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Under faculty mentorship, students may pursue in-depth library or field research on topics of their choice.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

The purpose of this course is to acquire advanced clinical practice knowledge and skills that can be integrated into current systems of mental/behavioral health practice. Emphasis is placed on contemporary evidence-based assessment and intervention practices, integrated critical analysis, and culturally responsive and reflective practice. Graduate degree in social work or other related discipline and admittance into the Post-Graduate Advanced Clinical Practice Training Series is required.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Advanced Clinical Practice II is a continuation of Advanced Clinical Practice I.The purpose of this course is to acquire advanced clinical practice knowledge and skills that can be integrated into current systems of mental/behavioral health practice. Emphasis is placed on contemporary evidence-based assessment and intervention practices, integrated critical analysis, and culturally responsive and reflective practice. Graduate degree in social work or other related discipline, admittance to the Post-Graduate Advanced Clinical Practice Training Series.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Individual research.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Internship in approved social agency.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

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Nonprofit Leadership (GC)

Overview of the structure and processes of social life; impact of social forces on individuals and groups; interdependence of society and the individual; social significance of social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; emphasis on critical analysis of social inequalities and injustice.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Alcohol and Drug Studies (BS) | Applied Health Science (BS) Pre-Occupational Therapy | Ethnic Studies (BS) Business/Corporate | Ethnic Studies (BS) Local Community and Human Services | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Anthropology | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Economics | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Geography | Social Studies Teaching (BS) History | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Political Science | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Psychology | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology | Sociology (BS) | Sociology Minor

A critical description and analysis of selected social problems, as well as the social problems process through which problems are socially constructed and defined. A social constructionist approach examines how people and social systems define and react to social problems. Emphasis on the sociological perspective, critical thinking, roots of social inequality, and exploration of solutions and alternatives to existing social problems.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7 - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Corrections (BS) | Criminal Justice (BS) | Policing Studies (BS) | Sociology (BS) | Sociology Minor

Develop knowledge and application of statistical concepts and methods to facilitate research in social sciences disciplines. Students learn to work with quantitative databases obtained from census, social surveys, and experiments. Develop data analysis skills and use of statistical software programs. Practice data interpretations and statistical decision-making as used in everyday government, non-profit/for-profit, healthcare, academic and research organizations.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Applied Health Science (BS) Health Education & Promotion | Applied Health Science (BS) Pre-Occupational Therapy | Applied Health Science (BS) Public Health | Dental Hygiene (BS) | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Economics | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Philosophy | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Political Science | Sociology (BS)

Relationships, marriage, and families are studied from a sociological perspective. Focuses on the connections between society, culture, social institutions, families, and individuals. Particular attention is given to the ways that race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality shape family patterns and dynamics.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7 - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Explores the social construction of sex and sexuality. Key topics include the social, cultural, and historical construction of sexual identities, sexual bodies, sexual politics, sexual socialization, and sexual technologies, in the context of the sexual activities, beliefs, and morals of people.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7 - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Gender and Women's Studies (BA) | Gender and Women's Studies (BS) | Gender and Women's Studies Minor | Sexuality Studies Minor

This course examines the role of animals in society and the social relationships between humans and other animals. Students will explore how culture and society shape the ways other animals are integrated and treated in our families, schools, economy, legal system, and other social institutions. Through dialogue and writing students will identify their own perspectives on nonhuman animals and our relationships to them.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

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Human-Animal Studies Minor

This course explores sociological understandings of deviance including: an overview of major sociological theories of deviance; examinations of specific examples of high consensus criminal deviance (i.e., murder, rape, street crime, white collar crime), lifestyle deviance (i.e., alcohol and drug abuse, sex work), and status deviance (i.e. mental illness, obesity and eating disorders, LGBTQ identities). This course will emphasize how social constructions of deviance reinforce inequalities in society.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Corrections (BS) | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

A critical consideration of how conceptions of juvenile delinquency are socially constructed, emphasis on interactional and institutional contexts in which delinquent behavior takes place, critique of current theories on delinquency, and the juvenile justice response to delinquency.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Topics vary as announced in class schedule. May be retaken for credit if topic varies.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Topics vary as announced in class schedule. May be retaken for credit if topic varies.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

This course reviews the fundamentals of social research methods. Students will learn about process of designing research studies and key methods of social science research; they will develop skills to read social science research articles and understand research findings. Students will also develop and practice research skills.

Graduation Requirements:

Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Sociology (BS)

This course describes and analyzes sex/gender systems, interpersonal power, language and communication, the role of gender in social institutions such as the family, work, and politics, and the role of social movements in creating change in gender relations.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Gender and Women's Studies (BA) | Gender and Women's Studies (BS) | Gender and Women's Studies Minor | Sexuality Studies Minor

This course examines the sociological significance of popular culture and focuses on how popularized aspects of social life are produced, consumed, and experienced by members of society. Students will explore everyday rituals, collective behaviors, and cultural constructions that shape both macro and micro social interactions. Includes discussion of: celebrity culture, music, television and advertising, dating and romance, gendered inequalities, spaces and places, and the social and cultural significance of everyday practices.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

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Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

This course explores theories of sociological social psychology, especially emphasizing the creation of reality, self and identity, emotions, social order, and how inequalities are produced and experienced in everyday life.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

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Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

In this class, you will learn about indigenous relationships with the environment and how interactions with Europeans and other invading groups have altered this interaction with nature. We will begin with an understanding of how indigenous groups view nature differently than Western societies and move to the general interaction of societies with the environment. By looking at our general interaction with the environment, we will be able to discuss the similarities and differences between the indigenous and sociological critiques of contemporary environmental interactions. Same course as AIS 360. Credit allowed for only one of these courses.

Graduation Requirements:

Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Introduces students to social determinants of health and illnesses; health inequalities; and issues related to social class, race, gender, and ethnicity. Covers standards and practices in the healthcare services, professions, and institutions and their impacts. The course is designed to provide social and cultural competencies among students who choose the career path to becoming medical, health and human services professionals.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

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Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

Aging and ageism in the US and globally from a sociological perspective; emphasis on how age intersects with race, social class, gender, and sexuality.

Graduation Requirements:

Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Aging Studies for Nursing Students Minor

This course introduces students to thanatology, which is the study of the human response to death, dying, and bereavement within socio-cultural contexts. Topics include the history of death and dying practices and conceptions, current trends of death in our society, cross cultural beliefs and practices surrounding death, functions of death rituals, grief, the dying process, and debates about euthanasia and death with dignity legislation.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

The course will acquaint students with the dynamic forces operating in the field of population and development. Includes an introduction to basic theories and research techniques of population analysis, with coverage of national and global population patterns and their social determinants. In addition, the understanding of processes of fertility, mortality and migration. The causes and consequences of population growth (or decline) are discussed with special attention to resource depletion, food shortages, labor and others.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Relations (BA) | International Relations Minor

This course explores various forms of family violence including dating violence, spouse abuse, and child abuse. There is particular emphases on power dynamics in families and in the broader culture and evaluations of current policies related to family violence.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Corrections (BS) | Gender and Women's Studies (BA) | Gender and Women's Studies (BS) | Gender and Women's Studies Minor | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology