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  • SOC 2630: Ethnic Minorities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores how ethnic minority populations navigate a range of political, economic, and legal circumstances in the United States. The class lectures and readings consider the diverse and sometimes overlapping experiences of different ethnic/racial groups and address subjects such as: Immigration, Law, Science, Environment, Education, Media, Food, and Social Justice. Applying a sociological lens, we will pay attention to the historical and contemporary ways that ideas about race and ethnicity are instituted, circulated, and made meaningful in society. We will also examine the intersections of class, gender, and sexuality in the lives of ethnic minority populations and will discuss how people work to eradicate inequalities.
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  • SOC 3020: Social Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This introductory course has three inter-related focal points: (1) interactive human experiences in social settings, (2) social influence and networking processes, and (3) social behavior in intimate relationships, groups, organizations, and diverse cultures. Using a sociological perspective, lectures and readings draw upon research findings from surveys, experiments, and observational studies to explore these three focal points together with specific applications in the areas of criminal justice, public health, and the human environment. Internet-based student research projects are integrated with the course's theoretical content.
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  • SOC 3041: Soc of Rock and Roll

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    It has been about 60 years since the popular musical genre called rock and roll or rock 'n' roll made its appearance. Some even argue that it can trace its roots further back still to the mid-19th century in Manhattan's Five Points district where African and European influences combined to shape a new musical style. Whatever its roots and early beginnings, from its inception, rock and roll music has been a distinctly American blend with elements of blues, rhythms and blues, country, folk and gospel music. This wedding of musical styles in U.S. history with concomitant implications for social relations-race-and classed-based at the outset-is the central, focus of this course. Fundamentally, this course is a historical, theoretical, and ultimately, sociological exploration of rock and roll music. The course will examine rock music from its roots, to its appearance it the late 1940s and early 1950s, to its evolution throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. Students will be invited to explore the socio-cultural aspects reflected in and affected by this popular music including race and class relationships as well as some of the ways that institutions help to reinforce and shape musical genres.
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  • SOC 3042: Sociology of Film

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The primary goal of this course is to use movies, documentaries, and docudramas to illuminate sociological phenomena and events in terms of sociological theory, concepts, and research, and thus help students to understand and apply core sociological concepts and theories and apply them to a number of movies watched in class and outside of class. Students will also evaluate movies in terms of the extent to which they uncritically transmit bias, stereotypes, ideology, and misinformation regarding gender, race ethnicity, poverty, and important social problems. The films addressed in the course will include dramas, comedies, foreign films, musicals, contemporary Hollywood films, older films, classics, foreign films, documentaries, silent films, animated films, and docudramas. In their analysis and criticism of movies, students will be encouraged to utilize what C. Wright Mills described as "The Sociological Imagination," to more deeply understand the relationship between individual well-being and the nature and structure of society.
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  • SOC 3043: Sociology Of Education

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Society of Education examines the structure and process of education in contemporary society in the United State. Topics include the contribution of sociology to understanding education and teaching; the relationship of education to other institutions such as the family, government, religion, and the economy; demographic changes that affect education; the effect of social class on student achievement and teaching; formal and informal positions, roles and processes in schools; and consideration of current issues such as school funding, compensatory and special education programs, race and gender issues, and educational reform movements. Aspects of charter and home schooling will also be examined, along with the potential future for education.
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  • SOC 3051: Digital Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    New information technologies based on digital platforms proliferate in our society. Such technologies now affect everyday life, groups, personal identity, culture, safety, and virtually all aspects of existence. From a sociological standpoint, The Digital Society is so pervasively a part of our world as to be almost invisible. Therefore, the necessity of recognizing the impacts of such technologies on us as individuals as well as the societal repercussions is of increasing importance. Emphasis in such a course of study will be placed on understanding the beginnings and development of digitalization, the internet in its many manifestations, online subcultures, gaming, privacy, information management, cyber-terrorism and bullying, business and corporate interface, identity, key individuals within the subject, relationships, criminal overtones, government interfaces, law, virtual worlds, and mass media.
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  • SOC 3061: Sociology of Sports

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores the ways in which sports are entangled in social, cultural, political, and economic forces operating at many different levels, from the social psychological levels to the global level. On one hand the course deals with the multiple ways in which individuals can participate in sports, including our participation in sport for purposes of recreation and leisure, sports participation as self-expression and person fulfillment, participation as spectators of sports and consumers of sports and sports organizations as particular representation of social organizations in general that can be analyzed in terms of goals and norms, social roles, manifest and latent functions, and replete with all the complex social dynamics that characterize other social organizations, such as stratification (e.g., by race, class, and gender). The course will also deal with the political economy of big time sports, including major university and professional sports and their contradictory relationships to their institutional settings (e.g., in institutions of higher learning and in communities).
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  • SOC 3065: LatterDay Saint Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is unique among the world religions, calling for a thorough exploration using sociological paradigms. In this course, aspects of Mormonism such as family, organization, education, politics, health practices, gender, stratification, culture, social control and deviance, identity, power, and other important principles are scrutinized with an academic framework, utilizing official LDS doctrine and applicable peer-reviewed publications. The course is designed to implement sociological tools and procedures to better comprehend and appreciate the distinctive nature and contribution of this religion.
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  • SOC 3111: Research Methods

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course introduces students to systematic methods that organize the research process and the multiple forms of research that it includes. The course explains the logic of research design, explores some common forms of data-gathering (such as interviews, surveys, observation, etc.), and links them to issues of data reporting. The course provides basic research skills for use to students as either original producers or critical consumers of social research.
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  • SOC 3112: Social Statistics

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The goal of this course is to enable students to both calculate and interpret statistical analyses within the context of social science research. The course introduces basic concepts of statistical analysis, both in theory (lectures) and practice (labs). The course begins with a discussion of descriptive statistics, including frequency distributions, graphs, and measures of central tendency and variability. Next, the course examines relationships between variables and measures of association, including bivariate regression and correlations. The course concludes with an introduction to inferential statistics, including t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-square.
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