Department: Sociology/Criminal Justice

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AC2600 Computer Crime & The Law This course is designed to review the emerging case law that directs the proactive of computer crime ivestigations and computer forensics used by law enforcement and the private sector to combat computer crime. Students will review a variety of compu...
AFAM2670 Minorities and Majorities Provides an historical perspective for contemporary minority problems. Specific attention is given to social thought and current social conditions which operate to perpetuate minority group oppression. Analysis of social movements aimed at overcomi...
ANTH1020 Introduction to Anthropology An examination of the uniformities and diversities of human societies and the methods of social/cultural anthropology provided by ethnographic case studies. This course meets the CLAC I requirement.
BLKS3600 Chocolate Cities Using award winning books, Chocolate Cities (2018) and Color of Law (2017), as guiding texts, this course is designed to explore the major cultural, economic, political, and social issues that have influenced the development of racially segregated ci...
CJ1000 Intro.Crim.Just&Admin.of Just. Traces the history and philosophy of criminal justice system and the administration of justice, introducing the causes and patterns of crime and criminal behavior and the ways in which criminal justice institutions have responded in trying to solve t...
CJ1001 Career & Academic Exploration This course will equip Sociology and Justice majors with the tools to succeed in their major as well as make connections and establish relationships with faculty in the department and student support staff at the College. Students will learn about t...
CJ1140 Quant Data Analysis This course provides students with an understanding of how social science research is conducted and how one systematically evaluates quantitative research reported in the social scientific literature. Traditional data analysis, including the topical...
CJ2000 Criminology Introduces the student to the major theoretical perspectives and issues that characterize contemporary criminal justice thinking about the causes of crime, offenders, and victims/survivors; efforts to prevent crime; and the manner in which offenders...
CJ2008 Criminal Justice Experimental No Description Set
CJ2010 Criminal Law and Procedure Examines the law that proscribes offenses committed against society, property, and individuals. The course will look at how the penal code sanctions criminal behavior and creates a legal system that creates, codifies, and implements criminal laws, an...
CJ2018 Ethics in Criminal Justice Explores the importance of ethics in the criminal justice system, focusing particularly on the role of ethics in policing as it relates to the tension between personal ethics, cultural norms, social expectations, and the law. This course will examin...
CJ2020 Criminal Law This course examines the law that proscribes offenses against society, property, and individuals. It will also explore other crime typologies, including crimes against public safety and national security, as well as public morality, and offenses agai...
CJ2030 Criminal Procedure This course will examine how the justice system processes criminal cases, paying special attention to the balance between public order and individual rights. It will explore the origins and sources of criminal procedural rights, paying particular att...
CJ2040 Police Investigations This course will provide an in-depth examination of the investigative techniques and cases encountered by public law enforcement officers, government prosecutors, defense attorneys and private investigators. Students will be trained in the principles...
CJ2100 Corrections Critically examines institutional responses to crime and the systems created to sanction criminal offenders, including the history and practice of corrections intended to treat adult and juvenile offenders. Current evidence based best practices, incl...
CJ2110 Comm Corrections: Prob/Parole This course explores the development of probation, parole and other types of community corrections (diversion, pre-trial release and a range of intermediate sanctions) as alternatives to incarceration. We will examine and evaluate the people, system...
CJ2120 Restorative Justice: Com/Incar In this course, students will explore how social justice is framed in prison settings in the United States and around the world. Students will explore the limitations of the Western legal system and look at alternatives like restorative justice prac...
CJ2125 Resiliency Rising: Restv Justc This course will explore the trauma field within a restorativejustice context including an alternative way to addressviolence and heal trauma that is driven by relationships notsystems. Current trauma theories along with materials thatbuild resilienc...
CJ2160 Urban Life:Culture & Change An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on lifestyles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and lifestyles and family framew...
CJ2170 Population, Immigration,&Crime Explores the relationship between the natural environment, patterns of population distribution, the political economy, and crime. Focus will be on sociological factors that influence strategies of population control, with special reference to develop...
CJ2175 Immigration & US Justice Systm Explores the US immigration system, including past and current legislation, migrant admission categories and the visa system, as well as the role of the Department of Homeland Security in immigration processes. The course will utilize sociological pe...
CJ2180 Urban Crime, Policing:The Wire Using HBO’s The Wire Season 4 as a dramatic “text,” this course will review the major features of “streetwise” subcultures and social control found in many urban neighborhoods from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on youth violence and gang...
CJ2190 Transnational Crime/Corruption The engine powering the global economy produces winners and losers, and the winners are not always the 'good-guys.' Conservative estimates place the global drug trade at 2-3 percent of total world GDP. To put this in perspective, there are only seven...
CJ2200 Criminology Goes to the Movies This course will examine the history and application of criminological theory through the portrayal of criminal behavior in film. Students will use readings and weekly viewing assignments to reveal how academic and popular explanations of crime have...
CJ2204 Court Proc/Alt Path to Justice A study of the role of courts in the criminal justice system and the administration of justice, including court structure, principles and procedures.  Emphasis will be placed on the disparate impact of criminal justice involvement on marginalized and...
CJ2205 Court Proc/Alt Path to Justice A study of the role of courts in the criminal justice system and the administration of justice, including court structure, principles and procedures.  Emphasis will be placed on the disparate impact of criminal justice involvement on marginalized and...
CJ2212 Policing This course will examine law enforcement as a social institution focusing on legal, theoretical, and practical issues related to exercising social control with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, human rights, and ethical standards. Models and tr...
CJ2215 LE Bystander Prep, Ethics, Wel This is an intensive, engaging, 1 credit course designed to prepare students who are interested in pursuing law enforcement on three highly relevant themes related to policing today: ethics, wellness, and prevention of police force through bystander...
CJ2300 Women, Minorities, & Soc Justi Explores the relationship between race, gender, and social justice. Examines women and minorities as actors, activists, clients, and recipients within the justice system. Considers issues of law and public policy, crime and social control, democracy...
CJ2301 Juvenile Justice This course will provide a review of how society and the juvenile justice system have dealt with minors, including delinquents, dependents and status offenders. Students will review the historical and contemporary administration of juvenile justice....
CJ2320 Victim Advocacy This course will examine current theories and research relating to victims and survivors of crime as well as the ways victim advocacy and assistance is provided both within and outside the criminal justice system. Students will examine the nature and...
CJ2340 Developing Foundations Success This course is about you—your interests, values, personal qualities, and work interests/workstyle—and the skills and experiences you want to develop to achieve your academic and career goals. You will use internship search strategies, evaluate intern...
CJ2350 Human Diversity in CJ Examines how cultural and individual human differences intersect with the criminal justice system. The course will explore the interaction of the criminal justice system with issues of race, gender, age, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, phy...
CJ2401 Domestic Violence - CEU No Description Set
CJ2402 Domestic Violence Examines the problem of domestic violence from the perspectives of survivors, law enforcement, the courts, and health/mental health professionals. Special attention will be paid to understanding how sex, gender, power, and various forms of privilege,...
CJ2420 Computers and Crime Explores the growing problem of cyber crime and the emerging strategies of discovery, counter measures, and prevention by law enforcement agencies. This course is meant as an overview of the emerging crime problem, the ways in which this type of cri...
CJ2450 White Collar Crime This course introduces students to white collar crime andpotential careers involved in the investigation of white-collarcrimes. Students will engage in a rigorous theoretical examinationof the causal factors and economic impacts of white-collar crime...
CJ2505 Environ Law, Crime & Justice ThisThis course provides an examination and analysis of important federal environmental regulations, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Superfund. The co...
CJ2510 Introduction to Cybercrime This course will introduce students to the ever evolving and rapidly growing field of cybercrime and will review the challenges faced by society and law enforcement in responding to and investigating and prosecuting cybercrime. The course will focus...
CJ2530 Cyberlaw This course explores the effect of the internet on the law, and of the law on the internet. We will examine how network technologies can disrupt existing forms of power, laws, markets and social norms in unexpected ways, creating new centers of norm...
CJ2600 Methods in Social Research This course will critically examine qualitative and quantitative research methods used by social scientists to study the social world. The ways in which social scientists study societies and social issues are carefully examined. This course will chal...
CJ2610 Forensic Psychology & the Law This course focuses broadly on the relationship between psychology and the legal system, with an emphasis on how behavioral science research and the practice of psychology are utilized in criminal justice settings. This course includes an array of to...
CJ2620 Digital Forensics & Invest This course will introduce students to the latest digital forensics’ methods being used by investigators to identify, preserve, and extract electronic evidence, retrieve data, prepare crime reports and present information in courts. Techniques and t...
CJ2690 Terrorism I:Nature & Scope of This course will analyze terrorism as the use of violence aginst noncombaants for political purposes. The social roots and history of terrorism will be explored by way of putting current events into context. Other topics will include the influence of...
CJ2695 Terrorism II: Homeland Defense This course will have a three part focus examining the challenges to homeland defense posed by modern terrorism. The course will examine the response of governmental organizations (national/federal, state, municipal, city and town) to various threats...
CJ2697 Terrorism & Homeland Security Terrorism incorporates many of the current issues in criminal justice, including but not limited to criminal definitions and origins, public safety versus individual liberties, limitations on governmental responses through the rule of law, the applic...
CJ2700 Financial & Lgl Aspct of Fraud In the first half of the class, students will be introduced to Financial Transactions and fraud scheme. Recognizing the wide variety of threatening internal and external fraud schemes, including asset misappropriation schemes, fraud by vendors, and c...
CJ2705 Fraud Exam, Prvtn & Deterrence In the first half of the course, students will explore interviewingquestions, taking statements, obtaining information from publicrecords, tracing illicit transactions, evaluating deception, reportwriting, and utilizing open source and private databa...
CJ2800 Special Topics in Crim Justice Special topics in Criminal Justice.
CJ2991 Criminology Goes to the Movies This course will examine the history and application of criminological theory through the portrayal of criminal behavior in film. Students will use readings and weekly viewing assignments to reveal how academic and popular explanations of crime have...
CJ2992 Cyber Law This course examines the rapidly evolving domestic and international cyber law and policy landscape and guides students through some of the 21st century's most dynamic, crosscutting debates. Students will consider several key topics, including: inte...
CJ3008 Criminal Justice Experimental No Description Set
CJ3205 Law and Society Examines the origin, development, adaptation, and enforcement of the law in social and cultural contexts, critically considering the role of law as an impediment to or catalyst of social change. The course examines law in our everyday life, including...
CJ3212 Community Policing:Case Studie Advanced level course designed to develop and apply problem solving skills and processes to specific community problems, such as drug trafficking and youth violence, and consider quality of life issues in various settings. Case studies will evaluate...
CJ3300 Justice/Human Rights Advocacy Explores victimization and human rights violations globally and considers the strategies of human rights advocacy. The course also will focus on the role of victims/survivors, justice officials, and human rights advocates, as they respond to such atr...
CJ3301 Youth, Crime and Justice This course will present the origins, philosophies and evolution of the juvenile justice system in the U.S. Students will evaluate various theories of youth involvement in delinquent behaviors, status offenses and life-course criminal behavior with a...
CJ3305 Wrongful Convictions According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there aremore than 2400 recorded exonerations with over 22,000 yearslost and an unknown number of individuals who remain inprison for crimes they did not commit. The objectives of thiscourse include...
CJ3404 Sociology of Violence Study and evaluation of the major sociological theories and research regarding violence, including interpersonal, family, criminal, and institutionalized violence. Contexts regarding how persons are affected as perpetrators of violence and victims o...
CJ3450 CJ Exp. Lrng. Internship Requires students to work weekly in field placement and to participate in a seminar or conferences with faculty supervisor. Field experience sites are selected jointly by the student and instructor. This course meets the General Education Active Lear...
CJ3500 Comparative Justice Systems Cross-cultural study of the models of criminal justice systems and the administration of justice and conflict resolution in various contemporary societies. Attention given to what constitutes crime and criminal behavior, the profile of crime rates, c...
CJ3640 Deviance and Social Control Examines people’s behaviors and attributes that others come to believe are deviant. Reviews sociological theories that account for deviance. Explores different forms of social control that define and aim to prevent and inhibit deviance. Analyzes devi...
CJ3670 Hate Crimes and Hate Groups This course examines the etiology of bias motivated crimes, characteristics and the social ecology that nurtures its existence and persistence. In addition, the course will discuss: various sociological and ciminological theories in an attempt to un...
CJ3800 Seminar:Selected Topics in CJ Selected criminal justice and justice administration themes will be explored in a seminar format.Prerequisite: Any 2000-level Criminal Justice course.
CJ3900 Capstone Seminar:CJ The Capstone Seminar in Criminal Justice reviews the major theories and some of the current theoretical controversies with the goal of integrating theory, research, practice, and social policy analysis. Students are expected to demonstrate their comp...
CJ3901 College to Career Transitions College to Career Transition is focused on preparing you for what’s next—entering your professional career and/or graduate/professional school. You will engage with career development and career readiness best practices, coaching, and self-reflectio...
CJ4000 Independent Research/Study No Description Set
CJ4100 Independent Reading No Description Set
IA2160 Urban Life: Culture & Change No Description Set
IT2620 Digital Forensics & Invest This course will introduce students to the latest digital forensics’ methods being used by investigators to identify, preserve, and extract electronic evidence, retrieve data, prepare crime reports and present information in courts. Techniques and t...
MCJ3800 Seminar:Selected Topics in CJ No Description Set
P&H2160 Urban Life: Culture & Change An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on lifestyles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and lifestyles and family framew...
SCJ2000 Soc'ty/Justice I: Criminology No Description Set
SCJ2010 Criminal Law and Procedure Examines the substantive criminal law and procedure in American society. Emphasis will be placed on sociological and sociolegal theories concerning the making and implementation of the laws and procedures.
SCJ2100 Soc'ty/Justice II: Prisons No Description Set
SCJ2110 Probation & Parole The function of probation and parole in the administration of criminal justice, including the law and theory of probation and parole.
SCJ2160 Urban Life: Culture & Change An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on lifestyles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and lifestyles and family framew...
SCJ2170 Population, Immig. & Crime Explores the relationship between the natural environment and patterns of population distribution. The course will study sociological factors that 1: influence strategies of population control, with special reference to developing countries in Afric...
SCJ2200 Law and Society Examines the origin, development, and enforcement of law in social and cultural context and critically considers the relation of law to social change. A study will be made of the relation of law to society in both an historical and contemporary pers...
SCJ2204 Adjudication,Courts,Confl Res A study of judicial procedure, the appellate process, alternative sentencing and mediation.
SCJ2210 Police and Society No Description Set
SCJ2212 Community Policing Examines the concept of community policing in America. Exploration of the historical development of this concept and examination of the use of these techniques in contemporary society.
SCJ2300 Women,Minorities,Soc'l Justice Explores the relationship between race, gender, and social justice. Examines women and minorities as actors, activists, clients, and recipients within the justice system. Considers issues of law and public policy, crime and social control, democrac...
SCJ2301 Juvenile Justice A review of the juvenile court system, highlighting such areas as juvenile law, court diversion, dispositions, sentencing, waiver, monitoring, and corrections.
SCJ2400 Org'l and White Collar Crime An analysis of economic and political crime including corporate and governmental crime. A study of the cost and extent of elite crime and legal remedies under adminstrative law.
SCJ2401 Domestic Violence-CEU No Description Set
SCJ2402 Domestic Violence Examines the problem of domestic violence from the perspectives of victims, law enforcement, the courts, and health/mental health professionals. Intervention strategies reviewed and programs for batterers assessed. (N.B.: Students who take the summ...
SCJ2404 Sociology of Violence Study of the major sociological theories and research regarding violence, including interpersonal, family, criminal, and institutionalized violence. Both contexts regarding how persons are affected as perpetrators of violence and victims of violence...
SCJ2420 Computers and Crime This course is designed to expose students to crimes involving the use of computer, involving fraud and hightech crimes in business and government. Students will review case studies and investigations in this new cyber underground and examine law en...
SCJ2452 Sex & Gender: Biol/Soc Persp Examines biological and sociological research on sex and gender. Two main questions will be studied: 1) Biology is destiny: scientific fact or sociocultural bias? 2) How are men and women similar and/or different, and what are the orgins of these si...
SCJ2500 Cyber Crime & Terrorist Threat Increasingly computers are being used by terrorists to attack governments and private enterprise. This course is designed to review the emerging role of computers and the Internet in domestic and international terrorism and learn how law enforcement...
SCJ2600 Computer Crime & The Law This course is designed to review the emerging case law that directs the proactive of computer crime investigations and computer forensics used by law enforcement and the private sector to combat computer crime. Students will review a variety of comp...
SCJ2610 Crisis Mgt & Contingency Plann This course will examine the challenge posed by rapid and uncertain change particularly as a response to threats posed by domestic and international terrorism. Analyzing risks, decision-making, and planning students will use structured exercises to s...
SCJ2615 Computer Crime Invest. I No Description Set
SCJ2620 Computer Forensics I This course will expose the student to the field of computer forensics focusing on the collection, preservation, documentation, analysis and presentation of computer evidence for civil and criminal proceedings. Learning to use sophisticated computer...
SCJ2690 Terrorism I:Nature & Scope of Terrorism, the use of violence against noncombatants for political purposes will be explored, analyzing its social and historical roots domestically and internationally, putting current events into context. Other topics include the influence of polit...
SCJ2695 Terrorism II:Domestic Response This course will have a three part focus examining the challenges to homeland defense posed by modern terrorism by examining the response of governmental organizations (national/federal, state, municipal, city and town), private industry, and NGO's t...
SCJ3200 Edgework:Soc.Voluntary Risk This course explores "edgework," the sociological analysis of voluntary risk-taking. The course offers a framework for exploring the connections between risk-taking behavior and structural characteristics of modern society. Students will come to unde...
SCJ3212 Case Studies:CommunityPolicing Advanced level course designed to develop and apply problem solving skills and processes to specific community problems, such as drug trafficking and youth violence, and consider quality of life issues in various settings. Case studies will evaluate...
SCJ3260 Psychology of Violence &Terror This course will study the social, psychological, and cultural forces that promote violence among people and examine the consequences of violdence and terror. It will examine the use of violence, its impacts, victimization, and resilience. Particul...
SCJ3450 Participant/Observation No Description Set
SCJ3500 Comparative Justice Systems Cross-cultural study of models of justice and conflict resolution in various contemporary societies. Attention given to profile of crime rates, criminal adjudication procedures, incarceration patterns and practices and crime prevention programs.
SCJ3600 Capstone Seminar:Homeland Defe Students will integrate the content of the cousrework for this certificate, applying their knowledge and skills, to develop specific plans at the local level to enhance public awareness and local security. Traditional students will analyze case studi...
SCJ3615 Computer Crime Invest. II Applying the knowledge and skills from Computer Crime Investigations I, students will develop the skills in the computer lab to bring an investigation to the arrest stage leading to a search and seizure of computer systems. Basic skills will be devel...
SCJ3620 Computer Forensics II Using advanced integrated digital application programs in the computer lab students will gather digital evidence from seized servers and on-line entry into cyber criminals computers for the purposes of documenting criminal evidence in civil or crimin...
SCJ3640 Deviance & Social Control Examines forms of deviance, sociological theories of causation, and processes of social control. Deviance is viewed as violation of social norms and as prelude to social change. Individual rights and subcultural variation are considered within the...
SCJ3690 Terrorism This course will analyze terrorism as the use of violence against noncombatants for political purposes. The social roots and history of terrorism will be explored by way of putting current events into context. Other topics will include the influence...
SCJ3800 Seminar:Selected Topics in CJ Selected sociological themes will be explored in a seminar format.
SCJ3900 Crim Just Reflective Seminar No Description Set
SCJ3910 Capstone:Computer Invest.&Fore No Description Set
SCJ4000 Independent Research/Study Required: 3.00 Justice Studies g.p.a.; 2.70 cumulative g.p.a.; signature of divisional chairperson and instructor
SCJ4100 Independent Reading 3.0 SOC/SCJ g.p.a. 2.7 cum g.p.a.
SCJ4560 Practical Internship No Description Set
SOC1000 Introduction to Sociology This course serves as an introduction to the discipline of Sociology. Sociology is the study of human interaction and society. This includes both the power of individual actors and larger structures within society. Often times we may understand our d...
SOC1001 Career & Academic Exploration This course will equip Sociology and Justice majors with the tools to succeed in their major as well as make connections and establish relationships with faculty in the department and student support staff at the College. Students will learn about t...
SOC1100 Sociology of Pop Culture This course examines the social significance of popular culture historically and in the contemporary era. Topic covered include theories of popular culture. Distinctions between “high” and “low” culture, domination and resistance in popular culture,...
SOC1140 Quant Data Analysis This course provides students with an understanding of how social science research is conducted and how one systematically evaluates quantitative research reported in the social scientific literature. Traditional data analysis, including the topical...
SOC1600 Social Problems Utilizes a social problems approach in the analysis of contemporary American society, including questions of origins/ causes, public opinion, and proposed solutions. Investigates such issues as work, poverty, racism, sexism, population, violence, an...
SOC2008 Sociology Experimental No Description Set
SOC2050 Social Problems This course systematically analyzes a small selection of major contemporary social problems such as unemployment, environmental degradation and pollution, drugs, and crime, using current research and data. The focus of the course is on the sources,...
SOC2080 Tradition of India No Description Set
SOC2090 Climate Justice Climate change has already begun to disrupt the Earth and society in many ways. It threatens the suitability of the Earth and therefore the future of society. As with other environmental justice issues, climate change threatens the most socially vu...
SOC2095 Environmental Justice In this course, students will explore the disproportionateburdens of environmental contamination and environmental health disparities affecting marginalized communities.Race, class, and gender as well as other socioeconomic factors influence access t...
SOC2115 Men, Self & Society This course will explore the origin and creation of masculinity. The focus will be on political and sociocultural contributions to gender identity in men and the consequences of masculinity for men and for society. The diverse psychological experienc...
SOC2120 Restorative Justice: Com/Incar In this course, students will explore how social justice is framed in prison settings in the United States and around the world. Students will explore the limitations of the Western legal system and look at alternatives like restorative justice prac...
SOC2125 Resiliency Rising: Restv Justc This course will explore the trauma field within a restorativejustice context including an alternative way to addressviolence and heal trauma that is driven by relationships notsystems. Current trauma theories along with materials thatbuild resilienc...
SOC2130 Revolutionary Ideas:Soc Theory Can we understand social life just through our experience? Or do we improve our understanding by stepping back and observing it in a wider social context? Social theory helps us answer these questions and becomes a tool for making sense of the worl...
SOC2150 Developing Community Circles Explores the meaning of "inclusive community" in educational settings where individuals develop a positive environment based on mutual respect that promotes affirmative human growth and learning. Offers authentic opportunities to examine, reflect upo...
SOC2160 Urban Life: Culture & Change An analysis of urban social systems with a focus on lifestyles and change in contemporary American society. The course will center on ethnicity and ethnic groups, using cross-cultural case studies, data on immigrants, and lifestyles and family framew...
SOC2162 Sociology of Education In this course, students study the relationship between school and society in historical and contemporary conxtexts. Issues such as class, ethnicity, gender, and culture will be explored as well as ways in which educators have responded to them. Stu...
SOC2170 Population, Immig. & Crime Explores the relationship between the natural environment and patterns of population distribution. The course will study sociological factors that 1: influence strategies of population control, with special reference to developing countries in Afric...
SOC2175 Immigration & US Justice Systm Explores the US immigration system, including past and current legislation, migrant admission categories and the visa system, as well as the role of the Department of Homeland Security in immigration processes. The course will utilize sociological pe...
SOC2180 Urban Crime, Policing:The Wire Using HBO’s The Wire Season 4 as a dramatic “text,” this course will review the major features of “streetwise” subcultures and social control found in many urban neighborhoods from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on youth violence and gang...
SOC2200 Race and Ethnicity Ideas and beliefs about "race" and ethnicity are pervasive in U.S. culture and consciousness. Are they real or socially constructed? When and why did "race," and theories of racial difference and inequality, emerge as a dominant, and now discredite...
SOC2230 Women, Health and Health Care Women are the majority of caregivers and patients in the current health care system. This course discusses the various forces- historical, political, sociological, economic, biological, and psychological - that create and maintain women's utilizatio...
SOC2300 Women, Minorities & Social Jus Explores the relationship between race, gender, and social justice. Examines women and minorities as actors, activists, clients, and recipients within the justice system. Considers issues of law and public policy, crime and social control, democracy...
SOC2310 Intro to Social Work Practice Social work practice is guided by ethics, values, knowledge, and skills. This course is a study of social work practice with emphasis on the historical, philosophical values of social welfare in the United States. The course exposes students to soc...
SOC2340 Developing Foundations Success This course is about you—your interests, values, personal qualities, and work interests/workstyle—and the skills and experiences you want to develop to achieve your academic and career goals. You will use internship search strategies, evaluate intern...
SOC2350 Human Diversity in CJ Examines how cultural and individual human differences intersect with the criminal justice system. The course will explore the interaction of the criminal justice system with issues of race, gender, age, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, phy...
SOC2402 Domestic Violence Examines the problem of domestic violence from the perspectives of survivors, law enforcement, the courts, and health/mental health professionals. Special attention will be paid to understanding how sex, gender, power, and various forms of privilege,...
SOC2404 Sociology of Violence Study of the major sociological theories and research regarding violence, including interpersonal, family, criminal, and institutionalized violence. Both contexts regarding how persons are affected as perpetrators of violence and victims of violence...
SOC2410 Working with Individuals Introduces students to the systems model, which enables them to view individuals in relation to family, social network, privilege, race, gender, and community. Knowledge of both historical and current social trends is examined as it relates to provid...
SOC2414 Victorian Mystery:L.BordenCase The course uses the still unsolved 1892 Borden murder case to examine the social and cultural history of New England in the nineteenth century. The topics of urbanization, women's roles, family life, religion, social class, role of media, as well as...
SOC2420 Wrkg with Groups & Communities Develops intervention skills in small groups, advocacy, and community organization. Methods and skills designed to help both the group as a whole and individual members are explored and analyzed. The course also provides an introduction to community,...
SOC2450 Social Policy & Social Justice Social Policy is both a philosophical concept and a social process. As a philosophical concept, it considers value dimensions and issues of social justice: equality versus inequality, liberty versus domination, exploitation, and oppression; cooperat...
SOC2452 Sex & Gender: Biol/Soc Persp Examines biological and sociological research on sex and gender. Two main questions will be studied: 1) Biology is destiny: Scientific fact or sociocultural bias? 2) How are men and women similar and/or different, and what are the origins of these...
SOC2455 Men and Masculinities Designed to serve as an introduction to the emerging academic field of men's studies, this course will examine the socio-historical roots of masculinity, how it has been transformed over time and the far-reaching implications of these changing defini...
SOC2460 Social Movements No Description Set
SOC2470 Sex, Gender & Sexuality Sex, gender, and sexuality are social constructions that have enormous impact in society. This course will examine the differences among sex, gender, and sexuality. What are the norms and social expectations associated with each of these terms and wh...
SOC2480 Sports and Society This course will bring a critical sociological perspective to the realm of sports. Students will examine sports and the impact it has in social, cultural, and economic areas of social life, both in the United States and internationally. Using socio...
SOC2490 Grassroots: Org, Ldr This course serves as an introduction to community organizing and similar forms of activism and advocacy. The course material combines theory, case studies, and practical guides that will help students develop the knowledge, skills, and leadership po...
SOC2500 Social Movements No Description Set
SOC2505 Environ Law, Crime & Justice This course provides an examination and analysis of important federal environmental regulations, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Superfund. The course...
SOC2510 Social Movements/Social Action People often band together and challenge existing social arrangements; such efforts are important because they attempt to achieve or resist a social change. This course examines social action, as part of people’s collective efforts to create or oppos...
SOC2600 Methods in Social Research This course will critically examine qualitative and quantitative research methods used by social scientists to study the social world. The ways in which social scientists study societies and social issues are carefully examined. This course will chal...
SOC2620 Diversity in Families A popular image of the “family” is that of a male father and female mother and their children; a self-contained entity. This course explores why that image does not match reality and demonstrates that there are many different kinds of family, kinshi...
SOC2650 Sociology of Hlth & Hlth Care Avoidable health inequalities arise from the environments in which people live, as well as political, social, and economic forces. This course examines factors such as: culture, gender, race/ethnicity, class, and age and their impact on health and tr...
SOC2660 Sociology of Women Examines women's relationships with each other, with men, and with children, and women's experiences with social institutions (i.e., work, family, religion, education, politics, military, health care, media). Analyzes commonalities and variations am...
SOC2670 Minorities and Majorities Provides an historical perspective for contemporary minority problems. Specific attention is given to social thought and current social conditions which operate to perpetuate minority group oppression. Analysis of social movements aimed at overcomi...
SOC2680 Sociology of Work Examines how work is organized, how people experience it, and what it means to them. Explores different workplace structures and how people's places within them relate to their earnings and general well-being, including their identity and pride, auto...
SOC2690 Terrorism I:Nature & Scope of Terrorism, the use of violdence against noncombatants for political purposes will be explored, analyzing its social and historical roots domestically and internationally, putting current events into context. Other topics include the influence of poli...
SOC2695 Terrorism II:Domestic Response This course will have a three part focus examining the challenges to homeland defense posed by modern terrorism by examining the response of governmental organizations (national/federal, state, municipal, city and town), private industry, and NGO's t...
SOC2700 Environmental Sociology This course will explore a wide range of sociological issues related to the environment at the local, regional, national, and global levels. Specific attention will be devoted to the social consequences of toxic waste in the community and environment...
SOC2760 Wealth, Poverty & Social Class Differential distribution of income, wealth, and power is found across the United States and the globe. The nature and extent of wealth and poverty, and the gradations in between, as well as social policies aimed at addressing inequality are the foca...
SOC2800 Special Topics in Sociology CJ/SOC 2800 Special Topics: Human DiversityThis course examines how individual human differences relate to the criminal justice system. The course will explore the interaction of the criminal justice system with issues of race, gender, age, socio-eco...
SOC2991 Criminology Goes To The Movies This course will examine the history and application of criminological theory through the portrayal of criminal behavior in film. Students will use readings and weekly viewing assignments to reveal how academic and popular explanations of crime have...
SOC2992 Cyber Law This course examines the rapidly evolving domestic and international cyber law and policy landscape and guides students through some of the 21st century's most dynamic, crosscutting debates. Students will consider several key topics, including: inte...
SOC3008 Sociology Experimental No Description Set
SOC3200 Edgework:Soc Voluntary Risky This course explores "edgework," the sociological analysis of voluntary risk-taking. The course offers a framework for exploring the connections between risk-taking behavior and structural characteristics of modern society. Students will come to unde...
SOC3300 Soc of Medicine & the Body Most accounts of health, medicine, and the body focus on biological and physiological factors. Sociology argues that health, illness, and our bodies are deeply social. Health and illness shape how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us, and...
SOC3390 Crisis Intervention Designed to familiarize participants with a definition of crisis from the standpoint of the individual, the family, and a larger social context. Students will develop a specialized understanding of life crises such as adolescence, family violence, a...
SOC3404 Sociology of Violence Study and evaluation of the major sociological theories and research regarding violence, including interpersonal, family, criminal, and institutionalized violence. Contexts regarding how persons are affected as perpetrators of violence and victims o...
SOC3450 SOC Exp. Lrng. Internship Requires students to work weekly in field placement and to participate in a seminar or conferences with faculty supervisor. Field experience sites are selected jointly by the student and instructor. This course meets the General Education Active Lear...
SOC3500 Seminar: Selected Topics Selected sociological themes will be explained in a seminar format.
SOC3600 Chocolate Cities Using award winning books, Chocolate Cities (2018) and Color of Law (2017), as guiding texts, this course is designed to explore the major cultural, economic, political, and social issues that have influenced the development of racially segregated ci...
SOC3610 Communities Explores ways in which people form communities based on a shared place, spirit, interest, and/or identity. Examines how people experience communities and define themselves and their relationships with one another through patterns of residence and ide...
SOC3640 Deviance and Social Control Examines people’s behaviors and attributes that others come to believe are deviant. Reviews sociological theories that account for deviance. Explores different forms of social control that define and aim to prevent and inhibit deviance. Analyzes devi...
SOC3650 Images & Power Postmodern analysis of popular American culture with emphasis on ethnicity, class and gender. Any 2000-level Sociology course.
SOC3690 Terrorism This course will analyze terrorism as the use of violence against noncombatants for political purposes. The social roots and history of terrorism will be explored by way of putting current events into context. Other topics will include the influence...
SOC3760 Wealth,Poverty,Soc'l Class/Ame An analysis of social classes in America, looking at the distribution of income and wealth, life chances, status and prestige, lifestyle differences, power and powerlessness, social mobility, and class conflict from various sociological theories of i...
SOC3800 Seminar: Selected Topics Selected sociological themes will be explained in a seminar format. Prerequisite: Any 2000-level Sociology course.
SOC3900 Sr Seminar: Doing Sociology Synthesizing theory and research requires critical reflection and evaluation. Students draw on their acquired knowledge to demonstrate a strong understanding of the discipline through actively doing sociology. Graduating seniors are asked to integrat...
SOC3901 College to Career Transitions College to Career Transition is focused on preparing you for what’s next—entering your professional career and/or graduate/professional school. You will engage with career development and career readiness best practices, coaching, and self-reflectio...
SOC4000 Independent Research/Study Required: 3.00 sociology g.p.a.; 2.70 cumulative g.p.a.; signatures of the divisional chairperson and instructor
SOC4100 Independent Reading Required: 3.00 Sociology g.p.a.; 2.70 cumulative g.p.a.
SOC4560 Practical Internship No Description Set
SOJ3450 Participant/Observer No Description Set
SOJ4000 Independent Research/Study Required: 3.00 Justice Studies g.p.a.; 2.70 cumulative g.p.a.; signatures of the divisional chairperson and instructor
SOJ4100 Independent Reading Required: 3.00 Justice Studies g.p.a.; 2.70 cumulative g.p.a.
SWK2310 Intro to Social Work Practice Social work practice is guided by ethics, values, knowledge, and skills. This course is a study of social work practice with emphasis on the historical, philosophical values of social welfare in the United States. The course exposes students to soc...
SWK2410 Working with Individuals Introduces students to the systems model, which enables them to view individuals in relation to family, social network, privilege, race, gender, and community. Knowledge of both historical and current social trends is examined as it relates to provid...
SWK2420 Working with Groups/Community Develops intervention skills in small groups, advocacy, and community organization. Methods and skills designed to help both the group as a whole and individual members are explored and analyzed. The course also provides an introduction to community,...
SWK3000 Advocacy in Soc Work Practice This course explores macro practice in the context of community organization, management of policy analysis. Emphasis placed on the development of intervention and advocacy strategies to achieve change and build capacity in organizations and communi...
SWK3390 Crisis Intervention Designed to familiarize participants with a definition of crisis from the standpoint of the individual, the family, and a larger social context. Students will develop a specialized understanding of life crises such as adolescence, family violence, a...
SWK3450 Pending Internship Requires students to work weekly in field placement and to participate in a seminar or conferences with faculty supervisor. Field experience sites are selected jointly by the student and instructor. This course meets the General Education Active Lear...
WGS2402 Domestic Violence Examines the problem of domestic violence from the perspectives of survivors, law enforcement, the courts, and health/mental health professionals. Special attention will be paid to understanding how sex, gender, power, and various forms of privilege,...
WGS2680 Sociology of Work Examines how work is organized, how people experience it, and what it means to them. Explores different workplace structures and how people's places within them relate to their earnings and general well-being, including their identity and pride, auto...
WGS2760 Wealth, Poverty & Social Class Differential distribution of income, wealth, and power is found across the United States and the globe. The nature and extent of wealth and poverty, and the gradations in between, as well as social policies aimed at addressing inequality are the foca...
WGS3404 Sociology of Violence Study and evaluation of the major sociological theories and research regarding violence, including interpersonal, family, criminal, and institutionalized violence. Contexts regarding how persons are affected as perpetrators of violence and victims o...
WGS3640 Deviance and Social Control Examines people's behaviors and attributes that others come to believe are deviant. Reviews sociological theories that account for deviance. Explores different forms of social control that define and aim to prevent and inhibit deviance. Analyzes devi...