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PSY 3023 - Drug/Alcohol Abuse Counseling with the Family
An investigation of the alcoholic and drug abusing family system, and the cumulative crisis in the family resulting from addiction. Emphasis will be placed on co-dependency, the characteristics of Children and Adult Children of Alcoholics (COA/ACOA) and other chemical abusers, prevalent treatment approaches and the role of self-help programs.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite/Corequisite: PSY 3001 , DAA 3001 or permission of instructor. Not Open to Freshmen.
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PSY 3031 - Drug and Alcohol Counseling
Application of counseling approaches, including treatment planning, setting goals and objectives, the therapuetic interview, the process of recovery and relapse counseling, to the drug and alcohol abuse situation. Same course as DAA 3031 .
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite/Corequisite: PSY 3001 , DAA 3001 or permission of the instructor. Not Open to Freshmen.
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PSY 3101 - Health Counseling
This course provides an overview of the health counseling field including the role of psychological factors in the etiology and treatment of physical illness. Basic counseling theories are reviewed and related to health counseling interventions. Emphasis is placed on cognitive-behavorial treatment strategies pertaining to health maintenance, primary prevention and risk factor reduction.
Lecture
4 Credits
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PSY 3220 - Psychology of Drug Habituation and Addiction
Behavioral effects of sedative hypnotic compounds, stimulants, convulsants, anti-psychotic agents, psychedelics, hallucinogens, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and other drugs of psychological influence will be examined. Consideration will be given to attitudes toward drugs, theories of drug addiction and treatment. Methods of therapy will be discussed. Comparisons will be made with use of other methods for behavioral change.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: DAA 3001 /PSY 3001
Offered in the Fall Semester
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PSY 3400 - Employee Assistance Programs
This course explores the history and changing models of employee assistance programs focusing on clinical issues of drugs, alcohol, and psycho-pathologies as they relate to the workplace. Students learn about practitioner professionalization, supervisory and union representative training and the use of community resources to address personal and health problems.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: DAA 3001 /PSY 3001
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RST 101 - Religion in the Contemporary World
A consideration of human religious experience in the contemporary world with a particular focus on Christianity, Islam, and at least one other religious tradition.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring
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RST 204 - Christian Scriptures
This course will familiarize students with the Scriptural bases - both Old and New Testaments of Catholicism. Special attention will be paid to the original context and meaning of the Scriptures, as well as their relevance and application in contemporary settings.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 205 - Buddhist Wisdom
Grounded in the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religion,” the course will introduce the heart of the Buddhist tradition by reflecting on the experience, life and teachings of Siddhartha Gotama, The Buddha. Examining the religious and cultural context within which he lived and taught, the course will explore the insight and wisdom of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Attention will be given to the development of Mahayana Buddhism though a consideration of primary texts from within that tradition.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 206 - Spirituality
An exploration of contemporary Christian spirituality as the lived experience of faith - the on-going life-project of person integration and self-transcendence - offering theological, historical, cultural, psychological and interfaith contexts for understanding its manifold expressions. The course will survey select trends and issues in contemporary Catholic spirituality signaled by Vatican Council II such as the post-modern quest for meaning; the impact on personal self-understanding of contemporary psychology and cosmology; the challenge of social and ecological commitment; the variety of contemplative resources available for the development of the inner self; the way of Gospel conversion and sacramentality; and the relevance of the Catholic vocation - its vision, values, and practice virtues - for the life of the self and of the world.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 207 - Vatican II and Catholic Reform
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) revolutionized the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to the modern world. Within a few short years, a church that had been characterized as clerical, juridical, and triumphal assumed a different, more humble posture characterized by dialogical engagement with contemporary society. The Council renewed the Church’s self-understanding and consequently all areas of Catholic theology experienced radical rethinking. The sixteen documents of the Council will frame a study of the renewed meaning and practice of Catholicism in a post-conciliar age. The renewal of theological categories such as revelation and scripture, God, Christ, ecclesiology, and Christian praxis will be examined.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 208 - Ethics and Morality
An exploration of the history of Christian ethics - its language, norms, sources - with particular consideration given to Roman Catholic teaching on morality. Contemporary issues such as war, sexuality, poverty, biomedicine and ecology will be examined to determine how a Christian ethical perspective informs a particular response to the questions raised within these areas.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 209 - Peace and Social Justice
A consideration of Catholic ethical thought, as an expression of Christian ethics in history, regarding movements for peace and social justice in the contemporary world, with a particular focus on the Christian foundations of economic, racial and political movements for justice.
Lecture
3 Credits
Oral Intensive
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RST 210 - Religious Pluralism Series
This series provides a context to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by twenty-first century religious pluralism. According to Harvard Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Dr. Diana Eck, “Pluralism” and “diversity” are sometimes used as if they were synonyms, but diversity is just plurality … [p]luralism is the engagement that creates a common society from all that plurality. It is the energetic engagement with diversity.” Cross-cultural religious literacy and engagement with the religious Other is essential in the contemporary global context as cross-currents of secularism, new religious movements, and resurgent fundamentalist articulations of all the major world religions collide and mingle with each other. One discrete field of focused study will be chosen for each semester the course runs. A non-exhaustive list of possible topics that can be rotated in the series are: Islam, Jainism, Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Indigenous Religiosity, Atheism/Humanism, and hybrid interfaith religious expressions.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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RST 213 - Religion and the Natural World
This class will explore the relationship between religion and the natural world, investigating how religious worldviews have traditionally conceived of nature and have shaped human attitudes and behaviors toward it. Adopting a broad, religiously diverse perspective, the course will explore the convergences and distinctions among global religious traditions in their identification and celebration of nature as a sacred reality and their capacity to creatively respond to contemporary challenges and threats to the viability and integrity of nature in its planetary expanse.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring
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RST 215 - Islam: History, Belief, and Practice
This course serves as an introduction to Islam. It is an exploration of Islam as a lived religion, which examines the diversity of Islamic practices, beliefs, and worldviews - in history and in the contemporary world. The course engages topics such as Islamic sacred texts, art and music, politics, and mysticism. The goals of this course are to introduce students to texts and tenets at the core of Islam and to foster an appreciation for the complexity and the diversity of Muslim practice historically and globally. This course takes a multifaceted approach to the study of Islam: course materials include primary Islamic texts, academic readings, memoirs, works of fiction, as well as audio-visual materials.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: RST 101
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives
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RST 220 - The Religious Imagination
“The Religious Imagination” explores the myriad ways that human beings have encountered “the sacred” as an alluring yet perplexing horizon of existence. The course examines the rich variety of such encounters as they have been expressed across history and cultures. Students will also explore how our ideas of the self, society and the cosmos are shaped by the religious imagination.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered Fall, Winter, Spring & Summer
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RST 301 - Church History: Patterns and Paradigms of the Christian Tradition
The life and thought of the Christian church from the apostolic period to the present, providing an introduction and orientation to the Christian tradition in its various social, ethnic and period settings.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 310 - The Religious Traditions of China
This course will examine the insights, contributions and development of the three major traditions that have largely defined Chinese religious culture: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Emphasis will focus on the study of those primary textual sources (available in English translation) that most effectively illustrate the seminal concepts and subsequent elaborations within each of those traditions and their overall significance to chinese religious sensibility.
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 311 - Christian Approaches to Morality
This course is an investigation of the fundamental themes of moral theology. The course will include a survey of the historical, methodological and philosophical approaches to Christian morality with reference to the ethical dilemmas that confront the modern world.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 317 - The American Religious Experience
A study of the mutual interaction of religion and American culture, which has given rise to a unique variety of religious leaders and expressions. Topics to be considered include the Puritan ethos in American history and literature, the concerns and conflicts of various immigrant groups, civic religion; pluralism and American culture, church - state relations.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 318 - Violence, Peace & Social Justice
A consideration of Catholic ethical thought, as an expression of Christian ethics in history, regarding non-violent movements for peace and social justice in the contemporary world, with a particular focus on the Christian foundations of economic, racial and political movements for justice.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 320 - Spiritual Masters Series
An exploration of the sacred wisdom of the great masters of the spiritual life drawn from a variety of traditions, cultures and periods of history. Each semester the spiritual path of one such Great Teacher will be selected as subject for inquiry and experimentation (e.g., Jesus, the Buddha, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Therese of Lixieux, Thomas Merton, Rabbi Heschel, Mother Ann Lee and the American Shakers, Dorothy Day, Thomas Berry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Teresa of Avila, Bede Griffiths, John of the Cross, Rumi, Martin Luther King, Mohammad and Black Elk).
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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RST 324 - Christian Sexual Ethics
An exploration of the history of Roman Catholic and Protestant teaching on the meaning of human sexuality with particular attention to the sexual ethics that have developed in the Christian tradition.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 326 - Theology of Christian Service
A critical exploration through academic analysis and community engagement into the theological meanings of Christian service, the particular interconnections of service and justice in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, contemporary understandings of service as informed by Christian theology, Catholic social teachings, and modern day icons of faith. Service Learning Course.
Service Learning
3 Credits
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RST 327 - The Holocaust and the Churches
This course studies the Holocaust through the lens of Jewish-Christian relations. Students will study the relationship between Christianity and Judaism including the teaching of contempt and the teaching of respect. The question of Christian anti-Judaism and its significance for the Holocaust will be examined. The course is offered with a study abroad component. During spring break the class will embark on a journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Time will be spent in the cities of Oswiecim, Krakow, and Wadowice. Students will explore the effects of the Holocaust in those cities and experience contemporary Polish life. DCCG for core curriculum. Integrated core course for Violence ICT in the core curriculum.
Lecture
3 Credits
Blackboard Core Assessable Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives Offered When Needed
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RST 330 - Women, Gender, and Religion
This course is a study of the lives of women and gender identities from a variety of perspectives and in various religious traditions. It explores a wide range of issues and concerns, which have particular relevance to the religious experiences of women and persons of various gender identities.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Integrated Core Theme Centerpiece. Offered When Needed
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RST 332 - The Spiritual Legacy of Thomas Merton
A study of the themes and issues that comprise the spiritual teaching of Thomas Merton, Ameican Monk, mystic and prophet. The desire for Christian contemplation, a passion for justice and an appetite for Buddhism marked Merton’s spirituality as uniquely contemporary and catholic. A modern spiritual master, Merton has sounded the keynotes for Christian life in the new millennium. By following Merton along his spiritual path, students may explore the legacy of this exceptional teacher and draw upon his wisdom and insight for their own lives.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
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RST 336 - The Church: Issues and Challenges
An exposition of the historical and theological foundations necessary for an examination of the nature and function of the church; an analysis of selected issues and challenges facing the contemporary church, with a view to the imaginative responses made by Christian churches.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 338 - Gospels
A detailed examination of the four canonical gospels, the process by which they were formed, the form and function of their individual parts, and the final literary and theological effect they now have as complete works.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
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RST 339 - Spirituality for an Ecological Age
An exploration of contemporary proposals for new modes of Christian praxis in response to the critical moment of 21st century Earth history, which calls for the activation of creative energies to meet the current planetary crises of climate disruption, species extinction, resource depletion, food scarcity and, in light of these, unprecedented levels of human distress and suffering. Since religious traditions perceive our environmental situation as a disorientation of human consciouness and spirit summoning moral conversion, this course asks what specifically Christian initiatives and resources are available to fund a disciplined, creative and celebratory ecological spirituality arising from the religious tradition, the new cosmology and in dialogue with other sacred and secular voices of wisdom.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in the Fall Semester
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RST 340 - Creation Masters Series
It is urgent that the work of our age is to come into a new relationship with the natural world, so exhausted and abused by the demands of human kind. The ecological crisis, now at a critical stage, is essentially spiritual at root. Therefore, the task ahead of us will take tremendous religious awareness and spiritual commitment if we are to envision and then actualize a new sense of our human identity not against nature, but in communion with all the creatures and elements of the living Earth. This course will explore a variety of voices in the history of religions, with a special focus on Christian resources, who will guide us toward a vision of ecological wholeness. This course will take one or more masters or movements in religious cosmology under consideration each semester that it is taught. Examples include but are not limited to: Hildegard of Bingen, Celtic Creation Spirituality, the Benedictines, the Franciscans, Teilhard de Chardin, and Thomas Berry.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in the Spring Semester
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RST 341 - Story of the Universe: Foundational Cosmology and Earth History
This class will explore the significance of the universe, the emergence of the earth, and the evolution of life as integral creative events; it will seek to identify a comprehensive narrative description of the cosmos from its primordial origin through the formation of galaxies, the birth of the solar system, the shaping of the earth, the diversity of life, and the role of human consciousness within its unfolding process.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in Fall & Spring
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RST 343 - Sufism: Traditions of Islamic Mysticism
This course serves as an introduction to Sufism. Often defined as Islamic mysticism, Sufism is perhaps one of the most widely practiced forms of Islam in the world. Sufi practice is especially prominent in South Asia, West Africa, and Eurasia. This course will delve into ideas and debates that are at the core of Sufi philosophy and cosmology. It will survey various modes of Sufi practice and belief among lay adherents and among those on the mystical path. It will also take a close and critical look at aspects of Sufi practice that have permeated popular culture in Europe and America over the past century. This course takes a multifaceted approach to the study of Sufism: course materials include primary Sufi texts, academic readings, as well as audio-visual materials
Lecture
3 Credits
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives Written Intensive
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RST 370 - Creative Peacemaking
An exploration of critical issues of peace and justice through the faith and philosophies of several modern peacemakers, highlighting the causes of human violence and injustice and the conditions for social justice and peace.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 375 - Wisdom Literature
A study of the Wisdom books of the Old Testament in detail, their similarity to extra-biblical traditions, and their influence on the New Testament writings. Analysis will be primarily literary, though there will be some historical and comparative considerations.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in the Spring Semester
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RST 400 - Internship in Religious Studies
Internships in Religious Studies with cooperating museum, NGO, church-related agency, or other related institution under the supervision of a designated faculty committee. Method and content in religious education, theological or biblical research, justice and peace advocacy, direct service, religious environmental education, and method and content in varieties of interreligious dialogue will be studied. Conferences with designated faculty members and research reports will supplement the student’s practical experiential learning.
Internship
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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RST 401 - Images of Jesus throughout History
A study of the mystery of Jesus as experienced and expressed by Christians throughout the tradition, including the biblical, patristic, medieval and contemporary periods.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 402 - Christian Sacramental Theology
An analysis of the Christian sacramental worldview, the Church’s ritual activity, and the challenges that sacramental theology poses to, and receives from, the practice of Christianity.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 404 - Catholic Creation Theology
This course traces the historical tradition of Catholic Christianity’s theology of creation, rooted in early biblical sources, particularly the Books of Genesis, Job and the Psalms; illuminated in new Testament texts, particularly Johannine and Pauline writings; explicated and refined by the Patristic teachers; metaphysically elaborated in the Scholastic masters; and flowering in a rich medieval Christian cosmology. It will also investigate the contraction and eclipse of this affirmative celebration of the mysteries of The Trinity and Incarnation in subsequent centuries, beginning with the Black Death; in response to the Protestant Reformation; the challenges of the Enlightenment; the emergence of a secular and scientific-technological global culture – all of which contributed to the disorientation and dislocation of Christian theology and practice. Finally, and in light of the crises of the natural world, the inquiry will engage the resurgence of renewed creation consciousness and ethic of care within the Catholic community, both “from below” in popular women’s and environmental spiritualities and movements, and “from above” in academic theological and magisterial developments.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in the Spring Semester
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RST 406 - Biomedical Ethics and the Christian Tradition
An investigation of the Christian ethical tradition and its resources for an analysis of the ever-increasing challenges posed by developments in biomedicine and in the life sciences.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 409 - Jesus and Judaism
This course examines the life of Jesus in its Jewish context in an effort to uncover more accurate trajectories of continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity. The period of 2nd temple Judaism will be explored. An examination of key texts in the development of Jewish-Catholic relations since 1965 porvides a contemporary perspective on the theological developments of the first century CE.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 410 - Religion and the Constitution
An examination of the concept of religious freedom as protected and defined by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, considering the historical purpose and original intent of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state, the judicial construction of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, and contemporary controversies regarding religious freedom and practice in American society.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 411 - Prayer: Theology and Practice
An exploration of the human quest to develop the spiritual life through a study of Christian religious sources and traditions in a variety of formats and experiments with some techniques for the cultivation of spirituality through meditation practice, art, writing, music, dance, attention to nature, and commitment to service.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered When Needed
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RST 412 - Environmental Ethics and Religion
Confronted by the mounting evidence of severe and unsustainable threats to the integrity and flourishing of planetary life, this course will examine principles of ethical behavior, drawn from a comprehensive survey of global cultural traditions which support authentic earth ethic in which human responsibility and care extends to the integral community of earth’s soils, waters, air and the multiple plant and animal species that inhabit them. This theoretic orientation will be complemented by consistent consideration of actual case studies that explore the tension between humans as members of the earth community and the appropriate limits of human intervention with it.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Offered in the Fall Semester
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RST 420 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
These courses are designed to offer an opportunity to explore selected topics in religious studies that are either not covered in the religious studies curriculum or that will be covered in greater depth.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Department Consent Required
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RST 422 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
These courses are designed to offer an opportunity to explore selected topics in religious studies which are either not covered in the religious studies curriculum or which will be covered in greater depth.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Department Approval Required. Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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RST 425 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
An exploration of the sacred wisdom of the great masters of the spiritual life drawn from a variety of traditions, cultures and periods of history. Each semester the spiritual path of one such Great Teacher will be selected as subject for inquiry and experimentation (ex. Jesus, the Buddha, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Therese of Lixieux, Thomas Merton, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Mother Ann Lee and the American Shakers, Dorothy Day, Thomas Berry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Teresa of Avila, Bede Griffiths, John of the Cross, Rumi, and Martin Luther King).
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Department Consent Required
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RST 448 - Oxford University Theology
Lecture
3 Credits
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RST 450 - Senior Seminar
Directed research, readings and discussions for all religious studies majors for the purpose of coordinating the various branches of religious studies and researching topics of special interest to majors.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: any 200-level RST course excluding RST 203
Capstone Course Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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WST 330 - Women, Gender, and Religion
This course is a study of the lives of women and gender identities from a variety of perspectives and in various religious traditions. It explores a wide range of issues and concerns, which have particular relevance to the religious experiences of women and persons of various gender identities.
Lecture
3 Credits
Integrated Core Theme Centerpiece. Offered When Needed
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SOW 201 - The Camp Viva Experience
This one-credit course offers an introduction to the impact of HIV/AIDS on families and individuals and includes a service-learning experience. The classroom component involves an overview of HIV, a focus on related social issues and services, readings, films, an integrative paper, etc. The service component includes preparing for and participating in a Camp Viva reunion for HIV-infected and -affected families who attended the camp. Open to all students.
Lecture
1 Credits
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SOW 204 - Camp Viva Service Intensive Experience
This course offers an experiential exploration of the impact of HIV/AIDS on families and individuals. As camp counselors, students lead and participate in all daily activities of a residential camp for Westchester residents infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Academic components include preparatory readings, extensive pre-service training, on-site individual and group supervision, reflective journals, on-site lectures, a debriefing process, an integrative paper, and several classroom meetings during the fall semester. Open to all students by application and interview.
Service Learning
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
Department Consent Required
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SOW 210 - Introduction to Social Work
Social Work is a broad profession with common goals and purposes, practiced in a wide variety of settings. This course is designed to (a) introduce the student to the many roles and reponsibilities of the generalist social worker and (b) explore the various settings in which social work practices take place. The course emphasizes the impact of human diversity in addressing strengths, problems, and services. Open to all students for elective credit.
Lecture
3 Credits
Open to all students Offered in Fall & Spring
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SOW 2200SL - Sustainability and Community: An Environmental Justice Perspective
Sustainability is often depicted as intersecting circles representing its social, economic, physical (environmental), and spiritual/ethical components. Following an overview, this course focuses on social sustainability in theory and practice. Social sustainability includes the development of trust, reciprocity norms, equity, and other conditions that permit coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. With environmental justice as a lens, many aspects of sustainability and community will be considered. Over thirty percent of the grade is earned through service-learning projects, which will include an immersive rural experience and a local urban experience. The service-learning component will feature hands-on activities out of the classroom, work with community partners, and reflection, all with the goal of applying critical thinking to integrate course concepts. This course is open to all students with no prerequisites. It can be applied as elective credit to the Environmental Studies major/minor as well as the Diversity and Social Welfare minor.
Lecture
4 Credits
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 2210 - Introduction to Social Work
Social work is a broad profession with common goals and purposes, practiced in a wide variety of settings. This course is designed to introduce the student to the many roles and responsibilities of the generalist social worker and explore the various settings in which social work practice takes place. The course emphasizes the impact on human diversity in addressing strengths, problems and services.
Lecture
4 Credits
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Open to all students. Offered in Fall & Spring
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SOW 2220 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Human Diversity
This course is designed to teach students the principles underlying multicultural assessment and intervention drawing on knowledge, awareness and tolerance of differences among people. Through a process of self-examination and cross-cultural participant/observation experiences, students will explore themselves and the society in which they live, develop an appreciation of the multifaceted meaning of diversity, and cultivate professional alternatives for combating discrimination, stereotyping, and oppression across age group, race, gender, class, religion, physical disability, and sexual orientation. Attention will be given to increasing students’ understanding and assessment of the impact of diversity on clients’ lives.
Lecture
4 Credits
Open to all students Offered in Fall & Spring
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SOW 2230 - Social Welfare and Society
This course seeks to provide a basic foundation for understanding the place and function of social work in the context of the broader social welfare institution in the United States. It examines the meaning of social welfare in contemporary society. Social welfare is defined, and the history and current patterns of provision of services within social welfare systems are explored. Historical antecedents will be compared to recent approaches to the same issues. The role of values is examined, particularly as these values impact upon policy. One credit of this course is satisfied by independent work.
Lecture
4 Credits
Open to all students Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOW 2240 - Emerging Issues in Aging
This course has been designed as an introduction to the multidisciplinary study of older adults. It will focus on the strengths and resiliency factors, as well as social justice issues associates with barriers to access and utilization of health and human services based on culture, health literacy, health disparities, race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status of diverse elders.
Lecture
4 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring
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SOW 3120 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Life Course
Human Behavior and the Social Environment utilizes the bio-psychosocial perspective, which stresses a multi-dimensional view of human development and behavior. The multi-dimensional view of person in the context of the environment takes into consideration the challenges, stressors, and life tasks that occur during the life course. The individual and his/her environments are examined in their relationship to each other. The course stresses the importance of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, spirituality, and socioeconomic environment. One credit of this course is satisfied through a weekly lab in which students develop their cross-cultural group projects.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisites: PSY 201 , SOC 101
Open to all students Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 3130 - Social Welfare Policy
The purpose of this course is to help entry-level social workers understand policy formulation, implementation and analysis, and to use them as interventive strategies for social work practice. Policies of concern to the general practitioner are studied with particular attention given to the impact of such policies on the lives of women, people of various ethnic, cultural, racial and religious groups, individuals of varying sexual orientation, those who are economically disadvantaged, and those with physical or mental disabilities. A weekly one-hour online “policy skills lab” accompanies this course.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: SOW 2230
Open to all students Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOW 3200 - Research for Social Work Practice
This course is designed to teach students basic research skills so they can develop an appreciation of the significance of research in generalist social work practice. The scientific method (as well as its alternatives) is explored with specific relevance to social work and social welfare issues. As such, quantitative and qualitative research strategies are addressed. Ethical behavior and the protection of research participants are examined. Varying approaches to practice evaluation are emphasized by means of a final assignment that requires students to apply their knowledge of research in formulating a comprehensive evaluation research proposal.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite or Corequisite: CS 140 . Corequisite: SOW 3240
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 3220 - Social Work Processes I
This is the first in a sequence of three courses designed to prepare students for generalist social work practice with diverse client systems of all sizes, including the individual, the family, the small group, the organization and the community. Students are exposed to the broad theoretical base for generalist social work, to various fields of practice, and they explore a range of social work roles within the generalist framework. The planned change process is also introduced as the systematic intervention approach utilized by generalist social work practitioners and the requisite skills for its implementation are covered. A one credit skills lab is also attached to this course.
Lecture
4 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOW 3230 - Social Work Processes II
This course focuses on knowledge and skills related to interviewing, assessment, planning, contracting, goal -setting, ending and transitioning across client systems such as individuals, families, groups and communities. A multi-contextual (dimensional) framework is used to examine a wide range of factors (age, class, color, culture, diversity, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, etc.) that not only differentially influence behavior, but also contribute to increased understanding of the unique ways in which people and communities respond to life crises. Appropriate research based knowledge is considered in relation to the content, process, and outcomes of practice. A one credit practicum allowing students to test out classroom learning in the context of a social agency accompanies this course.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: SOW 3220
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 3240 - Social Work Processes III
This is the third in a sequence of three courses designed to introduce students to generalist practice skills and techniques that enable them to manage the planned change process with client systems of all sizes (individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, etc.). This class focuses specifically on application of the Planned Change Process to macro-level systems. Macro-level approaches include work utilizing task groups and advocacy, as well as intervention on the organizational, community, societal, and global levels.
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: SOW 3230 , Corequisite: SOW 3610
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOW 3330 - Violence, Trauma and Resilience
This course will look at the risk factors and vulnerabilities as well as the coping strategies and protective factors found in populations of people who have experenced violence and/or trauma. The history of psychological trauma and the stages of recovery will be examined. Varoius theories from psychology, sociology, criminology and social work will be reviewed in regard to the causes, responses and historical context of violence, trauma and abuse. Several methods of helping people who have experienced violence, trauma, and/or abuse will be presented. Special policy and governmental responsed to the plights of victims will also be covered. Topics will include natral disasters, terroroism, child abuse, domestic violence, and elder absue. Factors such as racism, classism, ethnocentrism and homophobia that contribute to violence, trauma and/or abuse will also be explored. Students coming into this course will be eligible to apply for a Certificate of Completion for the NYS Coursework/Training in the Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.
Lecture
4 Credits
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SOW 3610 - Field Instruction in Social Work I
This course is the first half of a year-long course in which the student will acquire supervised classroom instruction emphasizing development of generalist social work practice skills. The course content is directly tied to the 200-hour field practicum that students are required to complete during the semester. It will build upon, develop and further refine the principles, theories and methods of evaluation of generalist practice in the field setting. Particular attention is given to a review and deepening of the skills of effective communication and the differential use of these skills with people from diverse backgrounds.
Field Studies
4 Credits
Prerequisite: SOW 3230 and Corequisite: SOW 3240
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOW 3620 - Field Instruction in Social Work II
This is the second half of a year-long course in which the student will acquire supervised classroom instruction in the development of the skills of generalist social work practice. The course content is directly tied to the 200-hour field practicum the student is required to complete during the semester. It will continue to build upon, develop and further the understanding of principles, theories and evaluation of generalist practice as they arise for the student in the field setting. Students are also guided in the selection of a case for presentation at the “Senior Capstone Conference.”
Lecture
4 Credits
Prerequisite: SOW 3610 and Corequisite: SOW 4910
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 4910 - Senior Seminar
Senior Seminar serves as the social work capstone course, and has three purposes: 1. To help students understand and explore ethical issues and dilemmas that confront social workers in practice with clients, colleagues, supervisors, agencies and communities. A model for ethical decision-making is presented and applied. Students consider how gender, racial, and/or mental disability influence value systems and impact ethical decision making in practice. 2. To provide a locus for oversight and coordination of the Senior Capstone Conference, with the course instructor serving as mentor in the presentation preparation process. Individual meetings with the mentor constitute the fourth credit of this course. 3. Students of this course complete a professional electronic social work portfolio.
Seminar
4 Credits
Corequisite: SOW 3620 . Students have generally completed all other courses in the major.
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOW 4950 - Selected Topics in Social Work
Electives dealing with topics and issues of current interests to social workers as well as with emerging fields of practice may be developed in response to students’ needs and interests.
Lecture
4 Credits
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CDS 1105 - Parenting
An examination of the parental experience. Included for discussion will be historical and contemporary social trends; effective communication and discipline; and problem solving. The course will include both theoretical and practical approaches to issues of parenting.
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered When Needed Weekend Intensive
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CDS 1109 - Careers: How, What, Why and When?
An overview of how to develop one’s career. Emphasis will be placed on the student’s values, interests and skills. Resumes, cover letters, interviewing skills and other tools of the job search will be discussed.
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered When Needed Weekend Intensive
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CDS 1132 - Sports Sociology through Film
Sports films provide an interesting area for students to examine the relationship between sports and American society. By analyzing sports films students will see parallels between problems in sports, and problems in the larger society. (Weekend intensive)
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester Weekend Intensive
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CDS 1154 - Intercultural Awareness: Practical Applications
This course is designed to make individuals more aware of intercultural differences and to provide strategies for adapting to living, working, and traveling abroad. The course will be conducted as an intercultural workshop in which concepts and issues will be explored through the use of simulations, role-playing, critical incidents and other experiential exercises.
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered When Needed Weekend Intensive
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CDS 1158 - Aids and Society
This course will analyze many of the psycho-social issues that surround the issue of AIDS. These will be discussed in the context of moral and religious values, myths and phobias, and public policy. The impact of AIDS on both individuals and society will be explored.
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester Weekend Intensive
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CDS 1179 - Sociology of Jazz
This course emphasizes listening as well as sociological skills. It is important to recognize the manner in which jazz musicians use sound to construct their symbols in order to explore the sociological aspects of jazz. This course offers examples from different eras in jazz history via audio and video tapes as well as the presentations of live musicians.
Lecture
1 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester Weekend Intensive
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SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
An introduction to the principles and methods of sociology. Topics include society and culture, socialiazation, family, social stratification, race and ethnicity, deviance and social control.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOC 102 - Social Problems
An examination of the social problems which confront present day American society, including the problems of urbanization, family instability, crime and delinquency, pollution of the environment, poverty and welfare, race and ethnic conflict, and the rapidity of social and industrial change.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOC 301 - Major Social Thinkers
A study of classic and modern social theories. Classical theorists such as Marx, Durkheim, Simmel and Weber will be studied along with the modern theoretical approaches of functionalism, symbolic interactionism, conflict theory and ethnomethodology. These theories will be tested against modern principles of the logic of theory construction.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 101 or SOC 102
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOC 302 - Socialization
A study of the relationship between the individual and society as a lifelong process. The roles of group behavior and social organization in shaping personality; social factors and their impact on the development of the self; how individuals are socialized into playing various roles in society.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 306 - Sociology of Deviant Behavior
A study of how society comes to define certain behavior as deviant; an analysis of those deviances which form social problems: drug and alcohol addiction, pornography and sexual deviance, acts of violence, and the relationship of deviant subcultures to social disorganization, social conflict and social change.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 314 - Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to the principles and field work methods in cultural anthropology. A look at various traditional societies and American subcultures focusing on social organization, family and kinship, political and economic institutions, and myth and religion.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 321 - Urban Society
Social factors contributing to the development of urban areas; major urban trends including suburbanization, and regional migration; urban problems; theories and methods of studying urban areas.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 322 - Race and Ethnic Relations
Ethnic groups in American society, problems of prejudice and discrimination, myths and scientific research concerning group differences, contemporary issues and dilemmas of intergroup relations
Lecture
3 Credits
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Offered in the Fall Semester. Written Intensive
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SOC 323 - Social Class in America
A study of inequality in class, status and power, its consequences and the forces which tend to increase and decrease it; status seeking, social mobility and American socioeconomic class variations; influence of increasing demands of Third World countries for a larger share in the world’s resources and power.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 324 - Sex and Gender Roles in Modern Society
Study of sex roles in the contemporary United States. Emphasis will be placed on changing patterns of socialization, cross-cultural comparisons and historical development, class, race and subcultural variations, the effects of urbanism and industrialization, the feminist movement and change toward redefinition of sex roles.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 325 - Sociology of the Family
An examination of contemporary family systems. Topics include mate selection, child-rearing techniques, marriage and parenting, contemporary trends including divorce and the one-parent family, the dual-career family, and nonmarital cohabitation.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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SOC 340 - Adapting to a Different Culture
This course is designed to teach individuals the importance of cultural differences, so that they can adapt to living, working and studying abroad or to living and working in a multicultural environment in the United States.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 350 - Research Methods
An introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics and its application to sociological research; focusing on measures of central tendency, variance, association, characteristics of normal curves, hypothesis testing, and principles of survey sampling.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 101 , SOC 102 , 317
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SOC 370 - Sociology of Religion
Religion is a social phenomeon and is in an interactive relationship with the other social units that constitute a society. The sociology of religion concerns itself with this phenomena and its relationship to the rest of society.
Lecture
3 Credits
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SOC 371 - Sociology of Sports
An analysis of the role of sports in society and how sports are a reflection of society. Areas examined include socialization, deviance, racism, sexism, economics, mass media and the future of American sports.
Lecture
3 Credits
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SOC 372 - Sociology of Popular Culture
This course will explore the wide ranging concept of popular culture and its significant place and role in people’s everyday lives. We will explore the intersections of popular culture with important sociological organizations such as the media, the culture industry, and religious institutions, in addition to the social topics such as race and ethnicity, social inequalities, and gender and sexuality. Specific readings and research will focus on today’s changing practices of cultural production and consumption in areas such as fashion and style, music and art, eating and food, tourism and globalism, and television, film and the internet.
Lecture
3 Credits
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SOC 408 - Juvenile Delinquency
A study of what constitutes delinquency, a survey of some of its causes, the effect of societal reaction, the problems of measurement, and prevention. An emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues and current research in such areas as gang behavior and methods of rehabilitation.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOC 410 - Penalogy and the Sociology of Corrections
An examination of the mechanisms by which societies deal with those whose behavior is criminal; a study of the development of corrections and how it is used in contemporary societies, focusing on various models of corrections and implications for the offender, the institution, and the social planner.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 411 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Deviance
An examination of deviance and social control; the ways in which they are defined according to the value systems of specific cultural and social groups in traditional society and in modern Western society.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 413 - Mass Media and Society
A study of the social consequences of living in the Mass Media Age of TV, radio, press, and cinema; focus on media’s impact on the family, religion, education and on political-economic institutions; problems of criminal violence, censorship, mass exploitation and manipulation.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 417 - Research Methods in Sociology
Study of the logic and methods of sociological research: practice in formulating problems; deriving hypotheses and creating research designs; an overview of data collection and treatment techniques, field observation and participation methods; principles of sampling, questionnaire construction, survey methods, documentary analysis and credibility of records.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 101 , SOC 102
Offered in the Spring Semester
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SOC 430 - Societies and Cultures of the Third World
This course begins with outlining the historical context within which the term “Third World” emerged. It then discusses the political economy of Third World countries taking the case of specific countries or communities. The theoretical debates on “Development” (which is at the forefront of defining nations and cultures as “Third World” societies) will also be discussed. In so doing, we will pay attention to the major global institutions, and agencies that devise, expound and implement the development discourse throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The course then delves into discussing how the process of globalization and its various facets (economic, political and cultural) affect the socio-cultural makeup of Third World countries. Finally, the course will discuss outstanding ethical (moral) and methodological issues (dilemmas) that social scientists (sociologists and anthropologists in particular) face when it comes to studying non-western cultures and societies, in general. It ends by discussing how these issues inform the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ in the social sciences.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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SOC 449 - Sociology Practicum
Opportunity for supervised field experience in the area of the student’s particular interest in such fields as criminology, ethnic studies, sociology of the family, urban society, etc.
Field Studies
3 Credits
Open to juniors only. Open to Seniors Only Offered in Fall & Spring
Department Consent Required
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SOC 450 - Senior Seminar
A coordinating seminar for advanced students who wish to participate in research projects in sociology or the social sciences. Socially relevant projects will be selected from the personal interests of students registered. Each student will submit a research paper summarizing his findings and analyzing them from a social science perspective only.
Seminar
3 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 350 , senior status and approval of department chair. Courses in statistics and research methods are strongly recommended as advance preparation.
Capstone Course. Open to Seniors Only. Written Intensive. Offered in the Spring Semester
Department Consent Required
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SOC 490 - Special Topics in Sociology
This course is designed to offer an opporunity to explore selected topics in sociology which are either not covered in the sociology curriculum or which will be covered in greater depth. Some of the topics which may be covered in the course are: “Religion and Society,” or “The Sociology of Political Economy.” This course may be repeated under a different topic for additional credit.
Lecture
3 Credits
Chairperson Approval Required Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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