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  • SOC 3501: Social Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010G and University Advanced Standing. Examines individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in social contexts. Analyzes human behaviors from a sociological perspective. Includes the history of sociological social psychology, perspectives and research methods in sociological social psychology, the social psychology of stratification, self and identity, socialization over the life course, social psychology of deviance, mental health and illness, social attitudes, sociology of emotions and relationships, and collective behavior.
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  • SOC 3510: Sociology of Work and Occupations

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade, SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Examines work and occupations in historical and contemporary contexts. Examines current employment patterns and trends, the nature of labor markets and jobs, the gendered arrangements of paid and unpaid work, the organization and management of work. Explores transformations in occupational settings resulting from changes in economy and labor market. Focuses on the macro level (the effects of advancements in technology, bureaucratization and unionization on the division of labor), the micro-level (job satisfaction and alienation), and on the interface between macro and micro levels (job prestige, rewards, effects of ethnicity, age, and other characteristics).
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  • SOC 3520: Environmental Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010G and ENGL 2010 with a C+ grade or higher and University Advanced Standing. Explores in detail several different approaches to understanding the social causes of and solutions to environmental degradation. Discusses the development of a wide variety of theory-based critiques of various social institutions (e.g., economic, political, religious) and how these institutions' values can create and perpetuate unsustainable practices.
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  • SOC 3560: Sociology of Deviance

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the strengths and weaknesses of several different definitions of deviance. Explains deviant behavior from a variety of theoretical perspectives and summarizes the existing data on several different forms of deviance, i.e., individual violations of social mores, street level crime, corporate crime, and crimes committed by nation states.
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  • SOC 3690: Internet Technology and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005), SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Traces the history of new media through a sociological approach. Utilizes sociological theories of new media and technological change, (internet, automation, digital turn, etc.) and their impact on identities and institutions. Refers to sociological theories to explain the pervasive presence of new media in society as well as our use of them.
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  • SOC 3700: Social Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher), SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Examines social stratification from a sociological perspective. Discusses social structure within American society. Analyzes how various resources are distributed unevenly based on gender, race, and social class.
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  • SOC 3750G: Sociology of Aging

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores sociological theories in aging and the life course. Examines how aging is experienced at the personal, group, and larger social levels of society. Investigates how various life transitions and social roles are experienced among older adults, including intimate relationships, work and retirement, health and medical care, politics, and more. Analyzes how aging and aging-related social issues intersect with various social constructions and institutions in the U.S. and globally.
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  • SOC 3800: Animals and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the roles that non-human animals play in human societies. Utilizes sociological approaches to study human-animal relationships and to critically evaluate the ideologies which justify these relationships. Pays particular attention to human relationships in North America to domestic pets, livestock, and wildlife.
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  • SOC 3850: Rural Life--Global and Local

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ or higher, SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Introduces rural life across the globe. Discusses the views of agrarian writers and thinkers. Explores rural values, rural communities, rural race relations, and rural poverty. Evaluates how the rural perspective provides a platform for critique of modern societal transformations in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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  • SOC 4000: Classical Social Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade), SOC 1010G, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the contributions of key classical theorists to contemporary sociology. Applies classical social theories to real-life scenarios. Provides potential solutions to social problems while challenging students to think critically.
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