Sociology

This course provides an introduction to the nature of humans and their development and relationship to the physical and social environment today and in the past. The class surveys the major subfields of anthropology, cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.

This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to identifying and understanding the issues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the United States. Using a variety of lenses and methodologies (e.g. sociological, economic, historical, and psychological), students will analyze the relationship between the individual, society, and culture within America and how that relationship has created, maintained, and challenged inequality.

This course will acquaint the student with basic concepts and methods used in the study of sociology. Materials will cover major social differences, such as class, race, sex, age, and deviant behavior. Institutions of social life, such as family, education, religion, power, and work will be examined. AAS: Business elective.

The course will present concepts and methods of sociology and will require an analysis of current issues. The student will learn to select appropriate data from personal experience, journalistic sources, and sociological materials in order to critique and analyze issues.

This course is a comparative analysis of racial and ethnic groups; examining elements of group identity, social movements, government policy, individual and institutional discrimination, and related social problems.

This course examines the changing nature of the family in America. It considers how mates are selected, the nature of relationships within marriage, and the process and effects of ending or altering the marital situation.