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SOC 3890 Advanced Honors Experience in Sociology Prerequisites: Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated SOC course. Description: A supplemental Honors experience in Sociology to partner concurrently with designated upper-division SOC course(s). This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s). Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology General Education and other Course Attributes: Honors Credit SOC 3953 Applied Sociology Prerequisites: Sociology majors or consent of instructor or adviser. Description: Application of sociological theory and methods to various job situations. Preparation for field experience in a variety of work settings. Previously offered as SOC 3952. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology SOC 3993 Sociology of Aging (DS) Description: Sociological problems of aging, including the analysis of the behavior of the aged within the framework of social institutions. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology General Education and other Course Attributes: Diversity, Social & Behavioral Sciences SOC 4023 Juvenile Corrections and Treatment Strategies Prerequisites: SOC 3523 or SOC 4333. Description: The juvenile justice system, emphasizing the juvenile court, diversion and youth service bureaus as well as the more traditional training schools and foster homes. Experimental treatment strategies with institutionalized delinquents. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology SOC 4033 Comparative Perspectives of Criminal Justice Systems (IS) Description: Study of criminal justice systems in different nation states and culture context from a different comparative perspective. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension, Social & Behavioral Sciences

SOC 4043 Gender and Work (DS) Prerequisites: One upper division course.

Description: Consideration of unpaid, paid and volunteer work and gender differences. Linkages between economy, work, and family with examples from United States and less developed countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology General Education and other Course Attributes: Diversity, Social & Behavioral Sciences SOC 4103 The Death Penalty in America (S) Description: This course is designed to examine problems and issues related to the death penalty in the United States, including the history of capital punishment, important Supreme Court decisions, how the various jurisdictions (state and federal) deal with capital cases, the comparative costs of incarceration and execution, miscarriages of justice in capital cases and how the criminal justice responds to these issues. May not be used for degree credit with AMST 4103. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology General Education and other Course Attributes: Social & Behavioral Sciences SOC 4133 Social Research Methods Prerequisites: SOC 1113 and SOC 3113. Description: Applying sociological theory to designing quantitative and qualitative research; methods of data collection, processing and analysis; basic skills in computer analysis of social data. Research project included. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology SOC 4153 Sociology of Health and Illness

Description: Critically analyzes the social production of disease and illness in modern society from a sociological perspective. Examines the social organization of Medicare care, including critical issues affecting healthcare and health insurance in the United States. Focuses on the meanings and experiences of illness, as well as on contemporary critical debates such as environmental and health, bioengineering, and bioethics. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Sociology