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• SOCY 310: Sociology of Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Sociological understanding and interpreting religious phenomena including insight regarding the place of religion in society; the functional and conflict orientation to religion; religion and the individual; institutionalization of religion; religion and social change; and the secularization of religion. Offered periodically.
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• SOCY 313: Sociology of Disaster

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Behavioral and organizational response to environmental hazards and disasters. Case studies of major natural disasters and hazardous-materials incidents illustrate individual, group and societal challenges faced in such events. Issues include building a disaster-resistant community, the impact of the media, and governmental successes and failures. Prerequisite:    SOCY 101 or SOCY 211. A required course for the EHEM minor.
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• SOCY 315: Race and Ethnic Relations

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Study of racial and ethnic relations, modes of adaptation of minorities and cross-cultural examinations of dominant-minority relations. Prerequisite:    3 s.h. of sociology or junior/senior status.
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• SOCY 316: Social Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduction to sociological social psychology; how social interactions are created, become patterned and susceptible to change; how society is structured through social interaction; and how social identities are formed. Specific topics may vary. Prerequisite:    ENGL 110, 3 s.h. of sociology or junior/senior status.
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• SOCY 317: Medical Sociology

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Social and cultural factors in health and illness; social organization of the medical care system; structural and interactional aspects of healthcare. Prerequisite:    3 s.h. sociology or junior/senior status.
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• SOCY 318: Soc Of Complex Organizations

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Social-interaction processes in business and industry; nature and effects of complex industrial organization; interrelationships among industry and other social subsystems. Prerequisite:    3 s.h. sociology or junior/senior status.
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• SOCY 319: Social Stratification

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  The development of social inequality by race, ethnicity, class, gender and nationality. The social construction of race and gender; various theories of class distribution. Inequality in education, housing and the workplace are discussed. Global instances of inequalities are also discussed. Prerequisite:    3 s.h. of sociology and junior/senior status.
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• SOCY 320: Sociology of Education

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Analysis of education as a social institution and its relationship to other institutions; the roles of educator, administrator, student and parent; implications of subcultures, social stratification and social change.
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• SOCY 329: Topics in Sociology

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Offered periodically.
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• SOCY 331: Socy of Policing and Courts

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Overview of the American system for the administration of justice focused on the apprehension, prosecution and adjudication of criminal defendants. Prerequisite:    SOCY 101, 230.
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