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• SOCY 107: Issues of Race and Ethnicity

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course offers a critical examination of the social dynamics shaping race and ethnicity in the United States around issues of equity and inclusion. Students will examine both historic and contemporary problems and issues in the areas of racial and ethnic relations including the social construction of race, intersectionality, privilege, bias, institutional and individual-level discrimination, power relations and stratification. Emphasis is placed on the use of empirical evidence to evaluate popular beliefs regarding race and ethnicity.
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• SOCY 109: Special Topics in Sociology

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  A seminar focused on a specific topic within sociology that introduces students to the discipline, its way of thinking and methods of conducting research. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• SOCY 260: Big Ideas &Big Thinkers in Soc

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  Explores the Big Ideas that sociologists and other social scientists have developed to provide a scientific understanding of the social causes and consequences of human behavior. This is a required foundation course for Sociology majors and minors completed during the first 18 hours. This is a required foundation course for Sociology majors and minors completed during the first 18 hours.
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• SOCY 271: Intro to Social Research

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  An introduction to theories and philosophies of social research; tasks and issues in designing research; and sociological methods of data collection. This is a required foundation course for Sociology majors and minors completed during the first 18 hours. Students from other fields welcome. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• SOCY 272: Making Sense of Soc. Data

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  Introduction to widely used techniques for analyzing quantitative sociological data. Attention to statistical description and inference, presentation of data, interpreting statistical analyses, and using software for statistical analysis. This is a required course for Sociology majors and minors completed during the first 18 hours. Students from other fields welcome. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• SOCY 290: Field Experience

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course will be paired with appropriate sociology courses where the course curriculum will benefit from supplemental experiences outside the classroom or where more individualized instruction is necessary in the field. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• SOCY 320: Sociology of Mental Health and

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines mental health and illness using sociological theories and research. Students will learn how mental illness is defined and measured, examine the social factors that are associated with mental health and illness, and evaluate personal, community, and societal responses to mental illness. Students will explore mental illness as a social phenomenon and learn how mental illness is treated within the American health care system.
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• SOCY 321: Sociology of Education

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines educational systems from a sociological perspective. Students unpack their own school experience to better understand it in a social and cultural context and to explore how racial, class, and gender differences play out within the context of schools and school systems. The course provides students the tools to examine issues related to schools, educational policy, and the teaching profession.
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• SOCY 322: Sociology of Sexualities

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course uses a sociological perspective to examine human sexuality. Although biological explanations are often used to understand sexuality, this course focuses on how sexual attitudes and behaviors are shaped by society.
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• SOCY 323: Sociology of Sustain & Consump

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course explores ways that individuals, groups, and organizations express environmental desires and respond to environmental concerns. Students examine how environmental problems/issues are often structural and require individuals to become change agents.
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