in cooperation with a member of another department. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Course Attributes: Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times Learning Outcomes: 1. Expand horizons and develop critical thinking skill through exposure to different disciplines. |
| SOC 69500 - Analytic Project In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00 or 6.00. Designed to provide experience in defining a research problem, in assessing knowledge and research about the problem, and in analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 58000, 58100. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 OR 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Individual Study Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC 69900 - Research PhD Thesis |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 18.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Research Offered By: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC B1000 - Principles Of Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to sociology. Gives an understanding of theories and research on social structures, processes, and problems.
. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC B1900 - Human Behavior And Social Institutions |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Develops insights into human nature, the nature of social institutions, the social processes that shaped the world of the twenty-first century. In an interdisciplinary way, introduces the distinctive perspectives of the social sciences, emphasizing frameworks and techniques used in explaining causes and patterns of individual and institutional behavior. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: South Bend |
| SOC B2420 - Social Problems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Discussion and analysis of current social problems within American society. Examines political, economic, and social dimensions of problems, their causes, and possible solutions.
. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC P5100 - Seminar On Organizations And The Individual |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on the interplay between social structural factors and individual actions. Examines basic principles of social organizations as well as variations in types of organizational arrangements. Explores impact of organizational structures on individual behavior and attributes, and the implications of various behavioral strategies adopted by individuals functioning within organizations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P5170 - Social Stratification And Social Practice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines social stratification as both an area of scientific inquiry and sociological practice. Course content covers the historical and cross-cultural variations in social stratification, systems of inequality, and the social policies associated with addressing inequality. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P5620 - Topics In Policy Analysis |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Graduate seminar in selected topic areas in sociology, focusing on the analysis of social policy within each area. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P5710 - Clinical Methods In Sociological Practice |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces the student to the range of methods and practices used in the field of clinical sociology, which focuses on the non-research roles of sociologists. Methods included in this course can be employed in work settings as consultants or staff. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P5760 - Graduate Seminar In Sociological Pedagogy |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Develop and refine personal teaching philosophy, learn the standards of good course development, explore learning styles, and examine best practices in course delivery. Exposure to the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P5780 - Mediation/Conflict Res |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores the nature of conflict in human social relations and strategies for conflict resolution. Students will learn and practice techniques for proactively and constructively dealing with interpersonal and intergroup conflict. Successful completion of course will enable student to be a certified community mediator in a variety of disputes. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P6500 - Statistical Techniques For Sociological Practice II |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed to be a continuation of the study of statistics as they are used by practitioners of social science. Explores intricacies of statistical procedures most likely to be needed by practitioners including factor analysis and index construction, measures of association, and simple and multiple regression. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC P6700 - Advanced Applied Resource Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed to provide greater depth of knowledge for topics discussed in P570 such as focus groups, case studies, survey research, needs assessment and outcome evaluations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC R1000 - Introduction To Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Consideration of basic sociological concepts, including some of the substantive concerns and findings of sociology, sources of data, and the nature of the sociological perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R1210 - Social Problems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected current "problems" of American society are analyzed through the use of basic sociological data and the application of major sociological frameworks. Policy implications are discussed in light of value choices involved in various solutions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R2200 - The Family |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The family as a major social institution and how it relates to the wider society. Formation of families through courtship, marriage, and sexual behavior; maintenance of families through childrearing and family interaction; and dissolution of families by divorce or death. Social change and the emergence of new familial patterns. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R2340 - Social Psychology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological approach to human character, with emphasis on the psychology of the individual in social situations. Topics include socialization and the self, language and communication, interpersonal relations, attitude formation, conformity and social influence, and group processes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R2400 - Deviance And Social Control |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to major sociological theories of deviance and social control, analyzes empirical work done in such areas as drug use, unconventional sexual behavior, family violence, and mental illness. Explores both "lay" and official responses to deviance, as well as cultural variability in responses to deviance. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R2850 - Aids And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a sociological perspective. Students will explore how social factors have shaped the course of the epidemic and the experience of HIV disease. The impact of the epidemic on health care, government, and other social institutions will also be discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R2950 - Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours 3.00. Exploration of a topic in sociology not covered by the regular curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. Topics to be announced. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Dept Credit, Lower Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC R3000 - Topics In Applied Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course shows the application of sociological theory and methods to topics of current interest. Topics include gambling, elder abuse, evaluation of anti-aids programs, etc. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R3120 - Sociology Of Religion |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of religion from the sociological perspective. Religious institutions, the dimensions of religious behavior, the measurement of religious behavior, and the relationship of religion to other institutions in society are examined. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3140 - Families And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The family is a major social institution, occupying a central place in people's lives. This course explores formation and dissolution of marriages, partnerships, families; challenges family members face, including communication and childrearing; reasons for and consequences of change in American families; how family patterns vary across and within social groups. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3150 - Sociology Of Power |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the nature and basis of political power on the macro level-the community, the national, and the international arenas. Study of formal and informal power structures and of the institutionalized and noninstitutionalized mechanisms of access to power. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis |
| SOC R3170 - Sociology Of Work |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of the meaning of work, the dynamic social processes within work organizations, and environmental constraints on organizational behavior. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3200 - Sexuality And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides a basic conceptual scheme for dealing with human sexuality in a sociological manner. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3210 - Women And Health |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A review of the relationships among cultural values, social structure, disease, and wellness, with special attention focused on the impact of gender role on symptomatology and access to health care. Selected contemporary health problem areas will be examined in depth. Alternative models of health care delivery will be identified and discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis |
| SOC R3250 - Gender And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A sociological examination of the roles of women and men in society, analysis of the determinants and consequences of these roles, and assessment of forces likely to bring about future change in these roles. Although focus will be on contemporary American society, cross-cultural variations in gender roles will also be noted. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3270 - Sociology Of Death And Dying |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines inevitable and salient features of the human condition. Historical evaluation of images and attitudes toward death, the medicalization of death, the human consequences of high-tech dying, the role of the family in caring for dying loved ones, the emergence and role of hospices, the social roles of funerals, grief and bereavement, euthanasia and suicide, the worlds of dying children and grieving parents, and genocide are major issues that are addressed. Two of the major themes of the course revolve around the idea that the way we die is a reflection of the way we live; and, that the study of dying and death is an important way of studying and affirming the value of life. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis New Albany |
| SOC R3290 - Urban Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The social dynamics of urbanization, urban social structure, and urban ecology. Theories of urban development; the city as a form of social organization; macroprocesses of urbanization both in the U.S. and other countries. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3300 - Community |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social, psychological, and structural features of community life. Topics include microphenomena such as the neighborhood, networks of friendship and oppositions, social participation, community power structure, and institutional framework. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R3330 - Sports And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will examine the importance sports and leisure activities play in society. From local examples such as Indiana motorsports and high school basketball, to international examples such as the Olympics and World Cup, we will examine sports from the perspective of athletes and fans, look at how sports as an increasingly important business, and discuss how sports have been a significant agent for social change (including Title Nine, and the integration of major league baseball).
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine, from a sociological perspective, the social, cultural, political, and psychological importance of sports and leisure activities. |
| SOC R3350 - Sociological Perspectives On The Life Course |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Focuses on the human life course as a product of social structure, culture, and history. Attention is given to life course contexts, transitions, and trajectories from youth to old age; work, family, and school influences; self-concept development, occupational attainment, and role acquisition over the life course. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3380 - Comparative Social Systems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. History and general theories of comparative sociology. Major focus on comparative analyses of social structure, kinship, policy and bureaucracy, economics and stratification, and institutionalized belief systems. Some attention is given to culture and personality and to cross-cultural methodology. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R3440 - Juvenile Delinquency And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Legal definition of delinquency, measurement and distribution of delinquency. Causal theories considered for empirical adequacy and policy implications. Procedures for processing juvenile offenders by police, courts, and prisons are examined. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3450 - Crime And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the creation, selection, and disposition of persons labeled criminal. Emphasis on crime as an expression of group conflict and interest. Critique of academic and popular theories of crime and punishment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3460 - Control Of Crime |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. History, objectives, and operation of the crime control system in relation to its sociopolitical context. Critical examination of philosophies of punishment and programs of rehabilitation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne IUPUI |
| SOC R3490 - Practicum In Victimology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The role of the victim in the criminal justice system is examined through both course work and practical experience as a volunteer with the Marion County Prosecutor's Witness-Victim Assistance Program. Recommended for students with interest in deviance, criminology, law, criminal justice, and social service. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R3510 - Social Science Research Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of methods and techniques used by sociologists and other social scientists for gathering and interpreting information about human social behavior. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3550 - Social Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers several traditions of classical, contemporary, and post-modern social thought e.g., social Darwinism, conflict theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, critical theory, and feminist theory. The social context, construction, and application theories are included.
. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3560 - Foundations Of Social Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the fundamental issues and perspectives in classical theories. Special focus will be on analysis of the major nineteenth-century theories that influenced later sociological thought. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3570 - Contemporary Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasis on theoretical developments of the twentieth century and the relationships of current theories to classical theories. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R3590 - Introduction To Sociological Statistics |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Measures of central tendency, dispersion, standardizing and normalizing procedures, and simple index numbers. Simple notions of probability as related to statistical inference (means, proportions, binomial distribution, chi-square, simple regression). Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Indianapolis |
| SOC R3810 - Social Factors in Health and Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the social aspects of health and illness, including variations in the social meanings of health and illness, the social epidemiology of disease, and the social dimensions of the illness experience.
. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R3820 - Social Organization Of Health Care |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys the nature of and recent changes in the health care delivery system in the United States. Patient and professional roles and the characteristics of different health care settings are explored. Current debates about the nature of the professions and professional work are emphasized. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne IUPUI |
| SOC R3850 - Aids And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a sociological perspective. Students will explore how social factors have shaped the course of the epidemic and the experiences of HIV disease. The impact of the epidemic on health care, government, and other social institutions will be discovered. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4100 - Alcohol, Drugs And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This is a survey of the use and abuse of alcohol, including extent of use, history of use and abuse, ''biology'' of alcohol, alcoholism as a problem, legal actions, and treatment strategies. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus |
| SOC R4150 - Sociology Of Disability |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of current models of disability and of disability at the interpersonal and societal level. Topics include recent legal, social, and educational changes; the ways in which people with disabilities interact with the nondisabled; the role played by relatives and caregivers; and the image of people with disabilities in film, television, and other media. Recommended for students in nursing, education, physical and occupational therapy, and social work, as well as for the medical sociology minor. Available for graduate credit. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis |
| SOC R4200 - Sociology Of Education |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of sociological approaches to the study of education, covering such major topics as education as a social institution, the school in society, the school of as a social system, and the sociology of learning. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4250 - Gender And Work |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the changing roles that women and men play in paid and unpaid work, and how these roles are socially constructed, through socialization practices, social interaction, and actions of social institutions. The interaction of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class on individuals' involvement in work will also be explored. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4300 - Families And Social Policy |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This seminar explores how the state and labor market currently affect family structure and the quality of family life in the U.S. and the role the state and labor market could play in the future. Family policies in other parts of the world will be considered for possible applicability to the U.S. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4610 - Race And Ethnic Relations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Comparative study of racial, ethnic, and religious relations. Focus on patterns of inclusion and exclusion of minority groups by majority groups. Discussion of theories of intergroup tensions-prejudice and discrimination-and of corresponding approaches to the reduction of tensions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC R4630 - Inequality And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Presentation of conservative and radical theories of class formation, consciousness, mobility, and class consequences. Relevance of social class to social structure and personality. Emphasis on the American class system, with some attention given to class systems in other societies. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4670 - Social Change |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic concepts, models, and individual theories of social change; historical and contemporary analysis of the structural and psychological ramifications of major social trends. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4760 - Social Movements |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the origins and dynamics of contemporary social movements in American society, with some attention to cross-national movements. Coverage of progressive and regressive movements aimed at changing the social, economic, and political structure of the society. Case studies of expressive and ideological movements, including fads, cults, and revolts and revolutions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4780 - Formal Organizations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological inquiry into the nature, origin, and functions of bureaucratic organizations. Emphasis on bureaucratic organizations as the predominant mode of contemporary task performance and on their social-psychological consequences. Theoretical and empirical considerations in organizational studies from Weber to contemporary findings. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4850 - Sociology Of Mental Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of current problems in psychiatric diagnosis, the social epidemiology of mental illness, institutional and informal caregiving, family burden, homelessness, and the development and impact of current mental health policy. Cross-cultural and historical materials, derived from the work of anthropologists and historians, are used throughout the course. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus |
| SOC R4900 - Survey Research Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. In this practicum, students will design and conduct a survey, learn how to code survey results, enter data, and analyze data with the mainframe computer. A report will also be written. The advantages and disadvantages of survey methodology will be highlighted and ethical issues will be discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R4940 - Internship Program In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. This course involves students working in organizations where they apply or gain practical insight into sociological concepts, theories, and knowledge. Students analyze their experiences through work logs, a paper, and regular meetings with the internship director. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Experiential Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Practicum, Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC R4950 - Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Exploration of a topic in sociology not covered by the regular curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. Topics to be announced. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Columbus |
| SOC R4970 - Individual Readings In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Investigation of a topic not covered in the regular curriculum that is of special interest to the student and that the student wishes to pursue in greater detail. Normally available only to majors through arrangement with a faculty member. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC R4980 - Sociology Capstone Seminar |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed to help graduating senior sociology majors to synthesize and demonstrate what they have learned in their major while readying themselves for a career and/or graduate study. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5150 - Sociology Of Health And Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys important areas of medical sociology, focusing on social factors influencing the distribution of disease, help-seeking, and health care. Topics covered include social epidemiology, the health care professions, socialization of providers, and issues of cost and cost containment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5170 - Sociology Of Work |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociology of work. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5510 - Quantitative Research Methods |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. P: graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course surveys the major techniques for investigating current sociological problems. It emphasizes the relationship between theory and practice in under-standing and conducting research. Although methods intended for rigorous hypothesis testing through quantitative analysis will be of major concern, the course will also examine issues in field research essential to a full understanding of a research problem. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5560 - Advanced Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This is the first part of a two-semester graduate course in contemporary sociological theory and theory construction. The first semester will involve the student in detailed study and analysis of sociologists belonging to the positivist tradition in sociology. Students will be expected to comprehend contemporary sociology in terms of its historical roots and to demonstrate their understanding of theory construction. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5590 - Intermediate Sociological Statistics |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic techniques for summarizing distributions, measuring interrelationships, controlling extraneous influences, and testing hypotheses are reviewed, as students become familiar with the computer system. Complex analytical techniques commonly applied in professional literature are examined in detail, including analysis of variance, path diagrams, factor analysis, and log-lineal models. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R5850 - Social Aspects of Mental Health and Mental Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This is a graduate-level course on the sociology of mental illness and mental health. Provides a thorough grounding in the research issues and traditions that have characterized scholarly inquiry into mental illness in the past. Students will become familiar with public policy as it has had an impact on the treatment of mental illness and on the mentally ill themselves. Typically offered Spring Summer Fall.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC R6970 - Individual Readings In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Investigation of a topic not covered in the regular curriculum that is of special interest to the student and that the student wishes to pursue in greater detail. Available only to sociology graduate students through arrangement with a faculty member. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI |
| SOC S1000 - Introduction to Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Can children ever become "normal" after long periods of isolation? When making decisions, are two or more heads really better than one? Would people like you and me electrocute a stranger? Why do men tend to invade women's personal space? Are some people "more equal" than others in the United States? Is racial hostility a thing of the past, or does it continue today? These are some of the questions we will attempt to tackle in Sociology 100. The substance of this course is broad and draws insights from other social sciences and humanities, most notably psychology, social psychology, political science, economics, and history. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S1010 - Social Problems and Policies |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to medical sociology. Health, illness, and medical care are important social issues. While the profession of medicine has at its disposal the most powerful technology ever known and the most generous financial support ever provided by the public sector, why has it failed to cure society?s ills? We will closely examine how social factors influence individual health and the quality of medical care. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S1250 - Introduction To Social Services |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An overview of social and human service agencies, their roles in the community, how they function, and the clients served. Emphasis on types of preparation needed for careers in these agencies and how applied sociology can assist agencies in their work. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IUPUI Kokomo |
| SOC S1610 - Principles Of Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Nature of interpersonal relationships, societies, groups, communities, and institutional areas such as the family, politics, education, the economy, and religion. Includes social process operating within these areas; significance for problems of social organization, social change, and social stratification. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S1630 - Social Problems |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Major social problems in areas such as the family, religion, economic order, crime, mental disorders, civil rights; racial, ethnic, and international tensions. Relation to structure and values of larger society. Although no prerequisite is required, it is strongly recommended that students have some previous social science course work and/or familiarity with basic sociological concepts and methodology. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division, GTC-Social-Behavioral, UC-Behavior/Social Science May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S1640 - Marital Relations And Sexuality |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of courtship, marriage and its alternatives, and the basic issues of human sexuality, with an emphasis on contemporary American society. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S2110 - Topics In Social Organization |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific topics to be announced, e.g., social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, politics, demography, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems, race and ethnic relation, rural sociology, urban sociology, and work reorganization. May be repeated; however, only 6 hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S2160 - Soc Of American Ethnic Diversity |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Themes discussed include Old World origins, current conditions, family, work, power, gender, and art. The approach is interdisciplinary. Readings are largely original accounts and include autobiographies, novels, and essays. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S2170 - Social Inequality |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. In this course we ask: Who gets what and why? How are power and privilege distributed among individuals and groups in society and why do some enjoy more than others? Who benefits from inequities? We examine how various inequalities (e.g., in income, wealth, property) have evolved over time, and ask how these inequalities shape the life chances of individuals in different socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender groups. Throughout the course we give particular attention to contemporary U.S.A. and to the challenges that recent developments pose for American society. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Richmond |
| SOC S2300 - Society And The Individual |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Personality and its development; relationship to culture and communication and to social settings; deviant types. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S2400 - Social Informatics |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to key social research perspectives and literatures on the use of information and communication technologies. Discusses current topics such as information ethics, relevant legal frameworks, popular and controversial uses of technology (for example, peer to-peer file sharing), digital divides, etc. Outlines research methodologies for social informatics. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: South Bend |
| SOC S2500 - Methods And Statistics I |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. First semester of a two-semester course integrating methods of research and statistical analysis. Includes logic of scientific inference, theory construction, research design, and data collection. Credit given for only one of the following: S250; Criminal Justice P291; Economics, E270, S270; or Mathematics K300. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S2950 - Selected Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific topics to be announced, e.g., Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Sociological Practice in the Community. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne New Albany Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S2980 - Colloquium In Sociology And Women's Studies |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Extensive analysis of selected topics in sociology from a women's studies perspective, e.g., sexism and men, family violence, rape. Specific topics to be announced. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Lower Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 1 times |
| SOC S3030 - Industrial Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Relationship of modern industrial organization and of labor and management organizations to political system, social class system, and other aspects of the society and community; formal and informal organizations within industry; inter-group conflict and processes of adjustment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3060 - Urban Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of cities and urbanization in the modern world; special consideration of ecological patterning, urban lifestyles, and urban problems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne South Bend |
| SOC S3080 - Introduction To Comparative Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social organization of modern societies. Distinctions and broad cross-cultural comparisons between Western and non-western social systems. Methods of cross-cultural analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Richmond |
| SOC S3090 - The Community |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological definitions of community; theories of community and community organization; social, political and economic factors that contribute to community organization and disorganization; alternative models of community development and planning. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3130 - Religion And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Considers the functions and dysfunctions of religion generally, its economic and cultural patterns, religious group evolutions (cults, churches, sects, denominations), leadership deviance, and conversion/faith maintenance. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3140 - Social Aspects Of Health And Medicine |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Group characteristics in the causation, amelioration, and prevention of mental and physical illness, and the social influences in medical education, medical practice, and hospital administration. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne South Bend |
| SOC S3150 - Work and Occupations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Treats work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3160 - The Family |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Cross-cultural perspectives on family systems; structure and process of the conjugal family in modern and emerging societies. Focus on relationships of the family to other subsystems of the larger society and on interaction within the family in connection with these interrelationships. Emphasis on development of systematic theory. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3170 - Social Stratification |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Nature, functioning, and maintenance of systems of social stratification in local communities and societies. Correlates and consequences of social class position and vertical mobility. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne South Bend |
| SOC S3180 - Social Change |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to theoretical and empirical studies of social change. Explores issues such as modernization; rationalization; demography, economic and religious causes of change; reform and revolution. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3200 - Deviant Behavior And Social Control |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of deviance in relation to formal and informal social processes. Emphasis on deviance and respectability as functions of social reactions, characteristics of rules, and power and conflict. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3210 - Variations In Human Sexuality |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological examination of patterns and variations in several dimensions of human sexuality; sexual definitions, incidence of various behaviors, intensity of sexual response, sexual object choice, and other modes of sexual expression. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3240 - Social Aspects Of Mental Illness |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social factors in mental illnesses; incidence and prevalence by social and cultural categories; variations in societal reaction; social organizations of treatment organizations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3250 - Criminology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the patterns of crime, strategies for control, and theories of crime causation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3280 - Juvenile Delinquency |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the patterns of juvenile delinquency, strategies for control, and theories of juvenile delinquency causation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3310 - Sociology Of Aging |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social aspects of aging and older adulthood. Topics include myths about aging, the processes of aging; sexual behavior, social relationships, family relationships, religious activities, and leisure of the elderly.
. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S3350 - Racial And Ethnic Relations |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of racial and ethnic groups and relations in the United States and worldwide, focusing on identity, interaction, conflict, and social stratification. Approved as an American Culture II requirement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3380 - Sociology Of Gender Roles |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Exploration of the properties, correlates, and consequences of gender roles in contemporary societies. Emphasis on defining gender roles, tracing their historical development, considering their implication for work, marriage and fertility, with cross-cultural comparisons. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3400 - Social Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological theory, with focus on content, form, and historical development. Relationships among theories, data, and sociological explanation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Kokomo Richmond |
| SOC S3480 - Introduction To Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Sociological theory beginning with Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. Theorists and their works considered from the standpoint of basic issues in sociological thinking. Emphasis on convergences of separate streams of thought. Approved by Arts and Sciences for the Western tradition culture studies requirement. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne South Bend |
| SOC S3490 - Topics In Contemporary Sociological Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. An in-depth analysis of one or two key areas or trends in contemporary sociology. Examples include American theory, deconstruction, critical theory, feminist theory, hermeneutics, neo-Marxism, post modernism. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S3510 - Social Statistics |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, regression, correlation, analysis of variance, and crosstabulation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S3600 - Topics In Social Policy |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific topics to be announced, e.g., environmental affairs, urban problems, poverty, population problems. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S3610 - Cities And Suburbs |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to theory and research on the changing scale and complexity of social organization (urbanization), the quality of life in urban areas, demographic and ecological city growth patterns, and public policy concerns in contemporary urban society. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: New Albany |
| SOC S3620 - World Societies And Cultures |
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Credit Hours: 3.00 to 6.00. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. An analysis of the social, cultural, political, and historical foundations of societies and cultures from around the world. Can be conducted in the field or on campus. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S3750 - Issues In Human And Social Service Policy |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will help prepare students to work in human and social service agencies by examining sociological and human/social service literature regarding the oversight, management, and day to day practices encountered. Students will examine theories in social sciences relevant to human services delivery. Students will learn about ethical and professional issues of workers in human/social service agencies with clients from diverse populations. Students will examine sociological concepts, theories, and methods as they apply to the management, practice, and evaluation of human/social service agencies. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Kokomo |
| SOC S3950 - Selected Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4030 - Industry, Labor And Community |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Interdependence of business, labor and community; how industry shapes the community; community and union-management relations. Role of business and labor in community power structure. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4050 - Selected Social Institutions |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of one or more institutional areas, e.g., religion, education, the military. May be taken more than once with instructor’s permission. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: New Albany Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S4070 - Society Of The Future |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of social, cultural and technological trends in the modern world. Creation of the society of the future through class discussions and game playing. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4100 - Advanced Topics In Social Organization |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced course in social organizations, allowing for a more thorough coverage of selected topics, e.g. social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, politics, demographics, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems, race and ethnic relations, rural sociology, urban sociology, and work reorganization. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor.
. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Richmond South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 2 times |
| SOC S4150 - Sociology Of Education |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The role of educational institutions in modern industrialized societies, with emphasis on the functions of such institutions for the selection, socialization, and certification of individuals for adult social roles. Also covers recent educational reform movements and the implications of current social policies on education. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4190 - Social Movements And Collective Action |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Change-oriented social and political collective action and consequences for groups and societies. Resource mobilization, historical and comparative analysis of contemporary movements, and collective action. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Kokomo New Albany |
| SOC S4200 - Advanced Topics In Deviance |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced course in deviance, allowing for a more thorough coverage of selected topics, e.g., crime, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, corrections, mental illness, sexual deviance, drug use, and violence. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Columbus Indianapolis Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 2 times |
| SOC S4250 - Violence And Society |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Considers violence in society: its origins, forms, and consequences. Aspects of violence considered include biological, psychological, social, and cultural. Forms examined include revolution, terrorism, family violence, religious conflict, and mobs/riots. Purpose of the course is to help the student better understand the role played by violence in modern society. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4290 - Crime And Community |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the ways social, political and economic factors contribute to community disorganization and the role this disorganization plays in the generation of crime. The course will also investigate, compare, and develop ways in which the community can be organized to prevent and/or control crime. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4300 - Environmental Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces students to diverse sociological understandings of how social organizations impact environments, and how environments impact social environments. Topics covered include how interest groups mobilize resources to pursue an agenda of societal protection or restoration, how demographics, belief systems and patterns of social organization break down or pollute the environment, environmental racism, North South tensions over population and consumption, development and limits to growth. Globalization and social change toward sustainability will be explored in relation to planetary boundaries. Typically offered Spring.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Learning Outcomes: 1. Appreciate and utilize a broad array of diverse perspectives that explore how culture and various social institutions impact the environment and vice versa. 2. Critically appraise demographic and social information and data and acquaints students with important processes associated with the co-evolution of societies and their environments. |
| SOC S4310 - Topics In Social Psychology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific topics to be announced, e.g., socialization, self-concept development, small group structures and processes, interpersonal relations, language and human behavior, attitude formation and change, collective behavior, public opinion, inter-group relations. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements to the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne New Albany Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S4400 - History Of Social Thought |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Social theories from the Greeks to the close of 19th century, with emphasis on relation of social thought to social forces. Approved by Arts and Sciences for the Cultural Studies (Western Tradition) requirement. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4410 - Topics In Social Theory |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Specific topics to be announced, e.g., structuralism, evolutionary theory, symbolic interaction theory, functionalism, social action theory, exchange theory, history and development of social theory, sociology of knowledge. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirements of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne New Albany Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S4470 - Theories Of Social Change |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Idea of progress; linear philosophy of history; social and cultural evolution; contemporary theories. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4480 - Sociology Of Marx |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of Marx's writings with emphasis on their implications for sociological theory and the analysis of society. Marx's work will be viewed as a synthesis of English political economy, French socialism, and German philosophy. Application of a Marxian sociology to a contemporary society. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne |
| SOC S4600 - Topics In Non-Western Cultures |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This variable topics course will analyze different aspects of non-western cultures. It will be organized as a seminar and require significant writing and research. The readings will expose students to different theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. Topics will be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S4680 - Research Problems In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An independent research project formulated and conducted in consultation with a faculty sponsor, culminating in an analytical paper. May be repeated for credit, up to a maximum of 9 credit hours, although only 3 credit hours may be applied to a major or a minor in sociology. This course cannot substitute for the 400-level seminars required of majors and minors. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated up to 2 times |
| SOC S4940 - Field Experience In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Faculty-directed study of aspects of sociology based on field experience in conjunction with directed readings and report writings. Students are trained in using their sociology understanding and skills in working at diagnosing and developing research projects and/or social change interventions for social organizations in the community.
Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Kokomo Richmond South Bend |
| SOC S4950 - Individual Readings In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individualized approach to selected topics through the use of guided reading, research and critical evaluation. Prior arrangement required; conducted under the supervision of a member of the sociology faculty. May be repeated; however, only six hours may be applied to the requirement of the sociology major or minor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Kokomo New Albany Richmond South Bend Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S4990 - Honors Seminar |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC S5600 - Topics In Sociology |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Laboratory, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: IU Fort Wayne IUPUI Repeatable for Additional Credit: Yes - May be repeated an unlimited number of times |
| SOC W1000 - Gender Studies |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys the field of Gender Studies, looking at the role that gender plays in people’s life experiences and their interactions with social institutions. Topics of gender’s interactions with class, race, sexual orientation, age, international issues, and ethnicity will also be explored. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Department: IUPUI Courses-IUPUI Course Attributes: Lower Division, Variable Title May be offered at any of the following campuses: New Albany |
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