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• SOCI 3300: Social Movements

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Students apply theoretical ideas to case studies to enhance knowledge and evaluate tactics and strategies of social movements. There is also focus on the ethical considerations of tactics and strategies as they relate to violence, nonviolence, and technology. Empirical case studies will explore how social movements emerge, grow and decline.
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• SOCI 3310: Power and Social Change

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Through the learning and application of theory at the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis, this course examines the ways in which power encourages or discourages social change. There is a particular emphasis on popular education, globalization, the technology revolution, social media, and social movements.
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• SOCI 3340: Sociology Conflict Res

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Analyzes social conflict and introduces the dynamics of conflict resolution. Emphasizes examining theories and methods of active nonviolent conflict resolution in small group and large organizational settings. Includes violence, types of noncooperation, negotiation, adjudication, and mediation. Uses cross-cultural data extensively.
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• SOCI 3350: Charismatic Leaders

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Charismatic leaders emerge from social contexts like science, the military, art, economic/political systems, and religion. Charismatic leadership is rare, revolutionary, and unstable. Assess charismatic leaders' qualities, successes/failures at reaching their promised goals, and their relationship with their followers.
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• SOCI 3400: Sociology of Deviance

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on the process by which individuals or groups in societies become labeled as deviant, the reaction of society to deviance and the methods by which various agencies and individuals attempt to regulate, control and treat deviance. Attention is given to the assumption of deviant identities and formation of deviant subcultures.
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• SOCI 3420: Sociology of Crime

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides a sociological approach to the study of crime and those it effects. Focus is directed to understanding the macro and micro social construction of crime and criminals as well as recognizing and understanding the social causes of criminal behavior, attending to the roles of race/ethnicity, social class, locality, and gender.
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• SOCI 3450: Soc Addict Excess Exploitation

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will examine societal addictions, exploitations, and excesses in relation to their specific defining variables, patterns and practices, and historical and contemporary influences, inhibitions, and acceptances. Attention focuses on how socio-cultural forces influence use and participation through use of sociological tools and theories.
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• SOCI 3460: Soc Child Abuse & Neglect

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will examine the socially constructed variables that contribute to both the socialization and abuse of children (adults, community, social, political, and cultural contexts). The meanings and perceptions of childhood, inequality, abuse and neglect will be discussed in relation to their historical and contemporary underpinnings.
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• SOCI 3470: Sociology and the Sociopath

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will examine the societal variables that serve as catalysts and consequences for the development of the sociopath. Sociopath and sociopathic characterisitics are analyzed within specific and malleable historical, cultural, social, and contemporary contexts, as well as in response to future social changes, challenges, and innovations.
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• SOCI 3500: Sociological Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides a foundation in sociological theory by examining the work of classic sociologists whose theoretical contributions shaped the historical development of the discipline. Some contemporary social theorists, as well as various sociological schools of thought, will be explored.
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