SOCY 210
Social Problems
(3), Dr.
Jeanne Mekolichick,
TR 2:00-3:15
Have you ever gotten
frustrated by the current state of affairs? Ever wanted to voice your
protest about an issue but didn’t know how? Do you want to make a
difference—be the difference you want to see? I invite you to join me
for a critical look at how social problems are constructed in our media and
government and how we, as practical actors in society, can work to make
change in problems we see in society. You will be introduced to the
tools needed to make change and called upon to make change in a social
problem you care about.
SOCY 250
Social Inequality
(3), Dr. Beth Lyman, MWF 1:00-1:50
Did you know that the
richest one percent of U.S. households owns more than the combined wealth of
the bottom 90%? That American CEO's make more that 400 times as much
as the average worker, up from 110 times just 20 years ago? That the
wages of professional women are just 77% of those of professional men?
And that African Americans and Latinos are roughly three times as likely to
live in poverty as whites. In this class we will expose these and many
other inequalities, both in the US and globally, as well as examine the
social forces that create, maintain, and change inequalities among people.
SOCY 326
Men & Women in Society
(3), Dr. Carla Corroto, TR 12:30-1:45
Virtually every society known to us is founded upon assumptions of gender
difference and the politics of gender inequality.
Today, why are clothes marketed to girls and
women getting smaller and more revealing, while boys and men are wearing
baggy and more comfortable outfits? Sociology facilitates an analysis
of the cultural and social definitions of masculinity and femininity and
with this class, we will look at the consequences of such creations.
SOCY
341 Sociology of Health and Medicine
(3), Dr. Howard Schwartz, TR 5:00-6:15
Take the class from
the professor who wrote the book on Medical Sociology.
SOCY 365
Society and the Individual
(3), Dr. Carole
Seyfrit, TR 11:00-12:15
Why are you attracted to certain people and not others?
Why do people go along with the crowd even when
they know they shouldn’t? Are women really less aggressive than men?
Why are we so influenced by others?
This class takes a sociological look at social
psychology and uses a variety of lectures, class exercises, and other
activities to explore these and other questions related to the ways that
social interaction affects individual attitudes and behaviors.
(Note:
formerly SOCY 265 – cannot be taken if you
completed SOCY 265.)
SOCY 390
Sociology of Sport
(3), Dr. Carla Corroto, TR 2:00-3:15
The goal of this
course is to focus on the “deeper game” associated with sports, the game
through which sports becomes part of our social and cultural worlds.
When our favorite team wins we exclaim, “WE won.” Alternatively, when
the same team loses we utter, “THEY lost.” What does placing so much
value on athletics reveal about U.S. values? This class is more than a
game.
“Great Spirit, all things belong to you--the two-leggeds,
the four-leggeds, the wings of the air and all green things that live.”
“And God said, let us make man in our image
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
What
do these two statements--one from a Sioux holy man, one from the Christian
holy book--tell us about how these two religions perceive and treat the
environment?
For our class project each student will
research “Religion and the Environment” for a particular religion of choice.
SOCY 443
Deviance
(3), Dr. Roby Page,
MWF 11:00-11:50
“Why be normal?” some like to ask. We’ve all been deviant now and then, for
better or worse. Why do people step outside the boundaries and deviate?
From criminals in the streets and criminals in the suites… to drug abusers
and sexual deviants… to simply not fitting in, we’ll look at how and why
people stray from conformity.
SOCY 444 Juvenile Delinquency
(3), Dr. Roby Page, TR 12:30-1:45
Is juvenile
delinquency on the rise? What causes delinquency? What can be done
about it? We’ll look at such pressing concerns as gangs, drugs,
bullying, and shootings. And we’ll examine the persistent question of
how juveniles should be treated by the justice system.
Can surveys be sexy? Oh yes they can! Survey Research Methods
invites students to engage in the world of research by selecting their own
topic, individually creating and administering their own survey using the
cutting-edge online survey software program,
Qualtrics,
analyzing the data using a worldwide
leading software program,
SPSS,
then gaining experience in writing and
verbally presenting a report of findings at the Radford University
Graduate/Undergraduate Forum. If you are looking for portable skills
to add to your resume, so you can hit the job market ahead of your peers,
this class is for you.
Want some experience to take into the job market?
The Organizational Research class functions as a consulting group for
selected clients. This spring the Organizational Research class will
team up with RU’s Sustainability Coordinator, Julio Stephens, to create a
sustainability survey for the RU student body to assess attitude and
behavioral change in environmental awareness and sustainability efforts.
For
our second project, we will be working with Steven Nape, Vice Provost for
Enrollment Planning and Management, examining existing data to study
retention at RU.
SOCY 493
Practicum in Sociology/ANTH 461 Applied Anthropology Experience,
Dr. Melinda Wagner, R 12:30-3:15
Prerequisites for the Floyd County High School Place-Based Education Oral History Project: Maturity, a Desire to Mentor high school students, and Permission of Instructor (See Dr. Wagner). Mentors are: Motivating Engaging Negotiating Teaching Organizing Role modeling.
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10 November 2009