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2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Academic departments and programs are generally listed in alphabetical order. All courses are listed under the department or program in which they are offered. Courses which are cross-listed will appear in more than one place.
Course Designations
Courses of instruction are designated by a system of four-digit numbers within each department. The first digit in the number indicates the class standing that a student must attain to be eligible for the course. To interpret the numbering system, students need to know that:
- Courses generally for freshmen are numbered in the series beginning 1000. Freshmen may not register for any course numbered 2000 or above, except by placement or with the permission of the instructor. Similarly, sophomores may not register for courses numbered 3000 or above, or juniors 4000 or above, with exceptions permitted only by the instructor.
- Cross-listed courses are courses appropriate to more than one department or area.
- The number of credit hours per course is indicated below the course title. Courses which may be taken for variable credit (applied music lessons, independent studies, internships, etc.) or which can be repeated for credit are so indicated.
- Prerequisites for each course are so indicated following the description.
- Special Topics, Internships, and Independent Studies courses are listed with numbers separated by semicolons. These courses may be taken in any order.
- The (FR) designation after a number indicates that the course is offered only as a first-year seminar.
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PSY 3202 - Behavior Modification Credits: 4
An introduction to the discipline of Applied Behavior Analysis, which uses operant and Pavlovian conditioning to change human behavior. Topics discussed will include reinforcement, punishment, extinction, stimulus control, discrimination, and generalization. Students will design and implement a behavior change project in which they will use the concepts of behavior analysis to improve the behavior of a person or animal.
Prerequisites Psychology 2201, or permission of instructor.
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PSY 3210 - Human Memory Credits: 4.00
This 3000-level course will expand upon the introduction to the human memory system covered as part of Cognitive Psychology (PSY 2215). Specifically, more detailed evaluations of human memory theory will be covered, with special emphasis on both basic and applied research. Topics discussed will include short-term and long term memory, memory and aging, eyewitness memory, and prospective memory.
Prerequisites Psychology 2215
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PSY 3212 - Psychology of Gender Credits: 4
This course offers an examination of the psychological and behavioral differences between men and women. The origin of gender differences will be addressed from biological, developmental, and social psychological perspectives. This class will use psychological research and theory to examine how gender differences affect the functioning of men and women in work, relationships, health, etc. Emphasis will be placed on understanding gender as a social psychological construct.
Prerequisites Psychology 2204 or 2209
Cross-listed with Interdisciplinary Studies 2212.
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PSY 3218 - Hormones and Behavior Credits: 4
In this course, we will examine relationships between the brain, the endocrine system, and behavior. The first section of the course will focus on the effects of hormones on development and differentiation of the brain. The second half of the course will concentrate on some of the processes/behaviors mediated and/or influenced by hormones, such as, reproductive, parental, and aggressive behavior as well as motivation, cognition, biological rhythms, and stress responses. We will also discuss environmental and experiential influences on hormone production. The course will focus primarily on hormone-brain-behavior relations in non-human animals but humans will also be considered when the appropriate data are available.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Psychology 1106 and 2214
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PSY 3306 - Adolescent Development Credits: 4
An in-depth study of development during adolescence, including biological, cognitive, and social transitions. Students will examine how changes in the adolescent’s environment (e.g., school, family, peer groups, and culture) intersect with individual advances (e.g., identity, autonomy, intimacy, and moral development). Special attention will be given to current research on adolescence and application of research to promote adolescents’ psychological well being.
Prerequisites Psychology 2209
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PSY 3308 - Adulthood and Aging Credits: 4
Psychological and personality changes from young adulthood through old age; adult socialization and the age status system; changing concomitants of family relationships, employment, leisure, and retirement; health issues, psychopathology, and death.
Prerequisites Psychology 1106.
Cross-listed with Sociology 3308.
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PSY 3365 - Special Topics in Psychology Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interest and needs.
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PSY 3395 - Internships in Psychology Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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PSY 3398 - Independent Studies in Psychology Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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PSY 4465 - Special Topics in Psychology Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interest and needs.
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PSY 4492 - Capstone in Psychology Credits: 4
An advanced study of a specific topic or overarching theme in psychology. Emphasis will be on discussion and analysis of original literature, psychological theory, and research.
Capstone seminars will be offered each spring semester.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Psychology 2224 and Psychology 3200
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PSY 4495 - Internships in Psychology Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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PSY 4498 - Independent Studies in Psychology Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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PSY 4499 - Independent Capstone Study in Psychology Credits: 0-4
No Course Description Provided
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REL 1104 - Introduction to Religious Studies Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of religions at the undergraduate level. The course focuses on how religious studies differs from theology, fundamental terms and categories within religious studies, basic approaches and methods in studying of religions, and classic problems, theories, and figures in the field. The course requires no prior background in the study of religion.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 1105 - Religions:An Overview Credits: 4.00
A survey of the religions of the world, giving special attention to the Abrahamic religions
(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and the major traditions of Asia (Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism,
Confucianism, and Shinto). Students will be exposed to the basics of history, beliefs,
practices, moral teachings, and contemporary issues, including the place each religion in the
United States. During the course of the semester they will also be expected to visit a religious
institution different from their own.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwester, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2204 - Sex, Gender, and Religion Credits: 4
This course explores how gender and sexualities are constructed, practiced, and experienced in various religions and by different religious actors. It examines how religion can be a means to subvert dominant gender paradigms as well as how it can silence and marginalize those who do not conform to them.
The course pays special attention to the role religion plays in the construction of identity and the creation and maintenance of cultural practices and norms. It aims to help students advance their understanding of how gender functions in the organization of belief-systems through a close reading of primary sources. The course will also compare historical interpretations of gender and sexuality and the lived experiences of religious people in the past and today.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2208 - African American Religious History Credits: 4
This course examines the religious history of people of African descent in the American colonies and states. It will focus on the variety and diversity of these religions, and especially between ones transplanted from Africa, those imposed by whites, and religious groups that developed indigenously, noting strands of resemblance and hybridity. It will explore how religion has shaped black communities and identities in the context of white hegemony and how religion has played a pivotal role for African-American strategies of resistance, liberation, and/or assimilation.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2209 - Catholicsm in the Americas Credits: 4
This course will examine the diverse transnational dynamics within the life of the Roman Catholic Church in the Americas. It will study the development of varied indigenous Catholic traditions and communities and their engagement with colonial history primarily from the sixteenth century to the present. By examining both secondary and primary sources we will focus on people’s lived experience as they shaped and were shaped by the traditions of the church in South, Central, and North America.
McDaniel Plan: Interntaional Western, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2210 - Jesus at the Movies Credits: 4
An academic examination of the manner in which filmmakers both portray the story of Jesus in film and use, consciously and unconsciously, motifs and themes from the Jesus story in other films.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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REL 2211 - Issues of Social Justice Credits: 4
A comparative philosophical and religious exploration of theories of justice and specific moral issues. Issues discussed include gender and racial equality, economic welfare, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, and animal rights.
Cross-listed with Philosophy 2211.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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REL 2217 - U.S. Religious History Credits: 4
US Religious History is a historical analysis of the practices and beliefs of various religious individuals and communities who have shaped and been shaped by North American culture. Through case studies and close reading of primary sources, students will become familiar with the lived practice of religion from the colonial period to the present.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2218 - Introduction to Judaism Credits: 4
This course will focus on Judaism and its 3,500-year heritage of ethical monotheism. It examines the religion’s narrative core and phases of development, focusing on how it adapted over millennia to maintain its broader cultural relevance despite its smaller number of adherents. Religious concepts and beliefs, primary and interpretive texts, cycles of observances, ritual practices, conceptions of time and space, symbols, values, and Judaism’s wider impact are covered. Contemporary varieties of Judaism, and in particular the faith’s American Jewish context, are also analyzed.
International Western, Textual Analysis
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REL 2220 - Asian Religions in America Credits: 4
An examination of the practice of Asian religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Sikh faith, in North America. The course considers both people of Asian ancestry and people of non-Asian ancestry who have converted?or whose ancestors converted?to Asian religions. Topics include the history of Asian religions in America, their legal and social marginalization, and their present organization, beliefs, and practices.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 2222 - Hinduism Credits: 4
An examination of Hinduism in history, its philosophies and mythologies, ritual practices, social structures, and ethics as well as of Hinduism in the United States. The course includes visits to Hindu institutions in the surrounding area.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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REL 2224 - Buddhism Credits: 4
An examination of the history of Buddhism, the practices, teachings, and forms of organization of its three major traditions – Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana – and the development of Buddhism in the United States. The course includes visits to Buddhist institutions in the surrounding area.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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REL 2233 - Early Christianities Credits: 4
This course examines Christianity from a nonsectarian, historical perspective from the first through the eleventh century. We will approach “Christianity” as both a global religious system and as a set of diverse “Christianities” throughout its history.
McDaniel Plan: Social Cultural and Historical
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REL 2234 - History of Christianity II Credits: 4
This course examines Christianity from a nonsectarian, historical perspective from the eleventh century to the present. We will approach “Christianity” as both a global religious system and as a set of diverse “Christianities” throughout its history.
McDaniel Plan: Social Cultural and Historical
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REL 2240 - Religion and Critical Thought Credits: 4
A critical engagement with major theories and methods in the study of religions. Equal attention is given to both historical-hermeneutical and ethical-critical approaches.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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REL 2245 - Myths and Rituals of Aging Credits: 4
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REL 2265 - Special Topics In Religious Studies Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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REL 2295 - Internships in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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REL 2298 - Independent Studies in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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REL 3200 - Writing in Philosophy and Religious Studies Credits: 4
Focused, direct instruction in the writing skills necessary for successful research papers in Philosophy and Religious Studies. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students interests and needs.
McDaniel Plan: Departmental Writing
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REL 3307 - Sacred Texts of South Asia Credits: 4
An examination of major South Asian religious texts. The selection of texts varies from semester to semester but may include ritual texts (e.g., the gveda), narrative texts (e.g., the R?m?ya!a, the Mah?bh?rata), reflective texts (e.g., the Upani%ads), and devotional texts (e.g., the poetry of the Alvars, Nayanars, Kab?r or M?r?b??). Although primarily focused on Hindu texts, the course will also include texts from other South Asian traditions, such as ancient Buddhism, Jainism, or the Sikh faith.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 3308 - African Christianities Credits: 4
This course will examine the variety of African Christianities in both their global and local contexts. We will look at how Christianity in Africa has influenced and been influenced by Christianity world-wide, and also ask how indigenous and Muslim traditions – each equally varied - have played a role in its development. Students will learn to problematize, to complicate, and to relentlessly question prevailing religious and cultural ideas about the other, where those ideas originate, how they are constructed and maintained, and who that maintenance and construction serves
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwester, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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REL 3310 - Religion, Cognitive Sci, and Neuroscience Credits: 4
An examination of recent work in the cognitive scientific and neurophysiological study of religion. This course will acquaint students with the growing body of theoretical and empirical work in an emerging field within religious studies.
One tendency of this work has been to suggest that religion is somehow built in to the structure of the human brain and so, despite predictions of secularization, human beings will remain religious. Students will be expected to assess this and other claims.
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REL 3365 - Special Topics In Religious Studies Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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REL 3395 - Internships in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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REL 3398 - Independent Studies in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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REL 4465 - Special Topics In Religious Studies Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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REL 4492 - Senior Thesis Credits: 4
A seminar required of all Religious Studies majors as part of their graduation requirements. Each student is required to write a major paper on a topic within the major. A member of the Department supervises the project.
(Capstone)
Prerequisites Permission of instructor.
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REL 4495 - Internships in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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REL 4498 - Independent Studies in Religious Studies Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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SIS 2001 - Propaganda
Propaganda comprises persuasion without the conscious participation of the audience. This course examines ways in which writers, media producers, architects, politicians, etc., incorporate propaganda into their products. Issues related to dissemination of propaganda, such as censorship, will be covered.
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SIS 2002 - The Natural and Social Science of Aging
This course is designed to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the field of Gerontology, which is the study of aging. The structure of this SIS will illustrate to students the relevance of this field to a variety of majors and career options (e.g., biology and medicine, political science with policy formation and elder law, psychology with mental health; sociology with support systems and global aspects of aging, business with travel, entertainment, exercise with promotion of healthy aging, physical therapy, etc).
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SIS 2003 - Controversies in Science and Society
How have scientific issues of the past impacted our present? How can what happened between Galileo, his science and the church still be a hot topic today? How might science help all of us to understand what we have done to our environment? How can one board of education make a decision that can affect an entire nation’s science curriculum? How might one professional board’s decision affect how we humans view each other? In this course we will simulate three historical scientific events and read original texts to understand scientific issues that are still at the center of divisions between people today. Students will take historical roles and debate critical concepts while gaining an active appreciation of what science is and is not. This course represents an opportunity to examine controversies from multiple perspectives and different disciplines.
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SIS 2004 - Katrinaville: A Tale of Two Cities
This course interfaces ethnography, urban studies, and musicology in the treatment of tricentennial New Orleans. Three initial units present an historical overview with contemporary issues and the ruling oppositions and unities presented by artistic cultures, race, ethnicity, religion, geography, and political history. A final unit treats post-Katrina recovery with updates from the three disciplines. Students will engage in readings and discussions, give two reports, attend lectures, access documentaries and web materials, and complete a semester-long research project on the Creole city on a topic of their choice integrating two or more of the disciplines of musicology, urban studies, and ethnography.
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SIS 2005 - September 11th and Its Aftermath
Why did the events of September 11th happen? How has the world changed in its aftermath? How has the event been remembered and memorialized? How have domestic and global politics changed in its wake? How have artists and writers represented this event and shaped our understanding of it? This interdisciplinary seminar will critically analyze the events surrounding September 11th in an attempt to understand this seminal event in United States history.
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SIS 2006 - Southern Appalachia: Literature, Music and the Environment
From Johnny Cash and the Carter family to Alison Krause and the Dixie Chicks, from the novel Bastard Out of Carolina to the Academy Award Winning O Brother Where Art Thou? to visits to the mountains themselves – through a multidisciplinary lens, this course will explore the music, literature and environment of the Southern Appalachians in an attempt to dispel “hillbilly” myths and reveal the richness of the culture and landscape. Students will examine the music that came out of the mountain hollers to worldwide renown. They will hear the voices of Appalachian people in regional literature – short stories, poems and memoir – and in documentaries and feature length film. And they will encounter the beauty of the world’s oldest mountains and conversely the devastating impact of coal mining – from the local acidification of Appalachian watersheds to the toxic contamination of air streams that traverse the earth to its impact on global warming.
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SIS 2007 - Madness, Genius, and Creativity Credits: 4
This course examines the relationship between psychopathology, genius and creativity. After considering the current scientific literature on these topics, students will explore them through the lenses of various disciplines, such as history, art, music, literature and biochemistry. Famous examples - biographical, literary and creative will be studied in detail.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2008 - Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Science Fiction Credits: 4
This course examines the relationship between psychopathology, genius and creativity. After considering the current scientific literature on these topics, students will explore them through the lenses of various disciplines, such as history, art, music, literature and biochemistry. Famous examples - biographical, literary and creative will be studied in detail.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Laboratory, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2009 - Fears and Fascinations in Nineteenth-Century Europe Credits: 4
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” Charles Dickens’ rueful appreciation expresses the superlative contradictions and rapid societal changes in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and colonialism in 19th century Europe. Vast accumulations of wealth, grand developments of the metropolis and the allure of exotic travel and luxury items could be found next to horrific living conditions in sooty cities filled with crime, prostitution, addiction and epidemics. How did people experience these vibrant varieties and deep discrepancies? What literary works and philosophical theories marked and expressed these experiences? How did they view and construct their own identities and that of the Other in this turbulent century?
Following these questions, this course is designed from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and knowledge contents leading into the intellectual and artistic circles in Europe and “the Orient.” Topics discussed will include the conceptualizations of progress, Darwinism, Nihilism, Impressionism, Orientalism and their impact on identity formations. Authors studied will include Darwin, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Zola, Marx, Dickens et. al.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies, Textual Analysis
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SIS 2010 - South Park and Contemporary Social Issues Credits: 4
Over 12 seasons and more than 180 episodes, the cartoon show South Park has never avoided discussing controversial contemporary social issues. Often controversial itself, South Park uses humor to explore issues such as immigration, gay marriage, terrorism, and hundreds more. This course is an interdisciplinary approach towards extending and deepening the discussions already present in the show. Using historical and contemporary texts, theories, and concepts from sociology and philosophy, this course will address issues such as race, gender, sexuality, consumerism, and many more. Ultimately, students will gain a deeper understanding of how to analyze and critically think through the very real social problems addressed by the television show as well as gain new knowledge of the benefits of applying an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary social issues.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2011 - Nanotechnology Credits: 4.0
Imagine a machine that can fit onto the cross-section of a piece of hair. This may sound like science fiction but is actually a major goal of the emerging field of nanotechnology. Such small machines could potentially be put on spacecraft and sent to the farthest reaches of our solar system or used in humans to cure cancer. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basics aspects of the exciting and revolutionary new field of nanotechnology. Basic concepts from chemistry, biology, and physics will be introduced as needed to understand the tools used to create and study machines and structures on this very small scale. The course will then focus on selected technologies of commercial interest (e.g. carbon nanotubes, nanoelectronics, nanobiometrics). The impact of this new technology on society will be highlighted by examining the role of nanotechnology in art, the impact of quantum computing on computer security, business and economic implications, and the potential effects of these new materials on the environment.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies; Scientific Inquiry with Laboratory
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SIS 2012 - Alcohol, Sprits, Muses, and Demons Credits: 4.0
Throughout history alcoholic beverages have played important roles in the lives of peoples around the world. This course will examine the different values and meanings global cultures have assigned to alcohol consumption. We will analyze relevant political, cultural, economic and metaphysical questions and histories as well as issues related to power and cross-cultural encounters. Our study of attitudes and beliefs will also include the construction of alcohol consumption as enabling essential human powers of expressivity, memory and group identity.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies.
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SIS 2013 - Feminist Methodologies Credits: 4.0
Since the seventies, feminist theory has attempted to explain the conditions under which women’s lives are lived. Feminist theory is now a vast collection of diverse global perspectives on historical and cultural daily practices and experiences. This course will bring together faculty from a range of disciplines (including classical studies, English literature, history, political science, psychology, science, sociology and social work,) who will discuss the implications of feminist theory in their own field or their own scholarly work. The emphasis will be on the application of theory. Through discussions with participants and selected readings, students will explore important theories and theorists, and consider the value and limitations in this new construction of knowledge.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2014 - History and Memory Credits: 4.0
In recent years the concept of memory has emerged as an important topic of historical scholarship. How people as a nation (collective memory) or individuals remember their past, even when that memory is not flawless, can be telling both in terms of individual identity, national consciousness, and the writing of history. This is particularly crucial with regard to the memory and commemoration of war and other forms of conflict, and this course will include works on the two world wars and the Holocaust. The course will begin with an overview of the recent “memory boom” in historical studies, as well as review different approaches to memory taken by scholars from a range of disciplines including psychology and sociology. We will then examine specific examples of “memory” scholarship: historical sites (monuments, commemorations, etc.), social spaces, and the various languages in which memory is expressed in memoirs, oral history, and film.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2015 - Once Upon a Time:Folk and Fairy Tales around the World Credits: 4.0
Once upon a time … For centuries folk and fairy tales have fueled the popular imagination of people of all ages around the world. The course provides an in-depth analysis of folk and fairy tale traditions. We will read, discuss and analyze folk and fairy tales from around the world, as well films and modern folktale adaptations (film, music, art). In the course, folk and fairy tales will be illuminated from different perspectives, including formalist (structure and style), feminist, religious, sociological and psychoanalytic approaches.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies; Textual Analysis
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SIS 2016 - The Arts and Cultures of Islam Credits: 4.0
This course examines the developments in the arts, religion, history, language, music, politics, and even the cuisines of the large geographical areas once or still dominated by Islam. These areas include Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, and other regions as well. Such a broad survey is intended to promote both an understanding and appreciation of the Islamic faith as well as the ways in which these beliefs are expressed through the aforementioned fields of study.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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SIS 2017 - Asian Puppetry Credits: 4.00
Puppetry in Asia is traditionally an important theatrical genre that has held tremendous impact on live types of musical theater. In this class, we will examine the main forms of Asian Puppetry from the inside out, and from the outside in. We will make glove puppets and shadow puppets, stage plays, and explore the creative processes. We will study both the traditional and modern contexts of puppet theater, analyzing the shows, their history and meaning, as well as their connections to their greater social and political environments. Throughout this course, we will explore both the fantastically fun and dramatically serious sides of Asian Puppetry.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression, International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understaning, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2018 - HBO’s “The Wire”: Through a Cinematic and Social Lens Credits: 4.00
Too often the stories we watch on television or in the movie theater are disconnected from the actual, real-life implications and consequences of the worlds they portray. Full of genre conventions, stereotypes, and easy narrative solutions – and packed with commercial messages and wrapped up in under an hour or two – these cinematic documents evaporate quickly from the minds of the audience as it moves on to consume other formulaic media McNuggets. But HBO’S series “The Wire” (June 2002-March 2008) warrants closer scrutiny. Its complex, genre-bending film narrative and oft-brooding aesthetic lingers long after the screen has grown dark and invites us to examine the relationship between story and reality. In this course, we closely analyze how this landmark television series is constructed (both in form and narrative) as well as what it has to say about enduring social structures (policing, the legal system, commerce, city politics, education, and the media) and social problems (substance abuse, human trafficking, urban poverty, political corruption, educational disparities).
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2019 - Happiness Credits: 4.00
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to issues related to the study of happiness. Students will develop an understanding of the ways in which scientists define and measure happiness, with a focus on research from psychology and behavioral economics. Empirical data relating to the experience, prevalence, and malleability of happiness will be examined. In addition, perspectives from fields such theology and philosophy will be discussed.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Scientific Inquiry, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2020 - Gender Roles in the Economy Credits: 4.00
Explores the gender dimensions of economic life, including the different roles of women and men in the community, the market, and within the household, and how these are affected by economic and social change. Topics of study will include: Human capital, the household (including: allocation of resources, divorce, bargaining, and time-use in paid and unpaid work), labor force activity (including participation, earnings, discrimination, and occupational choice), poverty and development issues in emerging economies.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2021 - Sushi, Samurai, and Anime: Living Japanese Culture Credits: 4.00
What is unique about Japanese culture? How do Japanese arts connect to Japanese society? In this class we will study Japan?s history and traditions from its origin stories through contemporary popular culture, in order to understand the country’s cultural essence.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2022 - Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Oppression and Liberation in the African Diaspora Credits: 4.00
“Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Oppression and Liberation in the African Diaspora” describes the central roles of these commodities in the development of the global economy, which have often fed human impulses for pleasure and greed resulting in the oppression
of peoples in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America. This course will entail an interdisciplinary examination of the political, historical and social forces shaping the relationships between colonizers and the colonized, industry and
consumers, managers and workers, and governments and citizens. Students will define the concepts of African diaspora and pan-Africanism using the basic tools of political science with contributions from literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology
and history. The course will be taught in a seminar style with the expectation that all students will contribute to the course.
McDaniel Plan: International nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2023 - Living in the Margins
Although numerous laws have been passed to end discrimination, the beliefs that support prejudice remain powerful. The law can impose consequences for discriminatory practices, but it cannot regulate the human emotions supporting stereotypes and driving prejudice. This course investigates the psychological causes behind stereotypes and discrimination, as well as the psychological, social, and economic effects of being discriminated against. The course will focus primarily on gender, race, and sexuality through the methodologies central to social psychology, literary analysis, and critical race studies. Other methodologies may include gender studies, sociology, economics, music, social work, and law.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2028 - Nature of Health and Illness Credits: 4.00
The course examines the field of health and illness from an interdisciplinary approach. Through lectures, class discussion and experiential exercises, students will explore the ways that health and illness can be conceptualized. These terms will be examined from a bio-physical standpoint as well as cultural, psychological and spiritual dimensions with particular emphasis placed on the implications when there is a conflict between these ideas. This class is appropriate for students with an interest in health-care related fields as well as affiliated social sciences.
McDaniel Plan: Internatioanl Nonwestern, Sophomore Interdiscplinary Studies
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SIS 2210 - Music, Mind, and Brain Credits: 4
An exploration of how the brain processes musical experience. After a review of the elements of music and the structure/function of the nervous system, students will examine how concepts such as musical training and style correlate with brain function, how the brain responds to emotional content in music, and how music impacts hemispheric laterality. Special topics, such as creativity, the Mozart effect and the relationship between musical genius and creativity will be examined. The course includes a laboratory, using tools such as EEG, EMG, GSR, EKG, skin temperature readings and pulse rate.
Prerequisites Psychology 1106 and Music 1134 or permission of instructor
Cross-listed with Music 2210 and Psychology 2210
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2215 - The Arab World Credits: 4
Since 9/11 many people have lamented the lack of knowledge students and other people have about the outside world, especially the Middle East, the Arab and Muslim cultures. In ancient times, the present Middle East was the “cradle of civilization” and the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. What is the Arab World today? It is an unknown and misunderstood world in turmoil.
This course will offer an introduction to and an overview of the history, culture, politics and current events of the Arab world in the Middle East and Africa. The students will also be introduced to Islam, the dominant religion of the region, the various contributions of Arabs and Muslims to world civilization in various areas and disciplines, i.e. art and music, physics and astronomy, medicine and mathematics, literature and philosophy, the Islamic legacy of Spain, the Arab-American community and its contribution to culture and politics in the United States. One integral part of the class is a weekly discussion of current events in the Arab World, i.e. the situation in Iraq, US policy toward the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the US war on terrorism.
International Nonwestern, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2216 - The Hero’s Journey Credits: 4.0
This course will explore the journey as a metaphor for life development as viewed through the ideas of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. We will explore great journeys in art, poetry, literature, religion and music applying psychological analysis to the perspectives of the original discipline. Texts will include Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce’s Ulysses, Hesse’s Siddhartha, Wagner’s Siegfried, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Baum’s Wizard of Oz, Rowling’s Harry Potter, Lucas’s Star Wars and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2223 - Cultural History of Latin America Credits: 4
The course provides an overview of the history of Latin American from the 19th century independence struggles to the counterrevolutions of the 1980s and 1990s. Topics include the histories of countries from Mexico to Chile and the role of the US government in the development of modern Latin America. Historical and contemporary culture of Latin America.
This course is taught in English.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2224 - Drama Therapy Credits: 4.00
Drama Therapy is a group process emphasizing play, spontaneity, embodiment, relatedness and role flexibility. This course will use experiential ways of learning both the theory and processes of drama therapy. Drama therapy techniques can be used to work with groups in clinical, educational, corporate and social service settings. The course is especially useful for (1) theatre arts students who are interested in applying their skills to “real world” situations, and (2) for social work, psychology, education, communication or business students who wish to learn embodied, spontaneous ways to approach group process and conflict.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2225 - Rap and Society Credits: 4.00
Where does rap come from and where is it going? Does it create problems in society or reflect them? Does it empower people or objectify them? In this course we will study rap from its origins in New York City to its presence all over the world today by listening to its music and poetry, as well as reading what cultural critics and supporters have to say about it. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining the fields of Music, Sociology, and Political Science, we will examine what Rap says and what it means to, and in, society today.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression, Multicultural, Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2226 - The Postmodern Generation Credits: 4.00
During the past several decades, intellectuals have proclaimed the end of the “modern” era, and the advent of a “postmodern” society driven by radically different ideas about the nature of self, knowledge, and reality. What is this postmodern condition and how are our everyday lives shaped by it? This course explores the web of connected shifts recently occurring in art, literature, communication, philosophy, psychology and religion.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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sis 2231 - Justice, Fairness & the Law Credits: 4.00
How do we respond to situations of injustice in our ever-changing, violent, and volatile world? How do laws respond, protect and inhibit demands for justice? How do players in our criminal justice system perceive their roles and how do they attempt to create a more just society? Themes of justice and fairness, individual rights and claims of community, equality and inequality as well as morality and law will be studied through theories articulated by John Locke,
Robert Nozick, John Rawls and Richard Posner and applied to debates and policies in current US culture.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2235 - Tracing Your Past Credits: 4.00
What do you know about your family’s history? Why should you care? Well, you carry your ancestors’ genes, and they determine the physical you. You have a cultural heritage, and that influences the social you. This course will help you discover your family history, and show you how to preserve it for future generations. As an example of cultural history, we will focus upon the history of local African American families and communities, tracing the journey from slavery to freedom, an important theme in this course. This study will involve fieldwork documenting a 19th Century African American cemetery and tracing the family lines of individuals resting therein. After participating in this course, you will know more about an important part of our nation’s history, and have a better appreciation of how you became the person you are today
Note: Students may not receive credit for this course if they have previously taken the Jan Term course IDS 1155 Roots: Discovering your Past, and vice versa.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SIS 2238 - The Cinema of Art Credits: 4.00
This interdisciplinary course examines films about the creation, cataloguing, and business of art, featuring a variety of historical periods and artists. Students explore techniques for analyzing creative artifacts – from cave painting to sculpture – then screen films that are thematically linked to them. Through the lens of art history and cinematic analysis, students discuss how the films are faithful to, inspired by, or deviate from the antecedent work, and how film ultimately shapes our understanding of that work. This course also includes a weekly, evening three-hour film viewing session.
McDaniel Plan: Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies
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SLM 3317 - Children’s Literature Credits: 4
This course presents outstanding literature for children in grades kindergarten through sixth. Topics include authors and illustrators, fiction and nonfiction, principles of selection, and using literature in the classroom. Students read books, discuss them in class, identify strategies for encouraging students to read, and create an annotated bibliography of books appropriate for elementary school students.
Prerequisites Education 1111 or Education 1141or permission of instructor.
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SLM 3318 - Young Adult Literature Credits: 4
This course presents outstanding literature for young adults in grades sixth through twelfth. Topics include authors, fiction and nonfiction, and using literature in the classroom. Students read books, discuss them in class, identify strategies for encouraging students to read, create an annotated bibliography of books appropriate for middle and high school students, and present book talks with teens.
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SOC 1104 - Introduction to Sociology: A Global Perspective Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of the discipline of sociology from a global perspective, focusing particularly on cross-cultural examples of social, economic and political relationships. It explores how social forces impact the structure of society and its social institutions as well as cultural patterns, groups, personality, and human interactions.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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SOC 1108 - Cultural Anthropology
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SOC 1141 - Images of Women in Law Enforcement
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SOC 1142 - Globtrotting: China Credits: 2
This course will examine the society and music in the target country and explore the connections between musical expression and the culture it occurs in.
Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate.
By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
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SOC 1192 - Corrections Facilities
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SOC 2201 - Society and the Individual Credits: 4
This course examines the ways in which social life contributes to the development of individual individual behavior, ideology, and life chances in society. This encompasses issues regarding how individual thoughts and emotions influence social interaction, and how that interaction is shaped and constrained by social structure.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
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SOC 2205 - Criminology Credits: 4
A study of the theoretical aspects of criminal behavior and crime causation; the measurement of crime and crime statistics as well as techniques of crime prevention and societal reaction to crime.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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SOC 2214 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment Credits: 4
An examination of human behavior throughout the life cycle. The course emphasizes the biopsycho- socio-cultural perspective in its exploration of functional and dysfunctional patterns of coping and adaptation. Various theoretical perspectives are introduced to explain human development.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
Cross-listed with Social Work 2214.
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SOC 2215 - Growing up in Gaza Credits: 4.00
This course will explore how young men and women are coming of age in the contentious and highly politicized Gaza Strip. We will examine the social forces that influence youth in this part of the world in the context of a variety of
perspectives including globalization, feminism, class stratification, and colonialism. We will also explore how the Gaza Strip is connected to broader social conflicts and perspectives, particularly those involving Western nations. No
background of the region will be assumed or expected, but students enrolled in this class will be expected to follow the news related to the Gaza Strip and its surrounding areas on a daily basis.
Prerequisites SOC 1104
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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SOC 2225 - Aging: The Individual and Society Credits: 4
An examination of the social processes encountered in adulthood and old age, using a biopsycho- socio-cultural perspective. Included will be a discussion of theories and research, which explores the phenomenon of aging from an individual and societal perspective. Topics include productivity and social participation, cohort and intergenerational relationships, networks and social support, environment, and economic status. Discussions will consider the effects of ageism on the individual, and policy considerations.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104, or permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed with Social Work 2225.
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SOC 2231 - Love and Marriage:A Cross-Cultural Comparison Credits: 4
This course will primarily study the diversity of love, marriage and families across cultures and over time from a Sociological perspective. Using a multinational and multicultural approach, the course will examine intimate relationships in Western and non-Western cultures on global, national and regional levels in order to appreciate diverse cultures and learn that an understanding of human relationships requires sensitivity to the role of culture and socio-economic context. As such, special emphasis will be placed on topics related to: love, forming relationships, mate selection, dating, marriage, non-marital lifestyles, divorce, remarriage and families over time. The course will also examine love and marriage in contemporary American society and the intersection of marriages and families with other social institutions such as politics, religion, race, class, and gender in shaping personal and family experiences.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Sociology 1103 or 1104
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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SOC 2265 - Special Topics in Sociology Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104 or permission of the instructor.
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SOC 2295 - Internships in Sociology Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104 and permission of the instructor.
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SOC 2298 - Independent Studies in Sociology Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
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SOC 2306 - Practical Applications in Law Enforcement Credits: 4
An overview of law enforcement components including a review of the English roots of America’s system, the historical development of modern law enforcement and correctional organizations, an analysis of these criminal justice components from an organizational behavior perspective, and an analysis of current challenges facing them. While corrections and courts will be covered, the focus of the class will be on law enforcement agencies. Students will conduct an in-depth study of a law enforcement agency.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
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SOC 2307 - Beyond the 9 to 5: Work in the 24/7 Global Economy Credits: 4
A look into the sociological study of work and occupations in the new 24/7 global economy, especially the analysis of the meaning of work, the role of large corporations, and the rampant growth of mass consumerism (the “work-andspend cycle”). Students will examine work patterns over time, the complications of balancing work and family life, and the effects of technological innovation on the nature of work. We will also consider the class, race, and gender variations in work populations and settings as well as variations in the types of work people do.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
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SOC 2410 - Work and Occupations
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SOC 2412 - Wealth, Power, and Prestige in American Society Credits: 4
A survey of classical and contemporary theories and research on the development and consequences of class inequality in American society. Topics include status, social class, social mobility, class conflict, and income distribution.
Prerequisites Sociology 1104.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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