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PSYC 364 - Psychology of Women
Theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of the psychology of women; the effects of social context and the interplay of gender, race, class, and culture on psychological development, with special attention to where and how women fit into the world including the ways in which they have been and continue to be marginalized in various cultures.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Cross-listed with GEN 364
3 credits
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PSYC 368 - Psychological Assessment
Provides an introduction to psychological assessment and measurement theory by examining the measurement of cognitive abilities, personality, and preferences. Includes development, administration, and interpretation of psychological assessment instruments.
Pre-req: PSYC 214
3 credits
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PSYC 372 - Abnormal Psychology
Study of the description, causes, and treatments of dysfunctional behaviors; includes both clinical and empirical research perspectives.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 376 - Clinical Communication
Emphasis on examining the change agents in psychotherapy and learning how to develop help-intended communication skills through the use of miniature mutual support groups. Analysis of communication using a verbal response mode classification system. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Co-req: PSYC 376L
4 credits
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PSYC 376L - Clinical Communication Lab
Co-req: PSYC 376
0 credits
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PSYC 382 - Health Psychology
A study of the relationships among mental processes, behavior, and physical health, with an emphasis on the role of psychology in prevention and treatment of illness as well as promoting optimum health.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 396 - Research Practicum
Opportunity to learn and apply research skills by assisting faculty on research. May include research design, subject recruitment, data collection, data analysis, and writing up findings. May be repeated for credit
Pre-req: PSYC 100
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 415 - Literature Review Seminar
Seminar designed to guide the student in choosing a viable literature review topic, conducting an exhaustive literature search, and writing a scholarly literature review paper (using APA 6th edition format) on a topic of the student’s choosing.
Pre-req: PSYC 212 or PSYC 214 , and Senior standing
Co-req: PSYC 499
3 credits
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PSYC 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 499 - Senior Presentation in Psychology
Fulfills the Senior Presentation requirement of the college Liberal Education program. Students will prepare and make a presentation based on their Literature Review paper from 415.
Pre-req: PSYC 212 or PSYC 214 , and Senior standing
Co-req: PSYC 415
1 credits
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Religious Studies |
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REL 101 - Religious Diversity in America
An introduction to religious studies focusing on field work in the greater Los Angeles, which some experts claim is the most religiously diverse environment in the world. Attention to traditional Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religions; recent immigrant traditions; religious innovation and change; and the implications of religious pluralism.
3 credits
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REL 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 200 - Exploring Religion
An introduction to religious perspectives on human issues, practices, and institutions such as journey, conversion, community, and death. Various interpretive theories are applied to monographs, novels, memoirs, and films.
3 credits
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REL 201 - Monotheisms
An introductory survey of major texts, beliefs, and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
3 credits
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REL 202 - Religions of Asia
An introductory survey of the major texts, beliefs, and practices of religions across Asia, from India to Japan. Religions covered include Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.
3 credits
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REL 210 - Introduction to Biblical Literature
An introduction to biblical literature and the social contexts in which the Hebrew Bible and New Testament arose. Emphasis on contemporary critical methods used to understand the Bible.
3 credits
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REL 216 - Literature of the Bible
A study of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, with an emphasis on biblical texts both as literature in their own right and as sources for other literature, art, and music.
Cross-listed with ENGL 222
3 credits
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REL 222 - Judaism
A survey of the major issues, themes, and practices of the Jewish religion and civilization. The Jewish tradition’s place in the development of western civilization as seen in historical overview: from biblical times to rabbinic and medieval times to the modern era.
3 credits
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REL 225 - Global Christianities I
This course explores how Christianity emerged from and was shaped by diverse communities with contesting perspectives about Christian beliefs and practices. Examines aspects of the ecclesial and everyday history of Christianity by highlighting various Christian peoples and cultures from different historical, social, and global contexts, ranging from the origins of Christianity through the 15th century and paying particular attention to Christianity in the Middle East, Mediterranean, Africa, and Asia. Addresses global issues - the relationships between religion and gender, politics, and economics, for exmaple - and considers those issues as equally important factors in the evolution of Christianity.
3 credits
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REL 226 - Global Christianities II
This course explores how Christianity continued to evolve across diverse communities with contesting perspectives about Christian beliefs and practices. Examines aspects of the ecclesial and everyday history of Christianity by highlighting various Christian peoples and cultures from different historical, social, and global contexts, ranging from the 15th century to the present and paying particular attention to Christianity in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Addresses global issues - the relationships between religion and gender, colonialist as well as freedom movements, war, and national identity, for example - and considers those issues as equally important factors in the evolution of Christianity.
3 credits
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REL 235 - Arabs and Muslims I
The course traces the rise of Islam from Mohammed to the Ottoman Empire, along with analyses of the contemporary scene in the Arab World. Two semester course sequence
Cross-listed with INTD 225
3 credits
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REL 236 - Arabs and Muslims II
The course traces the rise of Islam from Mohammed to the Ottoman Empire, along with analyses of the contemporary scene in the Arab World. Two semester course sequence
Cross-listed with INTD 226
3 credits
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REL 240 - Theology Through Film
Contemporary cinema as a secular medium for raising theological questions and for exploring theological visions. Films by Spielberg, Allen, Eastwood, Ashby, and others are viewed and analyzed.
Co-req: REL 240L
3 credits
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REL 240L - Theology Through Film Lab
This course is the required lab (or film viewing session) for the course Theology Through Film.
Co-req: REL 240
0 credits
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REL 244 - Muscular Faith
This course examines the histories of several established religions’ interactions with sports: how some moved from a rejection of sports to their toleration and finally to their embrace, and how others have affirmed sports as a means of discipline and a physical expression of faith. The course also investigates how and why athletes align their athletic skills, opportunities, and success with their faith. Finally, the course explores how faith-based sports organizations often function as spiritual communities, such as quasi-churches or auxiliary congregations (like the Christian Deer Hunters Association).
3 credits
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REL 248 - Myanmar: History, Religion, Politics
In this course, we will develop a complex picture of Myanmar’s religious and political cultures over time. Readings and videos will draw from the disciplines/fields of history, religious studies, political science, and anthropology and sociology. Attention will be given to the early and pre-colonial foundations of the country; life during British colonial expansion and rule; the cultural and political affects of long-term closure under modern military rule; the global interest and involvement, especially on the part of China and the West, in the recent political transformations and the “re-turn” to democratic rule; the continuing problems of centralization; and the conundrums of religious and ethnic violence and tension that have racked the country from time to time. Throughout, we will investigate social, political and economic roles of the country’s religious cultures, especially but not limited to Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Students will also learn about the interactive feedback between the local and global forces that have produced Myanmar’s religious and political cultures over time.
3 credits
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REL 251 - Monks, Nuns and Ascetics
This course examines theological, practical, and literary traditions of asceticism in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Topics include men’s and women’s disciplinary and visionary practices, the roles of ascetics in politics, and engendering religious life.
Cross-listed with GEN 251
3 credits
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REL 253 - Women and Religion
An introductory examination of religious definitions of women, of women’s religious experiences, and of feminist theologies and transformation of religious traditions. Attention to course topics in cross-cultural perspective.
Cross-listed with GEN 253
3 credits
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REL 255 - Women and U.S. Liberation Theologies
This course examines major theological themes in Christianity, and the role that critical theoretical and religious analyses of gender, race, class, sexuality, ecology, culture, and nationality play in re-articulating those themes within women’s liberation theologies in the United States. More specifically, this course explores criticisms and reconstructions of conventional Christian beliefs and practices regarding the divine, salvation, the human person, and ritual. To do so, we will engage in a critical and comparative study of major works in U.S. white feminist, African-American womanist, Latina feminist or mujerista, and Asian American feminist theologies. Through our study of women’s multicultural theologies within U.S. Christianity, we will consider what distinguishes and what is shared by them, as well as interrogate our own understandings and those of the theologians about the relationships between religion and women’s oppression as well as liberation.
Cross-listed with GEN 255 .
3 credits
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REL 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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REL 311 - Life and Teachings of Jesus
This course explores the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in early Christian canonical and non-canonical gospels. Examines significant religious, socio-cultural, and political issues that shaped early Christian communities, beliefs, and texts. Topics include gospel as a literary and religious genre; theories and methods of textual interpretation; the canonization of sacred texts; men’s and women’s religious leadership; and competing understandings of the divine, salvation, and religious life and practice.
3 or 4 credits
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REL 313 - Heroes, Gods and Gurus
An exploration of the complex and amazing world of classic Hindu literature, with a focus on either the Mahabharata or Ramayana (the focus alternates each semester the course is taught). We examine either the Mahabharata’s or Ramayana’s basic story and characters and seek to learn about their cultural context and impact, across centuries of interpretation and practice.
Cross-listed with ENGL 22
3 credits
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REL 321 - Religion in America
Distinct religious movements, themes, and personalities in American history before 1870. Topics include native American religions, Puritanism, California missions, revivalism, frontier religion, and transcendentalism.
3 credits
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REL 330 - Buddha and Buddhism
A study of major aspects of the history and practice of Buddhist traditions throughout Asia as well as the West. Students learn, for example, about Buddhism in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, and the United States. Field trips, videos.
3 credits
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REL 331 - Islam
An introductory thematic survey of Islam with some attention to the historical development of the tradition. Principal themes include: the Qur’an, ritual practice, Islamic society, mysticism, the diversity of the Islamic world, Islam and modern politics. Readings from a variety of perspectives. Field trip.
3 credits
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REL 332 - Looking for Islam: Morocco
Taught in an immersion setting (in Morocco) the course explores the ways in which Islam emerges within one particular social and cultural setting. It focuses both on the varieties of religious expression within a single culture, and on its forms of expression in everyday life. In the process we examine apparently non-religious institutions, such as family structures, art and architecture, urban design, political organization, etc. in order to understand the intersection of cultural practices, political and economic realities, and religious systems.
Pre-req: REL 331 or INTD 225
3 credits
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REL 334 - Religions of China & Japan
Investigates religious traditions as they have developed in China and Japan. Topics include “popular” religion; classical and contemporary teachings and practices of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism (especially Zen); the challenge of Communism to religion in China; the rise new religious movements in contemporary Japan; Christianity in East Asia (especially Japan); and Buddhism in the West (with specific attention to the United States).
3 credits
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REL 340 - Global Ethics
An examination of contemporary ethical issues from theological and secular perspectives. Topics include environmental issues, world hunger, poverty and inequality, nuclear arms.
3 credits
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REL 341 - New Religious Movements in Southern California
An examination of how California’s cultures spawn and embrace emergent religious groups. Representative NRMs include both innovated and transnational religious groups.
3 to 4 credits
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REL 342 - Sound & Religious Experience
Focuses on the cultural uses of sound and the physiological processes that lead to religious experience. Emphasis on the role of chant and trance in inducing religious states.
Cross-listed with ANTH 342
3 credits
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REL 345 - Jesus on Film
An examination of various films about the life of Jesus, ranging from traditional portrayals to provocative ones. Emphasis on how aesthetic, political, social, and theological dispositions affect the portrayals. Selected films include foreign, epic, and musical presentations.
3 credits
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REL 347 - Sport, Play, and Ritual
This course attempts to study the role of sport, play and leisure in the religious life of the individual and the community at large. ome of the important questions to be investigated are: What role does sports play in spiritual life? What does this mean to comtemporary religion?
Cross-listed with KNS 388
4 credits
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REL 348 - Ritual Studies
An integration of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on ritual as sacred performance. It examines the connection between practice and belief in a series of cross-cultural case studies and is organized thematically around such issues as sacrifice, death and dying, food, the body, and lifestage events.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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REL 349 - Religious Fundamentalisms
An examination of the roots and expansion of religious fundamentalisms throughout the modern world. Topics include Protestant fundamentalism in England and United States, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and fundamentalism in Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sikh traditions, among others.
3 credits
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REL 350 - Latin American Liberation Theologies
An introduction to the understanding of justice as the central theological concern for the oppressed peoples of Latin America. Distinctive features of the cultures and theologies in different countries are examined.
3 credits
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REL 351 - Public & Popular Religion
This course examines religious communities and themes in recent U.S. history, society, and politics since 1870. Topics include civil religion, Mormonism, African American as well as Latino/a traditions, religious approaches to prosperity and poverty, the rise of religious fundamentalisms, the roles of women in public religion, and intersections between religion and politics, especially the U.S. presidency.
3 credits
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REL 352 - Pilgrimage
A study of pilgrimage as a cross-cultural phenomenon. Attention to the history, literature, ritual, and social processes of religious journeys of several religious traditions, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
3 credits
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REL 353 - Person, Cosmos, Community
An examination of selected ways in which humans have conceptualized the universe and how these various conceptions influence different understandings of humankind’s place within the cosmos, prescriptions for human social order, and attitudes toward the non-human world. Readings concern narratives of creation from various religious traditions, accounts of religious rituals closely tied to myths about cosmic origins, and a range of materials dealing with ethics and understanding others, drawn especially from the lives and work of contemporary Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, and Feminists.
3 credits
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REL 361 - Ways of Understanding Religion
Provides students with insight into how modern scholars have explained religion. Perspectives entertained include the history of religions, psychology, philosophy, theology, sociology, and anthropology.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
3 credits
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REL 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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REL 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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REL 499 - Senior Intellectual Memoir and Portfolio
1 credits
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Sociology |
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SOC 180 - Applied Community Development Workshop
This course teaches students to apply ethnographic and social science perspectives and methods to sociocultural problems. Students will learn: Evaluation and introductory ethnographic research, evidence-based decision-making and policy advocacy, the role of research and reporting in organizations and in sociocultural change, and research ethics and professionalism. Students will have the opportunity take part in an existing applied research program with a collaborating organization and/or to practice their skills in the Whittier College community. The class is based on the premise that research best serves the community when it is grounded in social science, linked to community organizations, and guided by a commitment to social justice.
Cross-listed with ANTH 180
3 credits
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SOC 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 205 - Women and U.S. Politics
Examines the changing role of women in American politics and society, including the suffrage movement, the ERA, work and career patterns.
Cross-listed with GEN 205
3 credits
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SOC 214 - Statistics
Data analysis in the social sciences; analysis of distributions, central tendency, variability, correlation, and parametric and non-parametric statistical tests; use of computer packages including SPSS.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above, and MATH 076 , MATH 079 , or a score of 2 or higher on the Math Placement Exam
Co-req: SOC 214L
Cross-listed with PSYC 214
3 credits
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SOC 214L - Statistics - SPSS
Co-req: SOC 214
Cross-listed with PSYC 214L
1 credits
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SOC 240 - Social Problems: Comparative & Global Perspectives
A comparative study of the social construction of social problems and their solutions in the U.S. and internationally. We will examine how particular conditions/arrangements and behaviors become recognized as problems in the contemporary U.S. and in other countries.
3 credits
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SOC 241 - Self and Society
The course will examine how the social structures of society shape individuals and groups and in turn, how individuals and groups contribute to making, reproducing, and/or changing those social structures. The course will focus on the how of sociology - the methods of inquiry and analysis that sociologists use to arrive at explanations of social behavior. Major course concentrations include: social integration and control; gender and sexuality; inequality and stratification; race/ethnicity; collective action.
3 credits
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SOC 242 - Crime, Justice, and Rebellion
This course will teach the sociological analysis of criminal behavior in relation to social structure and the criminalization process. The class will situate crime, whether in the form of adult offending, delinquency, or white collar crime in relation to the family, peer groups, community, and institutional structures. Inequalities and differences along the lines of race/ethnicity, class, and gender will be a major focus. In addition the course will study the different components of the criminal justice system including the emergence and interpretation of criminal laws, the contemporary roles and functions of the police, criminal courts and correctional institutions. The class will finally examine how populations counteract and resist social control efforts.
3 credits
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SOC 243 - Popular Culture
This course is a basic introduction to the discipline of sociology. We focus on how to think sociologically, using the following related questions to guide us throughout the course: What is the relationship of the individual to society? In other words, how do societies make individuals, and how do individuals make societies? What are the social structures that comprise our society? How do these structures both change and stay the same over time? Instead of surveying the sub-disciplines within sociology, the course uses a variety of historical and contemporary popular culture forms as the means to allow students to practice sociological thinking, which is a life skill you can take with you beyond the classroom. Along the way, we make use of the ideas and research of sociologists in order to make the connection between theory, practice, and our own lives.
3 credits
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SOC 244 - Social Class and Inequality
This course will examine a range of explanations of the persistence of different forms of inequality (primarily, but not exclusively) in the US. The course will focus on topic areas as case studies - for example education, labor markets, family policy, etc. - to illuminate the fundamental processes and relations of power that produce, reproduce and challenge the structural integrity. Within each topic area we will pay careful attention to race/ethnicity, gender, social class and sexuality as these structures mark main axes of power and social inequality. Finally, we will examine solutions to inequality.
3 credits
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SOC 245 - Green Politics
This course examines the intersections among ecological, social/cultural, economic and political processes and practices that have produced contemporary ecological crises (climate change, deforestation, air and water pollution, urban sprawl, etc.). We will investigate the complex processes that produce environmental problems, examine how people are differently affected by these problems, and we will look at how people can act to solve these problems. The course will emphasize that environmental issues are almost always social issues: the ecological crises we face are lodged in complex relations of power; embedded in daily practices; bound up with cultural values and priorities; and are inexorably linked with what counts as a pressing issue as well as the tools selected to solve problems. Environmental problems also reflect existing social relations of power and inequality. We do not all pay the same price or pay in the same way, nor do we all have an equal hand in their promulgation.
Cross-listed with ENST 245
3 credits
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SOC 270 - Death, Dying & Bereavement
Explores historical and cultural variations in attitudes and practices surrounding death, dying and bereavement. We examine major causes of death across age and other social groups, social inequality related to death and dying, individual and social practices of grieving, and the ethics of dying in an age of technology. We study death-related issues both at the level of social organization and in terms of how they affect people at varying stages of the life course.
Cross-listed with SOWK 270
4 credits
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SOC 287 - Workshop in Urban Studies
The workshop uses Los Angeles and Tijuana as settings for studying urban spatial and social organization, with special attention to the design and use of public space. It examines the economic, demographic, and cultural linkages between these two areas and locates each city in terms of current global economic, social, and cultural transformations.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
4 credits
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SOC 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 300 - The Sociological Imagination
The primary goal of this course is to ensure that students develop a sociological imagination - that is, the ability to pose sociological questions and to find ways to investigate those questions. The course will be organized around three important sociological monographs – book length studies – which will examine race, class, and gender. We will spend the semester meticulously breaking apart these studies so that students begin to understand the process of conducting sociological research.
Pre-req: One 200-level SOC course and either ANTH 180 or SOC 180
Cross-listed with GEN 300
3 credits
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SOC 302 - Social Theory in Social Context
An examination of major figures and debates in the history of sociological theory. Original works of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and more recent writers will be read in conjunction with materials on the historical settings in which they wrote.
Pre-req: SOC 300
3 credits
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SOC 310 - Approaches to Social Research
Techniques for basic and applied social research. Research skills will be developed with the complementary use of informant interviews, observations, surveys, and documents in addressing theoretical issues in the social sciences and practical applications. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: SOC 300
Co-req: SOC 310L
4 credits
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SOC 310L - Approaches to Social Research Lab
Co-req: SOC 310
0 credits
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SOC 311 - Field Research: Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Introduction to ethnographic field research as a general tool for understanding and communicating with people, especially those whose culture is different from one’s own. Teaches the perspectives, aims, and skills of field research through the use of (1) films and written materials that describe field research experiences and which record the results of such research and (2) a series of fieldwork exercises. Focus in on the nature and meaning of cultural diversity and its implications for cross-cultural communication.
Pre-req: ANTH 210 or SOC 300
Cross-listed with ANTH 311
3 or 4 credits
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SOC 346 - Social Power & Social Control
This course explores how social theorists understand the forms and exercise of power. It will draw on Marxian, Weberian, and Foucauldian analyses of power, as well as theories of race, gender, and sexuality in order to offer both complementary and competing understandings of power.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 348 - Food and Food Systems
This course approaches food - something Americans often take for granted - as a complex social system. We will investigate the social relationships and modes of organization that constitute the economic, political, environmental and social contexts for the development, production, distribution, promotion and consumption of food in contemporary society. Thus the course engages topics such as genetically modified food, the politics of food regulation, industrial agriculture, alternative agriculture and/or sustainable development.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
Cross-listed with ENST 348
3 credits
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SOC 354 - Political Sociology
This course is a study of power in the institutions of society, focusing on the state, groups that compete for control of the state, ideologies of state legitimacy, and the relationship of the state and capital. We will also look at how and why states and policies change over time. We will necessarily examine the ways in which race and ethnicity shape and are shaped by their interaction with the state.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 355 - Migration & Immigrant Communities
Social, economic, and political analyses of migrants and immigrant communities. Will study motives and experiences of migrants, effects on migrant sending and migrant receiving countries, assimilation, transnationalism, and multiculturalism.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 357 - Sociology of Development
Considers development issues related to economics, politics, inequality, human rights, gender, and environment and examines modernization, dependency, and world-system approaches to the theoretical understanding these issues.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
Cross-listed with ENST 357 and INTD 357
4 credits
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SOC 360 - Latin American Social Movements
This course surveys a select number of 20th and 21st century social movements in Latin America to examine how they emerged, whom they represented, and what impacts they had on the larger society.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 370 - Environmental Sociology
This course focuses on sociological investigations of contemporary environmental/ ecological issues. From a sociological standpoint it is axiomatic that most of the ecological/environmental problems and crisis that we currently face are at their root social problems. This is not to minimize or erase the very real biogeochemical processes that have been disrupted, corrupted and eradicated by human actions; rather this perspective highlights those human actions and their outcomes. This course will be project-based and organized around one or more case studies to introduce students to the relevant academic literature and to emphasize data analysis and concrete problem solving.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
Cross-listed with ENST 370
3 credits
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SOC 377 - Comparative Urban Development
A comparative examination of urbanization in varying historical and geographical settings and in the light of major theories of urban growth, organization, and community.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 378 - Work and Occupations
Examines how jobs, occupations, and industries come to be characterized by sex segregation and inequality; how work organizations become gendered and how they are sustained as such; and the consequences of these processes. Considers ways in which organizational members–employers, managers, customers, co-workers–draw on, exploit, and subvert prevailing axes of stratification.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
Cross-listed with GEN 378
3 credits
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SOC 386 - Racial and Ethnic Relations
An examination of central theories and concepts in the field. Specific attention will be paid to topics such as the historical emergence of minorities, ethnic solidarity, and racism. Contemporary trends in the dynamics of intergroup relations in southern California, the United State and abroad will be considered.
Pre-req: Two 200-level SOC courses
3 credits
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SOC 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 407 - Senior Seminar A
This course is offered in the fall for senior sociology majors only. The course supports students working on their senior projects by providing a designated time and place each week to discuss their research proposals with peers and professors in the department. This course is required and is a prerequisite for SOC 408 Senior Seminar B .
Pre-req: SOC 300 , SOC 302 , SOC 310 and Senior standing
3 credits
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SOC 408 - Senior Seminar B
A capstone writing intensive course exploring application of sociological knowledge and skills to the production of public scholarship.
Pre-req: SOC 407
3 credits
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SOC 412 - Preceptorship
A one semester course designed to engage students in the theory and practice of teaching sociology. This course is appropriate for students intending to teach secondary school or enter a graduate program in sociology. Students participating in the preceptorship will work closely with the faculty teaching introductory courses.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 to 3 credits
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SOC 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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SOC 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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Social Work |
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SOWK 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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SOWK 240 - Introduction to Social Work
Students explore the process and concepts of generalist social work practice with an emphasis on social and economic justice. We examine the history of social work and the importance of ethical practice with clients and community partners. This course is a prerequisite for upper division social work courses and is required for admission to the social work major. Service Learning Course.
Co-req: INTD 100
3 credits
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SOWK 241 - Introduction to Social Work
Students explore the process and concepts of generalist social work practice with an emphasis on social and economic justice. We examine the history of social work and the importance of ethical practice with clients and community partners. This course is a prerequisite for upper division social work courses, is required for admission to the social work major, and meets the liberal education requirement for the Writing Intensive Course (COM2).
Pre-req: INTD 100
3 credits
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SOWK 245 - Legal Issues in Social Work
The course explores legal and ethical issues in social work practice settings. Students learn about laws that both enhance and deter the well-being of clients. Students also learn to analyze the implication of laws and policies on social well-being. The course includes activities such as visiting homeless court, training for legal advocacy for citizens residing in Skid Row, and other opportunities for legal advocacy in the Los Angeles region.
4 credits
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SOWK 270 - Death, Dying & Bereavement
Explores historical and cultural variations in attitudes and practices surrounding death, dying and bereavement. We examine major causes of death across age and other social groups, social inequality related to death and dying, individual and social practices of grieving, and the ethics of dying in an age of technology. We study death-related issues both at the level of social organization and in terms of how they affect people at varying stages of the life course.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
Cross-listed with SOC 270
4 credits
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