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SMP (0855) 306 - Event Sponsorship
Credits: 3.00
Student experience will focus on how to achieve marketing objectives through leveraging activities and direct inducements that offer an extra value or incentive for a product or service to consumers through sport events. Sponsorship development will be studied from the points of view of both event planner and corporate sponsor.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 205 SMP 275
Free Note: For Undergraduate Students only
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SMP (0855) 308 - Recreation Administration
Credits: 3.00
Students will study all aspects of recreation supervision with an emphasis on the various delivery systems as well as management issues. Focus of the learning experience is to provide opportunities for developing practical skills for effective organization and administration of contemporary recreational programs.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 205 SMP 275
Free Note: For Undergraduate students only
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SMP (0855) 310 - Sport Facility Administration
Credits: 3.00
Management, design, and maintenance concepts as they apply to indoor and outdoor facility management are the focus of this course. Students will also examine the following key issues of facility management: security, operations and evaluation.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 205 SMP 275
Free Note: Management, design, and maintenance concepts as they apply to indoor and outdoor facility management are the focus of this course. Students will also examine the following key issues of facility management: security, operations and evaluation.
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SMP (0855) 370 - Aspects of Coaching
Credits: 3.00
A study of various techniques, efficiencies and conditions for successful coaching. Investigation into the problems involved in assisting athletes toward development of individual potentials.
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SMP (0855) 376 - Social Structure and Sport
Credits: 3.00
Examine the body and sport in society to explore social stratification. Discuss how bodies are not only biological entities, but also socially defined by different groups in their quest for social power. These insights lead to an examination of social change from different theoretical perspectives.
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SMP (0855) 390 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 432 - Sport Communication & Media Relations
Credits: 3.00
Student experience will focus on ways to build relationships and convey strategic messages to all sports-related constituencies. Techniques discussed will include all forms of communication, such as, but not limited to, news releases, news conferences, television and radio broadcasts, conference calls, the Internet, advertising, direct marketing, printed publications and video.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 205 SMP 275
Free Note: For Undergraduate Students only
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SMP (0855) 489 - Special Topics
Credits: 2.00
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SMP (0855) 490 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
Topics in sport studies, recreation, and physical education. Event sponsorship, therapy and sports medicine are included.
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SMP (0855) 491 - Independent Study
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 494 - Special Topics
Credits: 1.00
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SMP (0855) 496 - Practicum
Credits: 1.00
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SMP (0855) 497 - Practicum
Credits: 2.00
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SMP (0855) 498 - Practicum
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 500 - Organization & Prin of Coaching
Credits: 3.00
Principles and philosophy of sport as an integral part of physical budget, equipment, selection of personnel, in addition to local, state, and national regulations.
Free Note: Only open to Jr’s Sr’s and Graduate Students
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SMP (0855) 543 - Youth Development Through Sport and Physical Activity
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the interdisciplinary field of youth development through sport and physical activity through readings, leadership of a youth program, and program design. Goals include identifying and evaluating principles and best practices in youth development through sport and physical activity, implementing a community-based program, and designing program.
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SMP (0855) 544 - Organization & Administration Of Youth Sport Programs
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the interdisciplinary field of youth development through sport and physical activity through readings, leadership of a youth program, and program design. Goals include identifying and evaluating principles and best practices in youth development through sport and physical activity, implementing a community-based program, and designing program.
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SMP (0855) 545 - Funding And Evaluation of Sport-Based Youth Development
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the interdisciplinary field of youth development through sport and physical activity through readings, leadership of a youth program, and program design. Goals include identifying and evaluating principles and best practices in youth development through sport and physical activity, implementing a community-based program, and designing program.
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SMP (0855) 546 - Global Sport-Based Youth and Community Development
Credits: 3.00
Students will focus on the role of youth and community development through sport and physical activity throughout the world. Goals include identifying and evaluating global youth and community development through sport and physical activity programs; developing a program along with specific goals, philosophy and pedagogical strategies.
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SMP (0855) 550 - S/T:Workshops in Physical Education
Credits: 1.00
Specialized, in-depth workshops relative to teaching, special physical education, sports medicine, exercise physiology, or sports management. Includes leadership in violence prevention.
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SMP (0855) 580 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
Students will be one-on-one counselors for visually impaired campers. Counselors will spend all camp hours with campers including dormitories. Their job will be to assistand support their disabled athlete throughout the camp’s activities. Reading and meeting with Dr. Kowalski will be required prior to the start of the coures.
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SMP (0855) 581 - Special Topics
Credits: 2.00
Outdoor Education is an experientially-based program that sets as its goals increased levels of communication, cooperation trust and team work in the outdoor environment. This course includes a variety of outdoor activities, such as low and high ropes course, adventure games and problem solving activities.
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SMP (0855) 582 - Special Topics
Credits: 1.00
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SMP (0855) 583 - Special Topics
Credits: 0.00
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SMP (0855) 608 - Technology in Sport Management
Credits: 3.00
Students explore and further develop competence utilizing technology and software programs demanded in sport management careers. The course design also aims to assist students to discover how the utilization of numerous information technologies within the sport industry is transforming the way managers conduct administration and marketing of sport business operations.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 660
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
● Utilize a PC and mobile device for administration, management, marketing and operations software applications.
● Understand the importance of the computer and/or mobile devices in sport industry
● Demonstrate correct data input techniques for database management and excel software applications with acceptable speed and accuracy
● Analyze and perform functions within various operating system
● Explore technology career opportunities and demands across the sport industry
● Format a variety of documents and applications across various software programs
● Utilize database management, spreadsheet application, publication software, webpage development and Mobile App design
● Create presentations using various presentation software programs
● Evaluate and critique various sport business websites
● Analyze sport management practitioners use of various technology and software to; generate revenue streams, manage human resources, operate more efficiently, etc.
● Analyze a variety of complex issues and challenges pertaining to the strategic management of technology and innovation
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SMP (0855) 611 - Leadership Violence Prevention
Credits: 0.00
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SMP (0855) 612 - Sport Management Personnel and Program Evaluations
Credits: 3.00
Students gain an in-depth understanding of the structure and management of sport organizations. Establishing performance goals for employees and methods utilized to evaluate employee performance are a primary focus of the course. Another fundamental emphasis within the course will be aimed toward measuring individual, unit & organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
Upon successful completion of this course students are expected to:
1. Identify the opportunities and challenges of assuming administrative positions within sport organizations.
2. Analyze and discuss contemporary and classical theories of organizational structure and management as they relate sport organizations.
3. Display an understanding of the management processes of planning, organizing, implementing, and controlling through course assignments and discussions.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of various performance appraisal models which can be applied within sport organizations through course assignments and discussions.
5. Exhibit an understanding of theories/strategies related to effective communication systems within sport organizations through course assignments and discussions.
6. Create several evaluation tools to be utilized to control and assess individual and organizational effectiveness.
7. Develop and critique plans intended to provide professional development for sport administration professionals in various areas.
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SMP (0855) 617 - Intramural and Recreation Management
Credits: 3.00
Students will study all aspects of collegiate intramural and recreation supervision with an emphasis on the various delivery systems as well as management issues. Focus of the learning experience is to provide opportunities for developing practical skills for effective organization and administration of contemporary intramural and recreational programs.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633 SMP 660
From this course, students should be able to:
1. Articulate the value of intramural and recreation programs and services
2. Describe the essential components of managing intramural and recreation based programs.
3. Design and present an annual operational management plan for a simulated intramural and/or recreation program.
4. Design, recommend, and present a long range management plan for an actual program using the management components covered in this course.
5. Learn how to work cooperatively with a team of colleagues in managing intramural and recreation based programs.
6. Demonstrate presentation skills required of management personnel by presenting a plan to university administration and community members.
7. Identify the steps used to design a plan for intramural and recreation based programs recreation programs.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of the following management issues; staffing, marketing, risk management, budgeting, facilities and program evaluation.
9. Design intramural and recreation management plan for a chosen consumer segment.
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SMP (0855) 631 - Women in Sports
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 632 - Intro To Sports Management
Credits: 3.00
A general overview of the application of management theory to athletics and sports organizations and an introduction to problems in sports management.
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SMP (0855) 633 - Sport Marketing
Credits: 3.00
The students will examine sport products and marketing strategies in contemporary sport industry; analyze marketing strategies to understand how sport marketing practitioners effectively advance and increase visibility of various sport products, and market other products through sport.
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SMP (0855) 634 - Sport Alliances and Sponsorships
Credits: 3.00
Students will focus on ways to achieve corporate marketing objectives by incorporating sponsorships and sales promotion activities into an integrated communications plan. Promotional mix strategies to cost-effectively leverage sponsorships will also be discussed.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633
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SMP (0855) 635 - Youth Sport
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 636 - Athletic Administration
Credits: 3.00
Application of administrative theory to problems in intercollegiate and interscholastic athletics including budgeting, facility management, personal relations, marketing, personnel management, Title IX, and ethical concerns.
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SMP (0855) 637 - Organization And Administration of Physical Education
Credits: 3.00
An investigation into the processes of appropriate organization, administrative techniques, and procedures useful in efficient management.
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SMP (0855) 638 - Contemporary Issues in Sport Management
Credits: 3.00
Students will examine the character and position of sport business administration within a global marketplace. Specifically, students analyze administrative strategies utilized to resolve prevalent issues in amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional athletics in diverse environments.
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Identify current issues relevant to sport administrators within professional, intercollegiate, interscholastic and amateur organizations.
2. Utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills to dissect contemporary sport management topics.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact globalization has on sport administrators as well as athletes.
4. Identify ways to initiate organizational change and effectively manage conflict to address various issues that influence the sport industry and society.
5. Understand the current role of intercollegiate athletics within higher education.
6. Analyze the financial implications of an intercollegiate athletic program on higher education institutions.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of economic development as it relates to amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.
8. Identify the implications of using public funds to support professional sport franchises.
9. Analyze the impact of sports gambling on intercollegiate and professional sport.
10. Explain the role of gender equity within professional and intercollegiate athletic programs.
11. Explore the prevalence and impact of race on sport organizations.
12. Understand how and why current administrative practices are implemented to address issues and concerns within amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.
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SMP (0855) 639 - Introduction To Sports Law
Credits: 3.00
A general overview of sport law and athletic compliance for the collegiate administrator or coach. Students gain knowledge of the variety of state and national laws applying to sports as well as athletic compliance and the current operating bylaws.
This course should enable you to:
1. Understand and analyze different types of legal issues affecting the sports industry;
2. Understand the significance of proper contractual drafting and negotiation;
3. Understand the significance of the application of antitrust law to the sports industry;
4. Understand the significance of collective bargaining to the sports industry;
5. Understand the fiduciary relationship between sports agent and athlete;
6. Understand the relationship between constitutional law and the sports industry;
7. Basic understanding of how to analyze Court decisions/caselaw and how to apply same.
8. Describe the historical and legal implications of the NCAA.
9. Describe the relationship between financial responsibilities and educational goals in NCAA member institutions.
10. Evaluate the NCAA, NCAA member institutions, and stakeholders (e.g., administrators, coaches, student-athletes, boosters) relationship with the sport and the social world (i.e., diversity issues, gender equity, student-athlete development).
11. Integrate historic literature, current events, and practical experiences into a greater understanding of intercollegiate sport and sport administration.
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SMP (0855) 644 - Sport Economics
Credits: 3.00
The students will explore basic financial and managerial concepts necessary for financial literacy in the business of sport. Sport organizations’ uses of revenue generating techniques will be analyzed. Budget and financial planning practices of sports businesses will also be thoroughly examined.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632
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SMP (0855) 645 - Sport Licensing and Merchandising
Credits: 3.00
The students will expand upon the introductory of sport licensing and merchandising through topics such as sport product lifecycle, licensing programs, product development, fashion forecasting, line planning, sourcing, pricing/markdowns, vendor relations, and planning and allocation.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633
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SMP (0855) 646 - Sport Communication and Media Relations
Credits: 3.00
Student experience will focus on ways to build relationships and convey strategic messages to all sports-related constituencies. Techniques discussed will include all forms of communication, such as, but not limited to, news releases, news conferences, television and radio broadcasts, conference calls, the Internet, advertising, direct marketing, printed publications and video.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 660
At the completion of this course students will be able to
1) Describe the mass communication process and the Strategic Sport Communication Model (SSCM).
2) Apply media relations applications and methods through structured assignments.
3) Analyze the use of media guides and media brochures.
4) Incorporate all course content presented throughout semester for the purpose of conducting a
media relations campaign for an area sports organization that culminates with a mock press conference.
5) Establish protocol for effective press box game operations by utilizing appropriate tools and procedures.
6) Explain the role each form of technology, including desktop publishing, web-pages and databases contributes in media relations and/or organizational settings.
7) Delineate between effective uses and designs of print and electronic media.
8) Write a news release and develop publicity campaign.
9) Write a critique regarding the contents in a media guide through a case analysis of a media guide.
10) Prepare a publicity campaign, utilizing various technology forms, that culminates with a student lead press conference.
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SMP (0855) 647 - Public Relations in Sport
Credits: 3.00
The course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of public relations in sport industry through an examination of the requisite techniques and writing skills. Additionally students will learn how public relations fit into the overall business processes of promotion and marketing.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633
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SMP (0855) 648 - Sport Facility and Event Management
Credits: 3.00
This course aims to inform students of the principles and practices of planning, funding, and managing sport events and facilities. Students are introduced to administrative, supportive, and maintenance services unique to the operation and organization of event and facility management within the sport industry.
Upon successful completion of this course the student should be able to:
1. Understand the use of needs assessments, feasibility studies, resources, and economic impact studies in the facility planning process.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of various types of sport/leisure facilities and the unique characteristics of each type of facility.
3. Students demonstrate an understanding of the structure of sport event and the financial, organizational and promotional needs associated with them.
4. Understand the concept of risk management and the significance of legal issues in the area of sport facility and event management.
5. Identify and understand conventional methods used to finance sport facilities and events.
6. Understand the basic principles associated with managing a sport facility and event.
7. Develop an understanding of the managerial issues (recruitment, selection, compensation, negotiating, volunteers, hospitality and employee diversity) which are specific to sport facility and event management.
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SMP (0855) 657 - Sport Promotion and Sales Management
Credits: 3.00
Students will be introduced to the concepts, techniques, research and tactics within promotion, advertising and sales management relevant to the sports industry. The course will also inform students how to develop and utilize evaluation tools for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertising, incentive programs and promotion campaigns (in sports promotion).
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633 SMP 660
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
● Identify the terms and concepts that are commonly used in sports promotion and advertising, as indicated by performance on tests, projects, and assignments.
● Demonstrate knowledge about the relationships which underlie these terms and concepts, as indicated by performance on tests, projects, and assignments.
● Demonstrate an understanding of the depth and breadth of advertising and promotion concepts and functions, as indicated by overall performance in preparation and presentation of sports promotion and advertising projects, including sales promotion, personal selling, publicity, public relations, and advertising.
● Demonstrate an appreciation for the value of an ethical approach when reviewing or developing sports promotion and advertising activities, as indicated by the students evaluation of class learning activities which require value-based judgment during completion of projects and assignments.
● Demonstrate a knowledge of international promotion and advertising functions, as indicated by selected sports advertising and promotion examples during activities, projects, and assignments.
● Develop and utilize evaluation tools for promotion and advertising campaigns.
● Demonstrate understanding of salesmanship and problems confronted by the sales manager; more specifically the buying process, pricing, market analysis, sales management, selling, sales training, motivating, and ethics.
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SMP (0855) 659 - Analysis of Sport Branding Strategies
Credits: 3.00
Students develop understanding of the importance of brand equity as well as how to build, measure and manage brand equity within sport management. Topics will include understanding brands from the customer’s perspective, building brand equity, measuring brand equity, leveraging brand equity, managing brand portfolios and long-term sport brand management.
Prerequisite 1: SMP 632 SMP 633 SMP 660
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Understand relevant theories and models of branding to make better business decisions.
2. Comprehend how branding influences consumer behavior.
3. Identify how organizations build brand equity.
4. Determine how to measure brand equity.
5. Comprehend how to build brand equity over time.
6. Understand how brands fit together as a brand portfolio.
7. Ascertain how to leverage brand equity.
8. Analyze sport organizations long-term brand management practices
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SMP (0855) 660 - Research in Sport Management
Credits: 3.00
This course challenges students to question relevant topics of discourse in sport management. Students develop further understanding of research process; specifically how to frame questions, search for existing answers, and interpret qualitative and quantitative research. Several topics examined include leadership development, management practices, marketing research, strategic development and organizational performance.
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to do the following:
1. Introduction to Applied and Basic Research
2. Identify the problem, delineate the problem, dissect the problem within a framework of social justice, and form research question.
3. Conduct a comprehensive review of the literature and information relevant to the problem.
4. Develop appropriate design and methodology for investigating the problem
5. Identify data needs and sources, collect data
6. Recognize different types of analyses
a. Understand data analysis varies based on the situation
b. Recognize the need for reliability and validity of analysis
c. Create, interpret and discuss descriptive results
d. Create, interpret and discuss relational results
e. Create, interpret and discuss group comparison results
7. Create an outline for your prospectus
8. Create a prospectus for a research project
9. Write using APA style and format
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SMP (0855) 690 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
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SMP (0855) 791 - Independent Study
Credits: 1.00 to 6.00
Comprehensive investigation of an area of special interest.
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SMP (0855) 792 - Internship
Credits: 3.00
Supervised field experience.
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SMP (0855) 800 - Internship
Credits: 0.00
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SOC (0170) 100 - Introduction to Sociology
Credits: 3.00
This course focuses upon the basic principles, concepts, terminology, themes, and issues that are the building blocks of sociological analysis.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 101 - Social Problems
Credits: 3.00
This course offers a sociological perspective on different contemporary social problems and issues. Topics include: social and economic inequality; racial tensions and conflict; poverty in the midst of affluence; individualism and community; urbanization; crime; changes in institutions and values; dilemmas of advanced technology.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 110 - Human Rights and Peace Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspective
Credits: 3.00
Students will explore issues of violence, human rights and peace in various disciplines. Invited speakers will offer perspectives in their fields of expertise: history, economics, business, environmental studies, religious studies, multicultural education among others. Student will apply their learning to individual and/or group projects for individual, community and social transformation.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Free Note: Required for Peace Studies Minor. Open to others as a General Education elective.
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SOC (0170) 125 - The Material Family
Credits: 3.00
This course involves multimedia projects in which students carry out a sociologically based analysis of family pictures, artifacts, records and interviews. The research topics include: oral histories; ancestry research; analysis of family dwelling and possessions; identity and traditions; structure and leisure activities; and values in education and religion.
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SOC (0170) 135 - Religious Cultures
Credits: 3.00
This course offers a sociological analysis of religious cultures and institutions within societies throughout the world. Topics include: traditional religions, new religious movements and non-institutional forms of spirituality.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 150 - Soc of Global Social Problems
Credits: 3.00
This course examines global concerns involving people, space and resources from a sociological perspective, analyzing issues and trends such as urbanization, migration, structural change, international conflicts, and the global environment. The focus will be on historical world systems and the interconnectedness of contemporary global social problems.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 COMMUNICATION–ORAL Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC 0170 170 - Healing Racism and Social Injustices
Credits: 3.00
Students will engage in interdisciplinary explorations of how the humanities and the arts create an understanding of social injustices, and at the same time encourage healing. Students will analyze human and civil rights issues through philosophy, history, sociology, criminal justice, documentaries and films, music, poetry, and various artwork.
Free Note: Cross-listed with 0101-170
1. Students will engage in meaningful reflection based on class discussions and various humanities readings and visual materials.
2. Students will create several pieces of art in the medium of their choice (art, music, poetry, digital media, graphic design, photography) that portrays a social injustice.
3. Students will be able to discuss current social justice issues through an exploration of imagery and symbolism.
4. Students will be able to understand the importance of art that has connotative meanings (those that are associated through individual and shared groups) and denotative meanings (literal).
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SOC (0170) 202 - Development of Sociological Thought
Credits: 3.00
This course is an historical overview of the sociological tradition, from the social philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) to the classics of the 19th century (Tocqueville, Weber, Marx, Durkheim and Simmel), looking at the ways some of the theorists’ ideas, theories, and observations can be used to analyze contemporary society.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 203 - Contemporary Sociological Theories
Credits: 3.00
This course focuses on sociological theorists working from the mid 20th century to contemporary time. Emphasis is on the application of sociological theory to empirical data, normative assumptions, and to specific social issues and social behavior.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100 SOC 202
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SOC (0170) 220 - Sociology of Organizations
Credits: 3.00
This course focuses on the social structure and operation of work organizations - factories, offices, schools, hospitals, etc. Included are such subjects as formal and informal organization, management, work motivation, labor unions, alienation from work, intrinsic and extrinsic meanings in work, and the Protestant ethic.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 221 - Race and Crime in the United States
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the complex relationship between race and crime in the United States. Students will examine theoretical and empirical data on present-day crime rates in order to learn about the nature and cause of racial disparities in criminality, victimization, relationships with law enforcement, and perceptions of social justice.
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SOC (0170) 225 - Sociology of The Family
Credits: 3.00
The family and marriage today, in modern society is compared with the past and with other societies. Is the family becoming obsolete? What alternatives are emerging? What roles do extended kin play in the modern world? Have the generations grown farther apart? What happened to the sexual revolution?
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 228 - Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Family
Credits: 3.00
This course covers basic communication patterns in the family. The following topics will be discussed: the role of emotion and assumptions in communication, the importance of power, anger attributions, and trust. Communication will be analyzed in dyads as well as multi-generational family systems.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 233 - Mass Media in Contemporary Society
Credits: 3.00
This course analyzes mass media in contemporary society, including media organization, types of content, effect on audience. The different media will be compared, including the impact of the different technologies.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 234 - Sociology of Art
Credits: 3.00
This course examines theoretical perspectives of the sociology of art: art as social defined; differences in avant-garde art, fine art and popular culture; art market institutions and art; the role of the artist in society.
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 240 - Sociology of Violence
Credits: 3.00
This course explores social and cultural theories, definitions, and perspectives on violence; examines types of violence including family violence, bias violence, political violence, religious violence, state violence; looks at representations of violence in art and popular culture; explores perspectives on nonviolence.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 INFORMATION LITERACY Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 241 - Constructions of Genders and Sexualities
Credits: 3.00
This course examines the roles of American men and women as participants in family, work, and sexual institutions against a background of historical and cross-cultural surveys of gender roles; innate differences between the sexes; and the desirability of various proposals for realizing the full potentialities of both sexes.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Free Note: Required for Gender Studies Minor.
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SOC (0170) 244 - Sociology of Deviance
Credits: 3.00
This courses examines structural and interactive roots of deviation from nonconformity to over conformity; analyzes various deviance theories; the role of social control and social control agencies in the deviance process; the variety of nonconventional lifestyles; deviance of culturally patterned responses to economic, political institutions, and cultural expectations
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 246 - Criminology
Credits: 4.00
This course focuses on a sociological analysis of the patterns of criminal behavior, the relationship of crime to law, and other aspects of the social order; critical examination of theories of criminality; societal reactions to crime; analysis of the criminal justice system; the police, courts, prison and its alternatives.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 INFORMATION LITERACY Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 249 - Italian-American Experience
Credits: 3.00
This course is a sociological analysis of the basic socio-political-historic roots of the Italian-American experience. It will be an in-depth study of the culture and institutions (family, religion, politics, education) of the Italians in Italy and the changes that resulted in those who immigrated to America.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 260 - Cities, Towns, And Suburbs
Credits: 3.00
This course will provide an analysis of modern communities and how they evolved; investigate how the growth of cities impacted upon towns and suburbs; see how city, town and suburban environments have impacted upon family, education, ethnic relations, economics, politics and leisure.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 261 - Crime and Punishment
Credits: 4.00
This course will explore such fundamental questions as “what is crime?†and “what constitutes justice?†The class will examine broader issues associated with crime and punishment, including the connection between the criminal justice system and society in general.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 270 - Ethnicity in the United States
Credits: 3.00
This course provides a basic understanding of the ethnic and racial makeup of the peoples of the United States, examining the social, political and economic contexts that historically frame experiences of specific groups, relationships between them and the implications for US society.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Free Note: Cross-listed with ABC 270
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SOC (0170) 275 - Media Images of Italian- American
Credits: 3.00
The manner in which Italian-Americans have been perceived by the American society has been, to a large extent, created and perpetuated by the mass media portrayal of this ethnic group. This course will analyze the socio-historical development of the media portrayal of the Italians in America.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 277 - Law and Social Inequality
Credits: 3.00
How do we explain continuing inequality in the US? What has been and is the role of law in creating, maintaining, and reducing inequality? This course examines different forms of inequality, including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and disability and the use of law for civil rights and social change.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 278 - Sexuality and School Violence
Credits: 3.00
Students will examine school shootings and other violence in American and European schools; students will analyze responses-comparing popular and scholarly analysis relating to gender, race, and class with a particular focus on dominant research regarding sexuality. Students will learn to think critically about school violence using multiple sociological frameworks.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 288 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
This course addresses global migration trends from colonial times to the present, using historical sociological, political, legal, and economic perspectives. The course will examine economic migrants, refugees, and stateless people. It includes case studies of various immigrant groups in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
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SOC (0170) 301 - Qualitative Research Methods
Credits: 4.00
This course provides an overview of qualitative research methods. It explores the logic of sociological inquiry, ethical issues in working with human subjects, research design, and qualitative methods, including field research, interviewing, focus groups, and content analysis. It requires study and hands-on use of these methods.
Prerequisite 1: SOC 202 or SOC 203 Prerequisite 2:
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SOC (0170) 302 - Quantitative Research Methods
Credits: 4.00
This course provides an overview of quantitative research methods including design, implementation and analysis. Students learn how to formulate a hypothesis, collect, organize, describe, summarize and interpret data, how to conduct a literature review, and develop and write a research report. Involves hands-on use of these methodologies.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 INFORMATION LITERACY Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 QUANTITATIVE REASONING
Prerequisite 1: SOC 202 or SOC 203 or SOC 246 or ACG 246
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SOC (0170) 315 - Juvenile Delinquency
Credits: 3.00
This course will explore some of the broader social issues associated with juvenile crime, criminality, and criminal behavior. Using accepted definitions of crime and delinquency, the course will examine causes and explanations of juvenile delinquency, as well as possible modes of prevention, control, and correction.
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 330 - Who Gets What and Why
Credits: 3.00
Students explore the question, “who gets what and why?” by learning about power, opportunity, and privilege. We examine how the stratification system distributes resources, its consequences for individuals and groups, and persistence over time. Special attention is given to income and wealth disparities across class, race, gender, ethnicity, & citizenship.
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 331 - Sociology of Law
Credits: 3.00
This course provides an introduction to issues in law and society and to the American legal system. It deals with theories of what law is and what it does and examines the place of law in promoting or limiting social change.
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 336 - Sociology of Education
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the history, development and current state of educational systems, and focuses on how social forces shape academic institutions, their curriculum and the role education plays in the United States and globally.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 341 - Gender Issues in Criminal Justice
Credits: 3.00
This course explores how gender relates to crime, criminal justice, and criminology, where men and women emerge as distinctly different categories - with specific problems, questions, and issues; and examines how men and women are understood and treated differently within criminal justice theory and the criminal justice system.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 INFORMATION LITERACY Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
Prerequisite 1: SOC 100
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SOC (0170) 342 - Sociology of Terrorism
Credits: 4.00
This course is designed to give students an overview of “terrorism”, beginning with definitions, typologies, histories and theories. Students will also assess specific societal responses (e.g., homeland security), the economic and political costs of such responses (e.g., civil rights), and the possibility of preventing terrorism in the future.
Free Note: Cross-listed with ACG 342
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SOC (0170) 343 - Internship in Criminal Justice & Sociology
Credits: 3.00
This course is designed to give students practical work experience in a local organization, business, or agency, as determined by the student’s interest. In addition to 150 hours of supervised field placement, interns are expected to complete assigned readings and reports, and meet regularly online with the course instructor/internship coordinator.
Free Note: Independent Study Form required.
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SOC (0170) 344 - The Sociology of Immigration
Credits: 3.00
Students will explore the relationship between globalization and the mobility of post-1965 migrants. Topics examined include: reasons for migration, role of the state in shaping human mobility, lives of stayers and leavers, impact of cultural, economic, and social institutions of migrants as well as migrant impact on these institutions.
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SOC (0170) 345 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Health
Credits: 3.00
Students will study aspects of social setting and human behavior that contribute to the occurrence of public health threats and influence the success of population-level disease prevention and health promotion. Social, behavioral, and cultural theories regarding diagnosis, perceptions of threat, and public health problems are also addressed.
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SOC (0170) 380 - Social Change
Credits: 3.00
The course analyzes the changing patterns of social institutions in contemporary industrial societies; explores sociological theories about change; discusses current trends and patterns of change; and look at social movements, nonviolence and institutional change.
Distribution Requirement Social Sciences
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SOC (0170) 401 - Majors Seminar
Credits: 3.00
In the Majors’ Seminar capstone course, students synthesize acquired knowledge and skills as they transition from undergraduate work to employment, graduate school or other pursuits. They will demonstrate their mastery of the discipline’s complexity, an understanding of sociologists’ role in society, and the usefulness of sociological knowledge in everyday life.
Free Note: For majors only.
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SOC (0170) 410 - Peace Studies Seminar: Synthesis Reflection and Planning
Credits: 3.00
Students’ use of and reflection on their knowledge, skills, and beliefs about helping to establish peace are emphasized. The integrating seminar is structured to encourage students to identify, affirm and challenge what they have learned in their field experiences and coursework and addresses implications for their major areas of study and career plans.
Prerequisite 2: SOC 111
Free Note: Required for Peace Studies Minor. “CP” Capstone Course - open to seniors only.
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SOC (0170) 490 - Independent Study
Credits: 1.00 to 6.00
This course focuses on reading and research of selected topics in sociology, under the guidance of the faculty advisor.
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SPA (0172) 111 - Level I Spanish
Credits: 3.00
Students learn through a communicative / participatory approach to the basic elements of the language, including listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. (Learning Goals:G) ,,
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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SPA (0172) 112 - Level II Spanish
Credits: 3.00
Students continue work begun in Level I with an emphasis on the more advanced functions of the Language through a communicative/participatory approach and further development of cultural awareness.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Prerequisite 1: SPA 111
Free Note: Students who fail to receive a C- or higher in Level I cannot continue to Level I I
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SPA (0172) 121 - Level III Spanish
Credits: 3.00
Students continue to practice what they learned in Level II and focus on more advanced characteristics of the language and culture through a communicative/participatory approach. (Learning Goals:CO,G) ,,
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–ORAL Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Prerequisite 1: SPA 112
Free Note: Prerequisite: SPA 112 or equivalant.
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SPA (0172) 122 - Level IV Spanish
Credits: 3.00
Students continue to practice listening, speaking, reading, writing and learning about culture and are introduced to literary selections. (Learning Goals:G,CO)
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 COMMUNICATION–ORAL
Prerequisite 1: SPA 121
Free Note: Students who failed to receive a C- in level III cannot continue into the next level, Level IV.
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SPA (0172) 231 - Spanish Cross-Cultural Concepts
Credits: 3.00
Students examine the way of life of a people to understand their value systems as well as to achieve cross-cultural communication and understanding. The use a variety of sources to help them identify those cultural patterns intrinsic to a society.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 COMMUNICATION–ORAL Distribution Requirement Humanities
Prerequisite 1: SPA 122
Free Note: Prerequisite: SPA 122 or equivalent
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SPA (0172) 232 - Intro to Hispanic Lit
Credits: 3.00
Students explore the nature of literature as well as aspects of literary composition related to form and content. Students examine both Hispanic American and Peninsular literary samples in a variety of genres and learn how to comment on them.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
Prerequisite 1: SPA 252
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SPA (0172) 240 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Credits: 3.00
Students review grammatical structures and standard usage in the spoken and written language in order to fill gaps in previous experience and formalize prior knowledge. Students are exposed to phonetics and regional variations.
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SPA (0172) 246 - Spain Today
Credits: 3.00
Students gain a critical understanding of Spanish culture and civilization as reflected in its current literature and way of life. They focus on significant aspects of the culture of Spain from 1975 to the present and compare those aspects to Spain’s history and heritage.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 COMMUNICATION–ORAL Distribution Requirement Humanities
Prerequisite 1: SPA 231
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