2022-2023 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Sellinger Scholars Program |
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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. By invitation only. Fulfills AC 201 course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to 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.
Concurrent Requisite: BH 198 .
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 (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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.
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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.
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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 or ST 210 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): IS 251 or BH 251 .
Concurrent Requisite: BH 197 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger Scholars. Open to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
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.
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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.
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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 or BH 200 , EC 102 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): EC 220 or ST 210 .
Concurrent Requisite: BH 197 .
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.
Concurrent Requisite: BH 198 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Sellinger scholars. Closed to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
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 or MG 201 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 305 or LW 305 or BH 406 or LW 406 , BH 320 or FI 320 , BH 330 or OM 330 ; or BH 260 or OM 260 , BH 305 or LW 305 or BH 406 or LW 406 , BH 320 or FI 320 .
Concurrent Requisite: BH 198 .
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 Scholars 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 (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
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.
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): BH 197 or BH 200 .
Restrictions: Restricted to senior Sellinger scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SC 100 - Introduction to Sociology (3.00 cr.)
Students learn the fundamentals of sociological inquiry both as a social science focused on the study of human organization, and as an art of critiquing various modalities of human organization. This course introduces students to the history of the discipline, primary theories of social order and social change, and the methods used by sociologists to answer salient sociological questions. Focused as it is on primary challenges facing the social world, this class provides an opportunity for students to develop an appreciation for history, philosophy, politics, economics, and the liberal arts in general, while learning to think scientifically and systematically about the social world, and the social construction of the individual within the social world. Required for all sociology majors and minors. Fulfills social science core.
Restrictions: Restricted to freshmen or sophomores, or sociology majors and minors, or forensic studies majors and minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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SC 201 - 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. Formerly SC 101. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IMC
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SC 202 - Social Power and Social Change (3.00 cr.)
Provides a thorough examination and critique of the institutions of state, economy, and society from a comparative historical, macro-sociological perspective. Attention is paid to the ways in which various social systems (political, economic, cultural) coordinate to regulate human action over time and space. In short, this course engages with questions that ask how, and in what ways, institutions of culture, economics, and politics influence our possibilities as social beings. Formerly SC 102. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IMC
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SC 203 - Globalization and Society (3.00 cr.)
Examines the phenomenon of globalization and its consequences for nations, communities, families, and individuals. The course explores how the world is ever more interconnected, and yet the different ways that societies, and the groups within them, experience globalization. Attention is also paid to historical legacies that have shaped current predicaments of world society today. Fulfills social science core. Closed to students who have taken SC 102.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IMC/IPJ
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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. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG/IU
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SC 205 - 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. Formerly SC 105. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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SC 206 - 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. Formerly SC 106. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE/IU
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SC 207 - 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 107. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IHE/IU
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SC 209 - 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. Formerly SC 104. Fulfills social science core.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IES
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SC 210 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (3.00 cr.)
An interdisciplinary overview of the role of gender and sexuality in society, providing a conceptual vocabulary for gender and sexuality studies minor courses and many professions and graduate programs. Questions explored: How do art and social media shape acceptable ways to express our gender and sexuality? How do gender and sexuality exist as elements of both the structure of society and individual identities? How are our expressions of gender and sexuality tied to our biology and to economics, educational systems, and political ideology? How do ability, age, class, ethnicity, nationality, and race intersect with gender and sexuality differentially shaping life experiences? How do individuals and groups resist patriarchal inequality and to what effect? The course offers opportunities to reflect on and critically analyze one's life experience through discussion, writing, and other methods, drawing on western and nonwestern sources. Required for gender and sexuality studies minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IHE
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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 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 233 - 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. Formerly SC 333.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IU
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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/IU
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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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.)
War and violent conflicts within society are unfortunately a pervasive feature of our global landscape. While conflicts are inevitable, violent conflicts are not. In this course, students explore the ways in which inequality and injustice relate to social conflict. Moreover, students increase their understanding of the conditions under which social conflicts tend to become violent and how they can be resolved nonviolently. A highlight around which much of the course is built is SIMSOC, a game simulation of society.
Prerequisite: SC 100 ; or SC 102; or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 ; SC 210 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 ; and SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Recommended Prerequisite: ST 110 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 ; and 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 100 or SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203
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 100 or SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 or SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 364 - Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine (3.00 cr.)
Through classic and contemporary empirical works, students are encouraged to reflect on the structural determinants of health, the limitations of Western medicine, and the perspectives and practices of complementary and alternative medicines. Topics include cultural influences on understandings of health, mental illness stigma, epigenetics, and the quality of doctor-patient relationships. The course consists of lectures and student-led discussions.
Prerequisite: SC 201 .
Recommended Prerequisite: SC 100 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE
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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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Recommended Prerequisite: 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: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Recommended Prerequisite: 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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 ; and SC 260 or SC 332 or written permission from the instructor.
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 100 ; SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 , SC 102; or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 , SC 102; or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 , SC 102; or SC 202 or SC 203 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 378 - Islam and Politics (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 100 , SC 102; or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 202 .
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: SC 100 ; SC 101 or SC 201 ; SC 201 or SC 202 ; 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 100 ; SC 101 or SC 201 ; SC 201 or SC 202 ; SC 342 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SC 397 - Gender and Sexuality Studies Capstone (3.00 cr.)
Addresses a selected topic from a particular disciplinary perspective in order to explore the construction and meaning of gender and sexuality in specific times, places, and institutional spaces in relation to other social categories, identities, and structures such as race, class, ethnicity, and ability. Topics and the disciplinary home of the instructor vary by semester. This course is intended to engage senior Gender and Sexuality Studies minors in collaborative feminist and/or queer analysis and cross disciplinary dialog about the substantive topic as the culmination of their undergraduate study in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Must be completed during senior year. May be repeated three times for degree credit.
Prerequisite: SC 101 or SC 201 , SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to senior Gender and Sexuality Studies minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
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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 100 or SC 101 or SC 102 or SC 201 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 , 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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 , 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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 ; SC 102 or SC 202 , or written permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 , SC 102 or SC 202 , SC 342 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 or SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 or SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 or SC 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
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 100 or SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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SC 441 - Seminar: Conflict and Reconciliation in Divided Societies (3.00 cr.)
Explores what enables societies to move from violent social division to a sustainable peace. The characteristics and dynamics of protracted conflicts, and the structural and cultural processes inherent in conflict transformation and peacebuilding in divided societies is analyzed. Students have the opportunity to learn about various contemporary conflicts, peace processes, and reconciliation initiatives. Case studies include South Africa, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and Israel/Palestine. Students also consider what conflict transformation and reconciliation may entail for the United States given the structural realities of racialized oppression and systemic violence. Seminar format with limited enrollment.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 102 or SC 202 or SC 203 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors, seniors, or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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SC 492 - African and African American Studies Portfolio (0.00 cr.)
A portfolio of representative work in the minor, submitted to the program director in the final year, is required. Students are required to work with the program director to compile and submit the selection of representative work from various AAAS-approved courses. Generally completed after completing all African and African American Studies minor course requirements. Written or electronic permission of the AAAS director.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF
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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.
Prerequisite: SC 100 or SC 101 or SC 201 .
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. Not recommended for students who have taken three years of high school Spanish. 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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SN 161 - Comprehensive Beginning Spanish (6.00 cr.)
A review course for students who have had three years of language study in high school and for students who wish to begin a second modern language. The material covered is essentially the same as for the SN 101-102 sequence, except that it is covered in one semester instead of two. This includes a thorough grounding in the five language skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge, as well as an understanding of the structure of the language, cultures, and literatures of the countries that speak Spanish. Special emphasis is placed on preparing students to begin work at the intermediate language level. Open to students who wish to begin study in a second modern language or who place into SN 102 . Contact time includes six 50-minute class sessions per week. Counts as two, three-credit courses. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required. Closed to students who have taken SN 101 , SN 102 , or the equivalent.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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SN 201 - Spanish Composition and Conversation (3.00 cr.)
Increases students' oral and written proficiency through assimilation of advanced structural patterns, stylistic analysis, discussion of contemporary topics. Summer sections offered abroad only. Closed to students who have taken SN 203 , SN 217 , or any SN 300-level course.
Prerequisite: SN 104 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 203 - Introduction to Reading Literature (3.00 cr.)
Transition from SN 201 to advanced classes. Develops reading skills with emphasis on class discussion and new vocabulary. Introduces Hispanic literature: basic terms, genres, detailed analysis, and themes. Works include novellas, plays, short stories, poems. Closed to students who have taken SN 217 .
Prerequisite: SN 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 300 - Spanish for the Professions: Healthcare (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the use of Spanish in healthcare and social services fields. The course provides functional Spanish designed for students preparing for a career in healthcare (speech pathology, psychology, pre-health, forensics, etc.) who need to be familiar with vocabulary, conversational Spanish, basic translation, and cultural practices. With an emphasis on aural and oral interactions, the variety of vocabulary and phrasal expressions used by Latinx populations living in the U.S.A. are covered. An equally important element of this course is cultural competency that provides students a cultural and historical background to understand the notions of health and sickness in the Spanish-speaking world. The course uses a specialized textbook and requires viewing complementary movies and reading literary texts to illustrate medical issues.
Prerequisite: SN 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IL
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SN 301 - The Culture and Civilization of Spain (3.00 cr.)
Studies the historical, political, literary, and artistic development of Spain including an examination of the characteristic traditions and customs of their social context.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
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SN 303 - Introduction to Mexican Culture (3.00 cr.)
Offers an interdisciplinary survey to the foundation of Mexico, its peoples, their origins, historical legacies, and present-day cultural productions. It combines disciplines such as history, literature, visual arts, cultural studies, music, culinary appreciation, and anthropology. Discussion topics include identity formation, migration, social disparity, gender violence, and political divide. The course aims to understand Mexican culture from multiple perspectives and offers a wider understanding of Mexico and its peoples.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 304 - Contemporary Central America (3.00 cr.)
With civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras during the 1980s, Central America endured class struggle in its most extreme form. After the peace accords of the 1990s and the repatriation of Central Americans who had assimilated the gang culture of large U.S. cities, the situation degenerated into nonpolitical, extreme social violence that continued to rip at the social fabric of the Central American region. Students examine a series of texts and videos which define the conflict and the violence related to it in terms of economics, gender, and race. Principal texts include Alegria, Belli, Menchú, Cabezas, and recent sociological research. Film and video documentaries supplement the readings. Closed to students who have taken ML 404 .
Prerequisite: SN 201 .
Recommended Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 305 - Visual Culture in Colonial Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Examines the visual production of the colonial period considering race, sexual gender, space, and religion as the analyzing factors. Readings consist of a variety of texts and images including chronicles, autobiographies, journals, paintings, maps, and plates. Visual sources come from Gillain Rose's Visual Methodologies, Serge Gruzinski's La colonizacion de lo imaginario, and Magli Carrera's Imaging Identity in New Spain. Authors included are Father Diego de Landa, Father Martín de Murúa, Jerónimo de Vivar, Úrsula Suárez, and El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 306 - Music and Latin American Social Movements (3.00 cr.)
Given the historical importance of musical expressions in relation to several great struggles and transformations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin America, this course analyzes the relationships between music and key moments of social, political, and cultural change in the region. Beginning in the sixties, the course encompasses the protest song, the new Cuban trova, the new Chilean song, and Argentine rock in their role against dictatorships. Additionally, popular music in the national liberation movement of El Salvador is explored, among other topics. In the twenty-first century, topics include social and ethnic inequity, particularly in the Colombian Pacific and the Landless Movement of Brazil. In addition to musical texts, the course utilizes academic articles and videos.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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SN 307 - Contemporary Spanish Civilization and Culture (3.00 cr.)
Examines the historical, political, and cultural aspects of Spain from the death of Dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 to the present. Students are given an insight into Spain's cultural diversity and the Spanish way of life through readings in contemporary history, politics, and culture as well as contemporary film and music. Students consider such topics as Spain's transition to democracy, the cultural boom of the 1980s, and the current importance of regional politics.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
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SN 308 - Violence and Culture: Columbia in the Twentieth Century (3.00 cr.)
Cultural territories that represent the complex and unique political, economic, and social realities of Columbia are explored. Starting with the eighties, students examine important events in the history of the country as recreated by writers Laura Restrepo, Fernando Vallejo, and Jorge Franco Ramos. Modern conflicts such as social violence, guerrilla resistance, and marginality are addressed, as portrayed in testimonial writings, documentaries, painting, and music. Students also analyze the effect of drug-trafficking on the rise in sicarios (young paid assassins) and their sociocultural practices, as well as their representation of juvenile violence both in literature and film. In addition to studying various fictional and nonfictional portrayals of violence, students explore the way other cultures perceive Columbia through the press, as well as the international community's response to the growing violence Columbians have been facing in the last 30 years. Closed to students who have taken SN 368 .
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL/IPJ
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SN 320 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the basic linguistic issues concerning the Spanish language. Students explore the basic concepts of the principle areas of linguistics, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and historical linguistics. Focus is placed on understanding of the basic tools involved in linguistic analysis and their application in the analysis of the Spanish language.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SN 321 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the linguistic study of the Spanish sound system and explores articulatory phonetics (how sounds are pronounced) and phonology (how sound patterns are formed and organized). Theoretical and practical comparisons between Spanish and English are made to illustrate relevant concepts.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SN 325 - Spanish Applied Linguistics (3.00 cr.)
The processes of learning and acquisition of Spanish as a second or world language are studied. Students study the history of this field, as well as the approaches and methodologies that have developed the field throughout its history. During the second half of the course, students focus on the concepts of the linguistic system of the Spanish language which present themselves as the most challenging for learners of Spanish, as well as pedagogical questions and issues associated with the learning and acquisition of Spanish as a second or world language.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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SN 327 - History of the Spanish Language (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the genealogy and development of the Spanish language from its roots in spoken Latin to modernity. Emphasis is placed on the close relationship between historical events and language change, as well as the role that literature plays in language standardization.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IM
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SN 329 - Spanish in the United States (3.00 cr.)
Explores various aspects of the Spanish language in the United States. Sociolinguistic issues of language variation, change, contact, use, attitudes, and maintenance are examined by studying multiple bilingual communities located in the United States.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IL/IU
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SN 335 - Contemporary Spanish Literature: 1975 to the Present (3.00 cr.)
A survey of literature in Spain from the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 to the present, covering the major figures in narrative, poetry, and theatre. Focuses on the relationship between literary structure and political context of the period, with particular attention to the rise of post-modernism as well as feminist and gay literature. Readings include Lourdes Ortiz, Manuel Vázquez Montalván, Paloma Pedrero, Antonio Gala, Pere Gimferrer, Ana Rossetti, and others.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IG
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SN 336 - Rewriting the Self: Women's Literature in Contemporary Spain (3.00 cr.)
How has women writers' perception of themselves and their country evolved following the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? This course is a survey of literature written by Spanish women writers from the 1940s to the end of the century. Students focus on first person fictional accounts of women's lives, the changing meaning of womanhood, the struggle for gender equality, and the experience of cultural and political exile. Authors include Rosa Chacel, María Zambrano, Carmen Laforet, Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, and Ana María Moix, among others.
Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IG
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