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  • SOC 151: Modern Social Problems

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course offers a sociological approach to the study of social problems. Students will examine how a problem comes to public attention, how it is defined, how data are used or misused in the presentation of a problem, and how political ideology affects what solutions are offered for a problem. Course materials will give special attention to the role of the media in highlighting certain problems and in shaping an audience's perspective on those problems. Students will investigate the social-structural conditions that produce particular problems and explore the ways in which a variety of problems are connected to one another. They will look at the political and economic interests that are tied to those social structures and consider how those interests affect policy. Throughout the course, students will evaluate "solutions" put forward by various advocates and agenices and identify ways in which individuals can become involved in shaping policy debates and/or taking political action. The particular problems addressed will vary, but may include: poverty, heterosexism, violence, substance use/abuse, access to health care, educational disparities, environmental pollution, war and genocide, and/or the exploitation of labor.
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  • SOC 154: Women & Gender Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary course asks students to engage in discussion about historical and contemporary issues in Women and Gender studies. Students will explore how gender intersects with class, race, sexuality, age, and ability within social institutions. The course will examine how androcentric power structures contribute to the oppression of women and marginalized populations, and how these power structures can be challenged through non-binary perspectives and scholarly practices. Through completing this course, students will be prepared to apply the critical tools of Women and Gender Studies to their academic, personal, and occupational lives.
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  • SOC 155: Mass Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Surveys popular culture in America as a mirror of American life. Popular music, sports, movies, radio, TV advertising, books, and the industries that support them will be surveyed and analyzed. Hero worship, romance and sex, and the dream of success are examined as major themes of American pop culture. The various relationships between pop culture and education, leisure, family relations and the role of women and minorities are also examined.
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  • SOC 207: Latin American Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course is an introduction to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean. Taking into consideration the region's complexity, this class examines the geography, politics, history and culture of the area as well as the nuances of its peoples and societies. Students will explore different approaches to the understanding of the area's economic development, the internal and external struggles over political power and forms of rule, and the intricacy of the region's relationship with the Unites States. Topics also include racial and ethnic identity, gender and sexuality dynamics, migration and the migrant experience, and the emergence of new cultural expressions.
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  • SOC 250: Criminology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course offers students a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice in American society. The class investigates differing definitions of the crime problem and explores how people learn about crime, what behaviors they fear, and why some but not all harmful acts are punished by the criminal justice system. Course materials examine connections between biological and social factors that affect violent and impulsive behaviors in certain communities. The class explores how the policies and practices of the criminal justice system respond to street crime and how those responses affect the lives of low-income and racially marginalized populations. The course evaluates the effectiveness of various criminal justice policies.
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  • SOC 251: The Family

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course involves an analysis of historic and contemporary trends in marriage and family relationships in American society with an emphasis on sociological theory and research. It explores family structures, functions, and processes through the life cycle as well as social challenges impacting the institution of marriage and family.
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  • SOC 253: Diversity and Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course examines the social systems of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality as they intersect in U.S. society. Students will develop a conceptual framework for understanding systems of power and oppression on both the micro level of lived experience and the macro level of social instituitions. That theoretical framework will be used to analyze how systems of inequality were constructed historically and how they are perpetuated, resisted, and transformed in contemporary society.
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  • SOC 258: Cultural Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    A survey of theories and methods of cultural anthropology, cultural evolution, cross-cultural variation, kinship relationships, as well as political, religious, technological and economic organization will be studied. The emphasis will be on non-western and non-industrial societies.
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  • SOC 283: Intro to Social Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Offers a broad introduction to social psychology, the scientific study of human social influence and interaction. The various ways people think about, effect, and relate to one another will be a major emphasis. Topics within social cognition, social perception and social influence include social self-concept, social judgment, attitudes, persuasion, psychology explanations for social influence and interaction. Research methodologies commonly used to in the discipline will be emphasized through empirical findings.
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  • SPM 101: Intro to Sport Management

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This introductory course offering is designed to acquaint students with the career options in sport management. Various concepts in organizational modules dealing with programming, staffing, budgeting, recruiting and public relations will be explored. This course requires outside- class participation in sport-related assignments.
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