SOCI 351 – Crimes Against the Environment
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: An in-depth exploration of the types of environmental crime activities, including major crime cases, their perpetrators and victims, and responses given to the commission of these crimes by society. Theories explaining the presence and prevalence, as well as the methods for documenting and studying […]
SOCI 350 – Research Design and Analysis
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
SOCI 349 – Hate Crimes and Terrorism
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A critical examination of hate crimes and terrorism, including their similarities and differences, types of perpetrators and victims, perpetrator activities and tactics used, and societal impacts, as well as explanations for why these crimes occur and approaches used to impede these crimes. Major hate […]
SOCI 348 – Family Violence
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: An exploration of family violence from a sociological and criminological lens. Specific types of violence that occur in the family setting (spousal abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, and dating violence) are examined, including patterns based on gender, social class, race, age, culture, and religion. […]
SOCI 347 – Alcohol,Drugs and Society
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Drug use/abuse as a social phenomenon, with attention given to illegal drugs, legal drugs and alcohol. While there will be an emphasis on theoretical application, patterns of drug use/abuse among various populations (race, class, sex, education, etc.) will be examined, as well as society’s […]
SOCI 345 – Social Deviance
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
SOCI 344 – Violence in Society
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Exploration of the various forms of violence, with attention given to how the reporting of and reactions to violence are shaped by the way it is defined and measured; causes of violence are framed in terms of culture and social structure.
SOCI 343 – Juvenile Delinquency
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Critical examination of alternative theoretical explanations of juvenile delinquency and the various programs developed to prevent and control, with consideration of their assumptions, arguments, and research support.
SOCI 342 – Social Deviance
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduces several theoretical perspectives from which deviant behavior is analyzed, following a basic distinction between “kinds of people” theories versus explanations focused upon society and culture. Current research on several forms of deviance – violence against persons, sexuality, substance use, organizational crime, economic crime.
SOCI 340 – Society & the Individual
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
SOCI 331HH – Environment, Power, & Opportunity
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
SOCI 331H – Environment, Power,& Opportunity
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: