2020-2021 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Psychology |
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PY 402 - Independent Study in Psychology II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of PY 401 . May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 401 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PY 404 - Ethics in Psychology (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to professional and scientific ethics in the field of psychology. Ethical principles and standards are covered as they relate to a wide variety of contemporary issues in the field. Case studies are presented emphasizing critical thinking skills. Seminar format. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior psychology majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 410 - Contemporary Issues in Psychology (3.00 cr.)
A dialectical approach to controversial issues in psychology, including the etiology of sexual orientation, the false memory debate, and the effects of divorce on children. Emphasizes critical thinking and persuasive skills.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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PY 413 - Psychological Tests and Measurements (3.00 cr.)
A study of the rationale, theory and standardization of individual and group psychological tests. Test theory, construction and validation are studied and applied to testing in areas of intelligence, aptitude and personality. Diagnostic features of individual tests are emphasized. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior psychology majors. Closed to students entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 414 - Advanced Statistics with Computer Applications (3.00 cr.)
Students are taught to use a statistical software program (SPSS). Students learn to organize basic psychological data for statistical analysis and execute various statistical procedures (e.g., descriptive statistics and inferential statistics). Survey data are collected and analyzed via the techniques learned. Previous computer experience not required. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 292 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 415 - Psychological Systems and Theories (3.00 cr.)
An historical approach to contemporary psychological thought. Explores the nature of scientific psychology. Covers major schools of psychological thinking in the areas of sensation, perception, learning, thinking, emotion, motivation, personality, and psychological measurement. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior psychology majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 418 - Research Seminar in Psychology I (3.00 cr.)
An intensive exploration of a selected topic in psychology through a review of the literature and/or research using a small group seminar approach. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Prerequisites may vary according to topic. May not be taken concurrently with PY 300 , PY 400 , PY 419 , or different PY 418 topic without instructor permission. Fulfills Group I requirement. May be repeated once for credit with different topic.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PY 419 - Research Seminar in Psychology II (3.00 cr.)
Individual research guidance in selected areas. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. May not be taken concurrently with PY 300 , PY 400 , PY 418 , or different PY 419 topic without instructor permission. Fulfills Group I requirement. May be repeated for credit four times with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 418 of same topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PY 420 - Applied Special Topics in Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Advanced study in an applied area of psychology. Topic varies by semester and/or year. Fulfills Group I requirement. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 421 - Forensic Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Designed to give students an overview of major topics in forensic and legal psychology, while exploring similarities and differences between the two disciplines. Students examine the law and legal processes through the use of psychological research and theory. Topics include eyewitness identification, interrogations, juries, criminal behavior, the insanity defense, profiling, and punishment. Fulfills Group VI requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Closed to students entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PY 422 - Special Topics in Learning, Cognition, and Behavioral Neuroscience (3.00 cr.)
Advanced study in learning, cognition, and/or behavioral neuroscience. Topic varies by semester and/or year. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 ; BL 105 or BL 121 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 423 - Special Topics in Developmental Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Advanced topics in developmental psychology. Topic varies by semester and/or year. May be repeated four times for degree credit.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PY 424 - Special Topics in Social and Personality Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Advanced topics in social and personality psychology. Topic varies by semester and/or year. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 425 - Special Topics in Clinical, Counseling, and Health Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Advanced topics in clinical, counseling, and health psychology. Topics vary by semester and/or year. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 426 - Special Topics in Information and Quantitative Literacy (3.00 cr.)
Advanced topics in information and quantitative literacy. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 , PY 292 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 427 - Special Topics in Diversity, Ethics, & Justice in Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Advanced study in diversity, ethics, and justice in psychology. Topic varies by semester and/or year. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 430 - Childhood Psychopathology (3.00 cr.)
Seeks to familiarize students with different diagnoses, etiologies, and treatments of major forms of child and adolescent psychopathology. The course uses the current version of the DSM classification system and emphasizes the role developmental issues, context, and current research findings have in understanding psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PY 435 - Field Experience in Psychology I (3.00 cr.)
By special arrangement with an individual and a selected agency, the student will engage in a supervised experience designed to develop psychological skills in a practical setting. Written or electronic permission of the director of undergraduate field education. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior psychology majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PY 436 - Field Experience in Psychology II (3.00 cr.)
By special arrangement with an individual and a selected agency, the student engages in a supervised experience designed to develop psychological skills in a practical setting. Written or electronic permission of the director of undergraduate field education. Fulfills Group I requirement.
Prerequisite: PY 435 .
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior psychology majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PY 445 - Aging and Society (3.00 cr.)
Examines psychological aspects of aging as well as the age-related social policy and cultural influences, focusing on both intra-individual and social aspects of aging.
Prerequisite: PY 101 .
Restrictions: Open to psychology majors entering Fall 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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BH 197 - Sellinger Scholar Experience (1.00 cr.)
Offers students the opportunity to participate in professional and social activities designed to enrich the academic experience and expose students to local business leaders. These activities take place on campus and in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Sellinger scholar students must enroll in this course in the fall and spring of their sophomore year unless they are on approved leave from the University. For nondegree credit.
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 198 - Sellinger Scholar Seminar (1.00 cr.)
Offers students the opportunity to participate in professional and social activities designed to enrich the academic experience, develop practical skills, foster community engagement, and expose students to local business leaders. These activities take place on campus and in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Sellinger scholar students must enroll in this course in the fall and spring of their junior year and senior year, unless they are on approved leave from the University or studying abroad. For nondegree credit.
Restrictions: Restricted to junior and senior Sellinger Scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 200 - Financial Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on introducing financial accounting which provides information for decision makers outside the entity primarily by means of general-purpose financial statements. Students acquire a basic knowledge of the language of business. Topics include the application of accounting theory and generally accepted accounting principles to business transactions encountered by corporations during the accounting cycle. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills AC 201 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
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BH 201 - Management (3.00 cr.)
The purpose of this course is to develop knowledge and skills in the management of organizational behavior (OB). The course focuses on how organizations create value through people by fostering employee performance, commitment, and well-being. Topics include individual characteristics such as personality and ability, motivational characteristics such as job attitudes, stress, motivation, relationships, and learning, organizational characteristics such as power, leadership, teamwork, and organizational culture. The learning method is experiential with a focus on lectures, self and team assessments, cases, class discussions, exercises and simulations, and team projects. Sellinger Scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills MG 201 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 202 - Managerial Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Introduces managerial accounting for internal decision makers. Students learn how to prepare and use financial information primarily for internal decision- making purposes. Topics include accounting for manufacturing, job order cost systems, incremental analysis, standard costs, budgeting, and the statement of cash flows. Sellinger Scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills AC 202 course requirement.
Prerequisite: AC 201 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 240 - Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Students acquire an understanding of marketing's role in helping an organization create value. Students learn to identify the elements of the marketing mix, recognize how these elements can be integrated to achieve organizational objectives, and describe a product's marketing plan. Topics include market research, consumer behavior, market segmentation, targeting, positioning, and the marketing mix-product, promotion, pricing, and distribution. This class typically involves working in teams to complete a team project. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills MK 240 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 251 - Data Analytics and Information Systems (3.00 cr.)
Students examine the strategic role of information systems in organizations and the integration of data analytics into business activities enabling quality, timeliness, and competitive advantage. They are immersed in the collection, exploration, visualization, and application of data to make informed business decisions. Students apply database, spreadsheet, and visualization skills to solve real world business challenges. Students develop a real-world data visualization project relatable to a business application of real world data. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Recommended completion during sophomore year. Fulfills IS 251 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IDS
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BH 260 - Supply Chain and Operations Management (3.00 cr.)
Operations management develops the processes by which organizations create value. Students develop an overview of the planning and operation of systems to convert resources to goods and services. Topics include operations strategy, design of processes, product and process quality, global competition and supply chain issues, productivity of operating systems, impact on societal and physical environment, and both qualitative and quantitative methods to improve decision making. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fullfills OM 260 course requirement.
Prerequisite: MA 151 or MA 251 or equivalent, EC 102 , EC 220 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): IS 251 or BH 251 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger Scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 282 - Global Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Examines the social, political, and economic contexts that influence global businesses and explores how global businesses address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by globalization. Students develop the analytical skills to assess cultural differences between U.S. and non-U.S. businesses, and identify tensions, interests, and responsibilities among global stakeholders, institutions, and public policy. The learning method can involve reflection papers, case analysis, current event analysis, team-work, and class discussion. This course may be designated as a service-learning course and works with a Baltimore organization to obtain hands-on experience. Sellinger Scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills IB 282 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
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BH 305 - Legal Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Examines the legal environment of business activity. Students learn to explain basic legal terms, articulate legal rights and requirements in the managerial setting, identify how a particular legal issue fits into the legal system and how law develops and changes, and discuss managing an organization's legal matters, including ethical use of the law. Topics include classifications and sources of law, dispute resolution, agency, business associations, corporate governance, contracts, torts, product liability, securities, equal employment opportunity, and intellectual property. Writing intensive (e.g., Dreamland Project, white collar crime) with undergraduate research project (e.g., industry research on legal and regulatory environment in specific industries). Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills LW 305 course requirement.
Prerequisite: 60 credits.
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 320 - Financial Management (3.00 cr.)
Studies the theory and practice of financial analysis and management in the corporate setting and its role in the larger economic environment. Students discuss what specific assets a firm should acquire, what total volume of funds should commit, and how the required funds of the firm should be financed. Topics include time value of money, risk and return relationships, fundamental valuation theories, financial markets, capital investment decisions, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and international finance. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills FI 320 course requirement.
Prerequisite: AC 201 , EC 102 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): EC 220 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, junior, or senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 330 - Operations Management (3.00 cr.)
Develops the processes by which organizations create value. Students develop an overview of the planning and operation of systems using resources to convert raw materials, components, etc. to goods and services consumed by end customers. Topics include operations strategy, design of processes, product and process quality, global competition and supply chain issues, productivity of operating systems, impact on societal and physical environment, and both qualitative and quantitative methods to improve decision making. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills OM 330 course requirement.
Prerequisite: EC 102 , EC 220 ; IS 251 or BH 251 ; MA 151 or MA 251 or equivalent.
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 402 - Strategic Management (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the student to the discipline that sets organizational direction and drives executive decisions. Effective organizations proactively work to achieve competitive advantage. They formulate, implement, and evaluate strategic plans. Organizations strive to develop direction based upon an understanding of their internal and external environments, integrating functional skills and processes. This course is writing and research intensive and the learning method is an action learning, in the form of a strategic company analysis project and/or case method. Sellinger scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills MG 402 course requirement.
Prerequisite: BH 201 and BH 282 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 260 , BH 305 , BH 320 .
Restrictions: Restricted to senior accounting or business administration Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 403 - Sellinger Scholar Consulting Practicum (3.00 cr.)
Aims to develop students' abilities to diagnose complex business problems, formulate strategic solutions, and provide consultation to organizations. Students examine how businesses create economic value by developing meaningful synergies within and across groups, divisions, hierarchies, and other organizations. Topics include the consulting process, international business, leadership, organizational effectiveness, and sustainable development. The learning method is primarily case-based with a focus on integrative case studies, and readings used throughout, culminating in an internal case competition that may be judged by faculty and local professionals, to prepare students to engage in and manage such processes in their careers. Fulfills MG 407 course requirement.
Prerequisite: MG 201 or BH 201 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger Scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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BH 406 - Commercial Law (3.00 cr.)
Examines the legal aspects of a commercial transaction. Students learn to explain the nature of a commercial transaction including formulating a contract for the sale of goods, paying for the goods, and financing the transactions. Topics include contract law, the uniform commercial code (sale of goods, negotiable instructions, secured transactions, bank collections and deposits), surety, and bankruptcy. Sellinger Scholars are expected to undertake additional reading and prepare research in consultation with the instructor. Fulfills LW 406 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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Sociology |
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SC 101 - Self and Society (3.00 cr.)
A microsociological view of the relationship between the person and the social world. The underlying theoretical assumption is that we construct our social reality through the process of social interaction. Through this interaction we learn the roles, norms, and values of our society-we learn to be social beings.
Restrictions: Restricted to freshmen, sophomores, and sociology majors or minors (fall/spring only).
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO
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SC 102 - Societies and Institutions (3.00 cr.)
A macrosociological view of major types of societies that have existed in the past or exist currently. Students are exposed to the major patterns, causes, and consequences of social change in societies and institutions through comparative sociology.
Restrictions: Restricted to freshmen, sophomores, global studies majors, and sociology majors/minors (fall/spring only).
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 103 - American Society (3.00 cr.)
Examines social and economic changes in American society, focusing on the period since World War II. Changes and experiences are compared by class, gender, race, and geography. Special emphasis on the implications of changing society for today's young adults. Topics include occupational prospects, residential patterns, social problems, political behavior, and the role of public policy in changing society.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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SC 104 - Cultural Anthropology (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to anthropology through the study of diverse past and present cultures: hunting and gathering, horticultural, agrarian, industrial, and contemporary global culture patterns. Examines various anthropological approaches to understanding human behavior, and highlights the insights other cultures offer about our own culture.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IES
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SC 105 - Education in U.S. Society (3.00 cr.)
Examines the impact of social context (family, community, school system) and social location (ethnicity/race, gender, social class) on education in the urban United States. Students are encouraged to reflect critically on topics such as the dynamics of race, class, and gender in education; the impact of cultural/social capital on educational outcomes; and the changing roles of private and parochial education.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 106 - Health and Society (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to macro-, micro-, and mesosociology with particular emphasis on the social causes, social distribution, and social responses to health/illness. Topics include cultural conceptions of disease and its treatment (including roles and norms); the consequences of social inequality (especially race/ethnicity, class, and gender); and the social organization of care. Historical-evolutionary and cross-national comparisons supplement a primary focus on the contemporary situation in the United States.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 107 - Social Problems (3.00 cr.)
Studies common social problems using sociological, theoretical, and conceptual frameworks. Individual deviance, patterns of social injustice, specific problems affecting major U.S. institutions, and international issues are investigated. Various mechanisms and resources for solving and preventing social problems are explored. Formerly SC 205. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IU
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SC 204 - The Family (3.00 cr.)
An overview of the family institution. Examines the family from both a cross-cultural and an historical perspective. Special emphasis on the American family. Topics include mate selection, sex roles, love, sexuality, family roles and relationships, parenthood, conflict and divorce.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG/IU
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SC 210 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (3.00 cr.)
A broad overview of the role of gender in society. An interdisciplinary approach-ranging across history, psychology, art, economics, literature, philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, and anthropology-is used to address questions such as: How does biology contribute to gender differences? What role does culture play in the construction of gender? A unifying course theme is the myriad of ways gender, race/ethnicity, and social class intersect. Although the main focus is on the sex/gender system of contemporary U.S. society, cross-cultural and historical perspectives are incorporated. Required for gender and sexuality studies minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG
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SC 214 - Introduction to Social Work (3.00 cr.)
Objectives are to understand the concept of human services; to know the fields of practice in which human services are delivered; to understand the social worker's role in the service delivery system; to be exposed to problems experienced by people and the issues addressed by social service workers; and to understand the concepts of social work practice with individuals, groups, and communities.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 221 - Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender (3.00 cr.)
The social construction and intersection of race, social class, and gender is examined. Particular attention is paid to privilege, economics, historical and legal contexts, and systems that act to perpetuate these categories.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 224 - Sociology of Religion (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the sociological study of religion. The field of sociology provides a distinctive manner by which religion can be understood to interact with both people and the wider environment. Specifically, sociology provides useful language, methods, ways of thinking, and other tools for describing, understanding, and explaining the nature and function of religion in relation to the increasingly interconnected world in which we live. The presentation of theoretical, methodological, and empirical treatment of religion's role and influence on the personal, cultural, social, and political spheres is also examined.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 101 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 260 - Introduction to Criminal Justice (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the structure and operation of the criminal justice system in the United States. Attention is focused on the individual and institutional level. Topics include criminal law, the police, the judicial system, victimology, and corrections.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 266 - Sociology of Cinema: Sex, Violence, and Identity (3.00 cr.)
Explores the many ways films have represented, reproduced, and challenged social conventions by contextualizing current sociological developments in cinema with topics such as feminism, masculinity, conflict, poverty, and globalization. This course enhances students' understanding of culture, media, and sociology through the examination of classical, contemporary, and independent films of various genres.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 276 - Human Health and the Environment (3.00 cr.)
What does Lyme disease have to do with climate change? Why did children lose millions of IQ points to leaded gasoline and paint? Why do so many children in Baltimore have asthma? Answers may be found in this exploration of the bidirectional relationship between our health and the health of our homes, communities, food, air, waterways and climate. Study of toxicology, risk assessment, prevention, environmental justice, history, and policy provide framework for understanding effects of environmental exposures. Examples of how major exposures such as air toxins are managed in Baltimore and Maryland lend context and relevance to class discussions. Finally, examples of environmental impacts on children, the most vulnerable population group emphasize a major course theme: a multidisciplinary approach is necessary to guarantee the health of future generations and the planet. Same course as BL 276 .
Prerequisite: BL 111 or BL 201 or CH 114 , or written permission of the environmental and sustainability studies minor director.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IES
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SC 309 - Child Welfare (3.00 cr.)
Exploration of issues related to the child welfare (social service) system which responds to children who have service needs as a result of a dysfunctional family or from experiencing traumatic events in their childhood. Issues addressed include child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, impact of chemical dependent or mentally ill caretakers on childhood development, impact of family violence on childhood development, and teen suicide. Highlights the role of the social worker and response by child welfare agencies and the juvenile court for each topic discussed.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 330 - Forensics (3.00 cr.)
Forensic sociology examines the use of sociological data and its interpretation in decisions made by the agencies of the criminal justice system. Topics considered include racial profiling, family violence, the insanity defense, serial killing, mass murder, and criminal profiling.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 331 - Deviance and Social Control (3.00 cr.)
An examination of the relationship between deviance and social control, including how and why certain forms of behavior come to be defined as deviant, the nature of formal and informal response to deviance, and the interaction of different social control institutions. An overview of general theories of deviance and the particular forms it takes, with special attention to issues that cut across the whole range of deviance.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IU
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SC 332 - The Sociology of Crime and Criminals (3.00 cr.)
An historical and contemporary overview of the nature of crime and the causes of criminal behavior. Examination of the measurement of crime and crime trends.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IU
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SC 333 - Juvenile Delinquency (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the field of juvenile delinquency. Covers the history of juvenile crime and its treatment, major developments in the law, trends in youth crime and victimization, theories of causation and the current status of treatment programs.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IU
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SC 334 - Sociology of Policing (3.00 cr.)
Examines the historical beginnings, structure, and nature of police work; police models, roles, and functions of policing in modern society. This examination includes controversies, misconduct, developments, and reform. Provides an overview of how policing impacts society, and how changes in society impact policing.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 339 - Conflict, War, and Peace (3.00 cr.)
The end of the Cold War has not put an end to either war or violent conflicts within society. Students increase their understanding of the conditions under which social conflicts tend to become violent and how these conflicts can be resolved nonviolently. A highlight around which much of the course is built is SIMSOC, a game simulation of society.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 340 - Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (3.00 cr.)
This is a reading and writing intensive course in gender and/or sexuality studies. As a "special topics" course, content and instructors vary. Students should focus on the subtitle of the course in any given term to get a better idea of the topics to be covered. Students are encouraged to contact the listed professor or the department chair for clarification. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: SC 210 .
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomore, juniors, seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 341 - Independent Study in Gender and Sexuality Studies (3.00 cr.)
Gender Studies minors may arrange to do independent study with a member of the Committee on Gender Studies or another approved instructor. Written or electronic permission of the Gender Studies coordinator. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: SC 210 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 342 - Social Research Methods (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the logic, ethics, and techniques of social research. Students learn research design, sampling, and measurement. Tasks include a review of literature on a specific research topic.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Recommended Prerequisite: ST 110 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SC 347 - Special Topics in Criminology (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on a specific issue, or issues, in the field of criminology. May be repeated for credit three times with different topics.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 349 - Special Topics in Sociology (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on a specific topic in sociology. May be repeated twice for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: SC 101 .
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 355 - Sociological Theory (3.00 cr.)
An overview of classical, modern, and contemporary theories. Classical theory stresses the contributions of scholars whose work most strongly influenced modern theory. Modern theory includes functionalism, varieties of Marxian theory, symbolic interactionist theories, and various middle-range theories. Contemporary theory includes feminist theory, postmodern social theory, globalization theory, and others.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SC 360 - Critical Analysis of Criminal Justice Outcomes (3.00 cr.)
Explores sources of inequity in the U.S. criminal justice process, focusing on court-related processes, bail, arraignment, plea bargaining, trial, and sentencing decisions. Students develop understanding through reading empirical research and exploration of alternative justice systems.
Prerequisite: SC 101 or SC 260 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 361 - Social Inequality (3.00 cr.)
Examines economic, political, gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the United States. Extensive descriptive materials are presented on various systems of social inequality, and the major theoretical and ideological perspectives on inequality are considered.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG/IU
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SC 362 - Global Inequalities (3.00 cr.)
Examines patterns of economic, political, and social inequality within and among the world's societies. Topics include theories of economic development and underdevelopment; origins of dictatorship and democracy; racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities; consequences of globalization for patterns of inequality; and anti-globalization movements.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 363 - Special Topics in Global Studies (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on a topical area of global studies from a sociological perspective; e.g., democratization, immigration. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 365 - Neighborhood and Community in Urban America (3.00 cr.)
Examines the social aspects of urban life in modern America. Topics include patterns of city growth; the loss of traditional community; the growth of the underclass; social disorder; economics; and the welfare state. Special emphasis is given to the social organization within the community (e.g., neighborhood associations, faith congregations, business and political coalitions, and interpersonal networks).
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF/IU
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SC 366 - Sociology of Sexuality (3.00 cr.)
A sociological perspective is used to examine human sexuality, focusing on how sexuality reflects the societies in which we live. Although it is often assumed that sexual attitudes and behaviors are biologically based, they are strongly shaped by society. This course examines the history of sexuality in Western society, the acquisition of sexuality, and alternative forms of sexuality.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sociology majors/minors, gender studies minors, and psychology majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 368 - Masculinities (3.00 cr.)
Critiques of masculinity barrage us with the notion that men are dangerous and distressed; yet, men's experiences are various, ranging from powerful and confident to marginal and frightened. This course examines the many ways men live, how literature describes them, and how scholars interpret them. Feminist, multicultural, and transnational perspectives are utilized.
Prerequisite: One SC 100-level or SC 200-level course or one PY 100-level or PY 200-level course.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 210 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 369 - Mining the Gap: Determinants of Educational Outcomes (3.00 cr.)
Using the lens of Critical Race Theory, this course examines the influence of "color-blind" educational models on racial achievement gaps. Using local, state, and national level data, students interrogate the role of educational policies and practices in the production and reproduction of educational inequalities on the bases of race, class, gender, special education, and immigration status.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 102 , ST 110 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 371 - Sociology of Serial and Mass Murder (3.00 cr.)
Sociologically analyzes typologies, theories, patterns, and motives of serial and mass murder. Cross-cultural comparisons are made, myths versus facts are addressed, and data is analyzed to view the known and predicted occurrences of these crimes. At the end of the course students are able to distinguish between serial and mass murder, separate fact from fiction, analyze crime patterns, and apply a sociological lens to the perceived motives for serial and mass murder.
Prerequisite: SC 260 or SC 332 or SC 333 or written permission from the instructor.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 , SC 103 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 373 - Sociology of Human Rights (3.00 cr.)
Human rights are approached from a comparative historical and interdisciplinary perspective. Students learn about foundational notions of human rights as they are interpreted in accordance with various belief systems and secular humanist philosophy; the UN-based human rights regime; and a number of contemporary challenges to the protection of human rights in the global era.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 374 - Sociology of Development (3.00 cr.)
The topics of political and economic development are approached from a comparative historical perspective. Students learn about the history of modern development practices; the postulates and assumptions of various theories of development; and the various criticisms/critiques of development in regard to European colonialism, Cold War geopolitics, and contemporary global integration and backlashes.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 376 - Israel-Palestine: Conflict Narratives, Media Framing, and Peace-Building (3.00 cr.)
Focused on Israel-Palestine, this course deepens students' understanding of the dynamics of deep-rooted conflict; the role of media in maintaining conflict; the challenges posed by conflicting narratives; and the social, psychological, and structural processes inherent in peace-building.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 377 - Social Movements and Social Protest (3.00 cr.)
Explores national and transnational efforts by organized civil society groups to bring about social and political change. Emphasis is on learning about the grievances, goals, tactics, and achievements of a wide range of social movements. Students examine additional movements through term paper projects. Required readings draw on scholarly analyses and first-hand accounts; video materials vividly portray social movement participants and their actions.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 378 - Islamic Social Movements (3.00 cr.)
A survey of the historical development of Islam as a world systemic force and its interaction with other world systemic forces, namely: secularism, liberalism, the nation-state, democracy, and globalization. Students learn about the civilization and faith of Islam; the often stated, and more often misunderstood, "Islamic Revival" observable around the world; and key intellectuals, social movement leaders, politicians, teachers, lawyers, students, business people, farmers, and workers in the world today who employ similar Islamic categories to engage in a variety of social and political projects.
Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 379 - Israel-Palestine: Roots of the Conflict and Prospects for Peace (3.00 cr.)
Explores the roots and evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the competing historical narratives, the critical issues in the conflict, and the prospects for peace. Current local and international responses to the conflict are highlighted with particular attention given to civil society efforts for peace in Israel-Palestine.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 383 - Survey Design and Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Students learn how to use quantitative data to answer questions about the social environment. Familiarizes students with computer applications and presents the logic underlying the analysis of survey data. Skills involve working with existing data sets in the conceptualization and examination of causal relationships. Report writing is an additional component of the coursework.
Prerequisite: EC 220 or ST 110 or ST 265 or written permission of the instructor; SC 342 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 384 - Qualitative Sociological Inquiry (3.00 cr.)
Examines the ways sociologists use qualitative methods to develop and evaluate research. Students learn principles of sociological reasoning and research, including the relationship between theory and methods. Students pursue independent research project to produce a paper and presentation.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 342 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 398 - Independent Study I (3.00 cr.)
An independent study guided by the instructor. Topics vary. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Closed to students who have taken SC 399 . May be repeated once for credit with different topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 399 - Independent Study II (3.00 cr.)
An independent study guided by the instructor. A continuation of SC 398 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Closed to students who have repeated SC 398 .
Prerequisite: SC 398 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 401 - Sociology Practicum and Seminar (4.00 cr.)
Students develop career-relevant skills through participation in supervised work experience. Agency placements include courts, social services, counseling centers, research centers, and federal/state/local government. Relevant issues are discussed in weekly seminars. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Seminar format with limited enrollment. Interested students should contact the department chair or the instructor early in the fall semester before registering for the class. Students will not be permitted to enroll once the semester has started.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 402 - Social Work Practicum and Seminar (4.00 cr.)
Students develop social work skills through participation in supervised social work setting. A weekly seminar provides a forum for discussion of relevant issues and professional development toward a career in social work. Written or electronic permission of the department chair. Seminar format with limited enrollment. Interested students should contact the department chair or the instructor early in the fall semester before registering. Students will not be permitted to enroll once the semester has started.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 214 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 403 - Gender and Sexuality Studies Practicum (4.00 cr.)
Students develop career-relevant skills through participation in supervised work experience. Placements are in agencies/organizations that explicitly address issues of gender and/or sexuality, and may be governmental, nonprofit, or political entities. Relevant issues are discussed in weekly seminars or in tutorial, dependent upon course enrollment. Written or electronic permission of gender and sexuality studies director. Interested students should contact the gender and sexuality studies director the semester prior to enrollment. Students will not be permitted to enroll once the semester has started.
Prerequisite: SC 210 , two upper-level gender and sexuality studies minor courses (300-level or higher).
Restrictions: Restricted to junior or senior gender and sexuality studies minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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SC 405 - Seminar: Special Topics in Sociology (3.00 cr.)
An intensive sociological investigation of a specific topic. Seminar format with limited enrollment. May be repeated twice for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 , and 60 credits or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 415 - Seminar: Qualitative Data Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Students collect qualitative data and engage in collaborative interpretive analysis using relevant software. Readings exemplify analytic strategies and focus on techniques and ethical concerns in ethnography. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 342 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 420 - Seminar: Race, Class, and Social Construction of Opportunity (3.00 cr.)
Among American core ideals in the notion that opportunities are equally available for all. Nevertheless, the lived reality is that opportunity is profoundly impacted by demographic factors such as race, class, and gender. This course examines the role of social and cultural capital (trust, civic, engagement, community attachment, and social networks) in shaping life chances and provides a critical understanding of how structural positions and social relationships affect the distribution of social opportunities such as educational and occupational attainment, health, and wealth. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 421 - Seminar: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality (3.00 cr.)
A seminar organized around the themes of gender, race, class, and sexuality that is designed to familiarize students with the theory and methods of studying these categories. The focus is on how these categories are socially constructed. Particular attention is paid to privilege, economics, historical and legal contexts, and systems that operate to perpetuate these categories. Throughout, the course relies on the voices of individuals to tell their stories via readings, personal interactions, and class visits. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 or SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF/IG
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SC 424 - Seminar: Privilege and Inequality in Education (3.00 cr.)
The sociological imagination is applied to the examination of how schooling is impacted by broader social structures, institutions, and practices. Specific attention is given to the influence of factors such as race, class, gender, social mobility, and social capital in shaping educational advantages and disadvantages. An equity lens is applied to the exploration of the extent to which schools promote equal opportunity and/or reproduce prevailing patterns of power, privilege, and hierarchy. The American educational system is emphasized and examined in comparative context. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 430 - Seminar: Gender and Justice (3.00 cr.)
Explores the capacity of the U.S. criminal justice system to deliver gender equal justice by also exploring how legislation, interpretation, and application of criminal law reflects gendered, raced, and classed assumptions about human nature, appropriate roles, and positions in society. Focuses on processing victims and offenders and access to legal employment. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 or SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IG/IPJ
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SC 434 - Seminar: Women and Deviance (3.00 cr.)
This seminar is divided into two parts. The first part of the semester examines the adequacy of traditional approaches to deviance in explaining the deviance of females. The second part focuses on selected problem areas: women and violence, substance abuse, and sexual deviance. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IG
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SC 435 - Seminar: Forensic Sociology (3.00 cr.)
The course considers the use of sociological data and its interpretation in decisions made by courts and other agencies of the judicial system. Areas considered may include profiling in law enforcement and corrections, spousal abuse, the death penalty, the CSI effect, and pornography.
Prerequisite: SC 101 , SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 440 - Seminar: Global Sociology (3.00 cr.)
Globalization has become a favorite topic of the late twentieth century, as technological revolutions during recent decades, combined with the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, have profoundly expanded the connections among the world's people. Any educated person in the twenty-first century will need to think globally, and this course explores the possibilities. Similarities and differences among societies are examined, along with the argument that a global social system is emerging. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 101 and SC 102 or completion of two social science core courses.
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 441 - Seminar: Reconciliation and Justice after Violent Conflict (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the challenges of fostering reconciliation after violent and protracted conflict. Students have the opportunity to learn about various contemporary conflicts, peace processes, and peace-building efforts, and to examine the tension between peace and social justice. Case studies include South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine, and Rwanda. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 498 - Forensic Studies Experience (3.00 cr.)
A capstone experience in forensic studies in which a student may arrange an internship, independent study, or research experience with a faculty sponsor to engage in an in-depth exploration of a topic associated with forensic or criminal investigation. Written or electronic permission of a sponsoring faculty member. Generally completed during senior year; students should secure a faculty sponsor and obtain the approval of the forensic studies director by the end of junior year.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SN 101 - Introductory Spanish I (3.00 cr.)
A thorough grounding in the four language skills: reading, understanding, speaking, and writing, as well as an understanding of the structure of the Spanish language, as well as the national literatures and cultures of Spanish American countries and Spain. For students with no previous knowledge of the language. Cannot be taken for credit by students who have taken three years of Spanish during high school. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SN 102 - Introductory Spanish II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of SN 101 . Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Prerequisite: SN 101 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SN 103 - Intermediate Spanish I (3.00 cr.)
A systematic consolidation and expansion of the four basic skills: reading, understanding, speaking, and writing. To increase and perfect students' acquired abilities/proficiencies in the language, and broaden their understanding of the country's culture and literature. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Prerequisite: SN 102 or SN 161 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SN 104 - Intermediate Spanish II (3.00 cr.)
A capstone course reviewing and reinforcing language skills learned in SN 101-103 to help students attain intermediate level as defined by ACTFL guidelines in the five skills: reading, writing, speaking, comprehension, and culture of Spain, Latin America, and other Spanish-speaking areas. Course includes use of the language in context, with authentic readings, discussion in Spanish, and film clips. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Prerequisite: SN 103 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IL
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