May 18, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Political Science

  
  • POLS 4342 - International Relations

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Analysis of the major theoretical approaches to international politics; explores important historical and contemporary questions and debates in international affairs.

  
  • POLS 4355 - Political Philosophy

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course provides a frame of reference for classifying and assessing the merits of individual political theories in terms of their philosophical foundations.

  
  • POLS 4391 - Selected Topics in Political Science

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered. Topics vary;

    may be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.

Psychology

  
  • PSYC 1300 - Learning Frameworks

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 1

    An inquiry around the broad, interdisciplinary concepts of civic engagement and citizenship for students to explicitly examine and engage in advanced critical thinking and cognition, acquisition of resources, introduction to research and service learning.

  
  • PSYC 2301 - Introduction to Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: PSYC 2301 
    Core Category: Social Behavioral Science
    Survey of the major psychological topics, theories and approaches to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

    Prerequisites: Must meet TSI college-readiness standard for Reading or equivalent.
  
  • PSYC 2314 - Lifespan Growth and Development

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Lifespan Growth and Development is a study of social, emotional, cognitive and physical factors and influences of a developing human from conception to death.

  
  • PSYC 2317 - Statistical Methods in Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Teaching
    Fee ($): 40

    An introduction to and application of commonly used quantitative statistics in psychology and other behavioral sciences. It will focus on answering research questions using appropriate statistical techniques and interpretation of results.

  
  • PSYC 2319 - Social Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Attitudes, social cognition, social perception, self, social influence, relationships, prejudice, helping and aggression. Theories, research, and application.

  
  • PSYC 2320 - Introduction to Psychopathology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Neurotic and psychotic personality patterns; etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and correctional methods and institutions viewed from a psychological perspective.

  
  • PSYC 2330 - Biological Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The biological basis for how one thinks, feels and acts.

  
  • PSYC 3311 - Careers and Writing in Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course covers careers in psychology, provides experience with preparing for job searches and graduate school application process, and introduces students in APA style writing in the social sciences. For Psychology majors only. Psychology majors should take this course in the first semester of their junior year at the latest.

  
  • PSYC 3315 - Psychological Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 20

    Focuses on gaining skills necessary to understand and critique issues and research from a psychological perspective. Emphasis will be on critical thinking and expression of ideas, APA style, and journal reading.

  
  • PSYC 3321 - Learning

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 2 Lab: 1

    Basic principles of learning and how they apply to human behavior. For students interested in taking the Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) exam, this course serves as the first course in a 4-course sequence.

  
  • PSYC 3327 - Practicum in Peer Mentoring and Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    This upper-level course will focus on applying the tenants of critical thinking to higher education students’ success and development through the practice of peer mentoring. This is a rigorous course using research from the fields of psychology and higher education within service learning.

    Prerequisites: Students must have completed 45 credit hours and must have a 2. 75 G. P. A.
  
  • PSYC 3331 - Theories of Personality

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Theories of the origins, structure, and dynamics of personality; emphasis on the “normal” personality.

  
  • PSYC 3333 - Human Sexuality

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Exploration of psychological, biological and cultural viewpoints on sexual behavior, including research on attraction, gender, sexual dysfunction, sexual variations, sexual orientation and sexual coercion.

  
  • PSYC 3334 - Drugs and Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Mechanisms and effects of alcohol, opiates, sedatives, tranquilizers, stimulants, psychedelics and other psychotropic drugs; problems of abuse and attempts at control and education.

  
  • PSYC 3335 - Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 3

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 50

    Laboratory investigation of drug/brain/behavior relationships in the rat. Readings from primary research literature, laboratory experiments and research reports. Permission of instructor required.

  
  • PSYC 3336 - Methods in Behavioral Neuroscience

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 3

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 50

    Laboratory investigation of brain/behavior relationships in the rat. Readings from primary research literature, laboratory experiments and research reports. Permission of instructor required.

  
  • PSYC 3341 - Human Factors Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Covers how users should be included in design process including needs analysis, requirements writing, iterative testing of low/medium/high fidelity prototypes, and implementation.

  
  • PSYC 3350 - Animal Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Animal Behavior focuses on the perspectives, theories and methods of the scientific study of the mechanistic and evolutionary causes of animal behavior. It will cover topics such as foraging, parental behavior and social behaviors.

  
  • PSYC 4189 - Independent Study in Psychology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Permission of instructor required. May be taken for 1 hour of credit. For 3 hours of Independent Study credit, students should enroll in PSYC 4389 .

  
  • PSYC 4308 - Perspectives in Women’s and Gender Studies

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    General information on the wide range of issues related to the status of women. Women’s and Gender Studies course. HUMN 4308  

    No
  
  • PSYC 4314 - Child Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    Cognitive, social, and emotional development of children; psychoanalytic, behavioristic and Piagetian approaches.

  
  • PSYC 4315 - Adolescent Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Problems of role and identity in relation to adolescents’ needs for acceptance, autonomy and intimacy; special attention will be given to topics such as sexual maturation, love and friendship and drug abuse.

  
  • PSYC 4318 - Sensation and Perception

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course will expose students to the complexities and mechanism of human perception. Class will focus not only on the details of human perception but also the application of such knowledge. The design of the course will utilize applied learning techniques and will involve work outside the classroom.

  
  • PSYC 4321 - Applied Behavior Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The second course in a 4-course sequence to prepare students for the Board-Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) exam. This course covers the essential components of behavior change and specific behavior change procedures.

    Pre- or Co-requisite: PSYC 3321 .
  
  • PSYC 4322 - Applied Behavior Analysis II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The third course in a 4-course sequence to prepare students for the Board-Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) exam. Topics include: use of learning principles in applied areas such as education, business, health and human services, behavior change systems and management; and professional issues in behavior analysis.

    Pre- or Co-requisite: PSYC 3321  
  
  • PSYC 4323 - Research and Practice in Behavior Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course covers data analysis, research methods, ethics, and professional issues in behavior analysis. The course also will help prepare students to sit for the Board-Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) exam.

    Pre- or Co-requisite: PSYC 3321 .
  
  • PSYC 4327 - Practicum in Applied Behavior Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Practicum
    Fee ($): 25

    Supervised application of behavioral principals and methods in community settings. Students may enroll in this course twice.

    Pre- or Co-requisite: PSYC 3321 .
  
  • PSYC 4332 - Psychology of Work

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    Overview of the issues, problems, and practices in industrial/organizational psychology. Topics include work group dynamics, attitudes, job analysis, employee selection, performance appraisal, training and organizational development.

  
  • PSYC 4334 - Psychology of Women

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    The development of sex differences and sex roles; modern viewpoints on gender-appropriate behavior.  Cross-listed with WGST 4334  

  
  • PSYC 4341 - Human Factors Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Covers how users should be included in the design process including need analysis, requirements writing, iterative testing of low/medium/high fidelity prototype and implementation.

  
  • PSYC 4348 - Development of Gender and Racial Identity

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Explores how children and adolescents come to understand gender and race and with their changing understanding, how they incorporate gender and race into their self-concept and use them to define/categorize others.  Cross-listed with WGST 4348  

  
  • PSYC 4349 - Psychology of Latina/os in the U.S.

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the ways gender, race, culture, immigration, and social class shape the psychology of Latina/Latinos in the United States. The course will consider identity development as a psychological construct and will explore identity formation of individual Latina/os as well as group identity for multiple sub-groups of Latina/os (e. g., Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, etc.).

  
  • PSYC 4356 - The Aging Experience

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examines cross-cultural differences, retirement, generational issues, death and dying and political and social implications of the aging experience for today’s and tomorrow’s elderly. (Cross-listed with SOCI 4356 .).

  
  • PSYC 4370 - Nonexperimental Methods and Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 40

    This course will introduce you to the procedures for conducting non-experimental, correlational and qualitative, research in psychology. We will discuss nonexperimental methods and the appropriate procedures for analyzing nonexperimental data.

  
  • PSYC 4371 - Experimental Methods and Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 40

    This course will introduce students to the procedures for conducting experimental research in psychology. We will discuss the experimental method and the appropriate statistical procedures for analyzing experimental data.

  
  • PSYC 4375 - Personal Stress Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Various methodologies for stress management emphasizing personal applications.

  
  • PSYC 4382 - Cognitive Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    An empirical and theoretical examination of human cognitive processes. Possible topics include perception, memory, problem solving and artificial intelligence.

  
  • PSYC 4389 - Independent Study in Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Permission of instructor required. May be taken for 3 hours of credit. For 1 hour of Independent Study credit, students should enroll in PSYC 4189 .

  
  • PSYC 4391 - Selected Topics in Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered. Topics vary.

    May be repeated for credit.

Public Service Leadership

  
  • PSLD 4325 - Budgeting in Public Service

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the theory and practice of budgeting in the public setting.

  
  • PSLD 4326 - Human Resources

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Problems and practices in human resource management; selection, placement, evaluation, promotion and termination in the public sector.

  
  • PSLD 4327 - Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course exposes students to advanced behavioral science theories and applications in management and draws from numerous disciplines including law, psychology, sociology, economics, organization theory and statistics.

  
  • PSLD 4340 - Current Issues in Representative Bureaucracy

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course will cover both intellectual and practical bureaucratic issues facing public servants over the past decade. The topics covered in this course will provide a foundation for further academic research, as well as important knowledge of the extant research for practitioners in public organizations.

  
  • PSLD 4342 - Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of organization, planning and implementation of activities related to a project. Provides practical knowledge on managing project scope, schedule and resources.

  
  • PSLD 4343 - Public Service Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Overview of basic theories of administrative organization, relationships and behavior. How to structure, manage, direct, and control units within fire service organizations.

  
  • PSLD 4344 - Public Service Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of determinants and consequences of effective and ineffective leadership in fire service organizations.

  
  • PSLD 4345 - Strategic Planning

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Strategic planning and facilitation of organizational change in fire service organizations.

  
  • PSLD 4347 - Managerial Issues in Diversity

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Exploration of the ideas necessary for leading a diverse workforce successfully.

  
  • PSLD 4348 - Crisis and Emergency Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The focus of this course is to provide students with an understanding and overview of crisis management and the constituent elements and implications of crises that professionals may face on the personal, work, local, regional, national and international levels.

  
  • PSLD 4349 - Ethics and Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the unique ethical challenges faced by leaders with an emphasis on building ethical competency while investigating the legal aspects.

  
  • PSLD 4389 - Independent Study in Public Service Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Permission of instructor required.

  
  • PSLD 4391 - Selected Topics in Public Service Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered. Topics vary;

    may be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.

Serious Games and Simulation

  
  • GAME 1301 - Foundations of Games I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 20

    This is the first part of a year-long survey course that highlights the overall complexities and integration of elements that come together to produce a marketable game.

  
  • GAME 1302 - Foundations of Games II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 20

    This is the second part of a year-long survey course that highlights the overall complexities and integration of elements that come together to produce a marketable game. Course will include team and individual assessment.

  
  • GAME 2331 - Curriculum and Assessment for Serious Games

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of building curriculum for serious games. Students will learn to establish and assess learning outcomes while leveraging game elements and mechanics to facilitate the desired learning objectives.
    No
  
  • GAME 2332 - Gaming Interaction

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    This course addresses the various means of improving participant interaction in serous games, including controller hardware, participant control, dynamic communication replication, emotional inclusion, chronemic, audience consideration and assessment.

  
  • GAME 3301 - Game Programming I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of game programming. Topics include game engines, asset creation and management, gameplay mechanics, and multi modal interactions. Students will be expected to create basic playable games by the end of the semester.

  
  • GAME 3302 - Game Programming II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course is an introduction to the advanced concepts of game programming in immersive environments, including game engines, asset creation and management, gameplay mechanics, AI, advanced character modeling, and multimodal interactions. Prerequisites: GAME 3301 Game Programming I.

    Prerequisites: GAME 3301 Game Programming I
  
  • GAME 4279 - Senior Project I

    Credit Hours: 2 Lecture: 2

    This is the first of a two-semester sequence (Senior Project I and Senior Project II) which allows students to complete a game or simulation over the course of two semesters. Students can work individually or in small teams to complete projects that they have identified or that are provided by external stakeholders.

    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: At least 6 hours of GAME courses taken at UHCL.
  
  • GAME 4342 - Instructional Technologies

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Application of systematic procedures for designing training and instruction based on a combination of practical experience and instructional system design theory and research. A secondary emphasis will be on methods for instructional design as it applies to game design.

  
  • GAME 4369 - Motion Graphics Compositing

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    This course teaches the processes, techniques and theories of motion graphics and compositing. It covers design as it pertains to the integration of typography, imagery, sound, motion and narrative to create an animated product. Project planning, production, and postproduction are also covered. Prerequisites: ARTS 2371 Digital Photography and ARTS 3360 Graphic Design.

    Prerequisites: ARTS 2371  and ARTS 3360  
  
  • GAME 4378 - Senior Project II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This is the second of a two-semester sequence for the Senior Project in Serious Games and Simulations.

    Prerequisites: GAME 4279

Sociology

  
  • SOCI 1301 - Introduction to Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: SOCI 1301 
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Social Behavioral Science
    Fee ($): 30

    The scientific study of human society, including ways in which groups, social institutions and individuals affect each other. Causes of social stability and social change are explored through the application of various theoretical perspectives, key concepts and related research methods of sociology. Analysis of social issues in their institutional context may include topics such as social stratification, gender, race/ ethnicity and deviance.

    Prerequisites: Must meet TSI college-readiness standard for Reading or equivalent.
  
  • SOCI 1306 - Social Problems

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: SOCI 1306
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Fee ($): 15

    Application of sociological principles and theoretical perspectives to major social problems in contemporary society such as inequality, crime, and violence, substance abuse, environmental issues, deviance or family problems.

  
  • SOCI 2301 - Marriage and the Family

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Lower-level Sociology elective.

  
  • SOCI 2319 - Multi-Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Lower-level Sociology elective.

  
  • SOCI 3312 - Criminology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Theories of causation, patterns and social response.

  
  • SOCI 3316 - Global Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the way the worldwide process of globalization is connected to local economic, political and cultural practices and identities.

  
  • SOCI 3317 - Religion and Immigration Studies in Houston

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course will explore the religious diversity of Houston. Of particular interest is the diversity of religious practices new immigrants bring with them to the U.S. This diversity is not limited to variations across religious traditions but diversity within religious traditions as well. (Cross-listed with SOCI 5233.).

  
  • SOCI 3335 - Deviance

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Theories of the existence of deviance in society; management of spoiled identities.

  
  • SOCI 3351 - Political Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    The social bases of power; strategies for developing political influence; focus of power in America; relations between citizens and authorities; problems of political legitimacy.

  
  • SOCI 3352 - Urban Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The social organization of urban life and the structure of power in communities; urban problems and strategies for change.

  
  • SOCI 4306 - Service Learning

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Service Learning is a course designed for students to take an active part in organized experiences that meet actual community needs combined with academic instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility. This course will involve students in activities that address community-identified needs with service integrating academic skills.

  
  • SOCI 4308 - Perspectives in Women’s and Gender Studies

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    An interdisciplinary topics course in women’s and gender studies; topic to be determined by the instructor at time of offering. Introduces students to analytical concepts and critical approaches for understanding the lives of women and the construction of gender within larger social, political and cultural structures.

  
  • SOCI 4311 - Social Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Topics include conformity, mass communication and propaganda, self-justification, prejudice, human aggression, attraction, cooperation and competition theory, research and application.

  
  • SOCI 4312 - Social Structure: Class, Power, and Status

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    Various interpretations of America’s system of social stratification.

  
  • SOCI 4313 - Juvenile Delinquency

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Individual and community aspects of juvenile delinquency; theories of causes and modes of control.

  
  • SOCI 4316 - Women and the Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The evolution of women’s legal rights in the United States. Examination of contemporary issues in the context of human rights law. Discussion of the legal status of women in economic, political and judicial sectors. (Cross-listed with WGST 4316 .).

  
  • SOCI 4317 - Race and the Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Evolution of legal rights of race/ethnic groups in the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Examination of civil rights movement, hate crimes and Affirmative Action policy.

  
  • SOCI 4322 - Theories of Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    A review of historical and contemporary statements on the nature of society by philosophers and scientists.

  
  • SOCI 4323 - Religion in Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the major theories of religion in society and empirical research on religious membership and participation; study of issues such as secularization and the role of religion in modern society.

  
  • SOCI 4324 - Organizations in Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Study of several aspects of our organizational society such as roles, power, and membership; investigation of many types of organizations and their influence on individuals.

  
  • SOCI 4328 - Social Conflict and Mediation

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of theories of social conflict and application of dispute resolution/mediation techniques to needs of community groups, courts, churches, businesses and nongovernmental agencies.

  
  • SOCI 4329 - Egypt in Transition

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The course will expose students to the culture, history, religion, and politics of Egypt and the Middle East. It explores sociological, historical and cross-cultural forces shaping modern Egypt.

  
  • SOCI 4330 - Cultural Study Abroad

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Course will expose students to culture, history, religion, and politics of another country. Involves foreign travel and includes prerequisite of semester-long course focusing on the study-abroad country. Permission of instructor required.

  
  • SOCI 4331 - Prison and Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Correctional institutions in the United States; analysis of their changing roles and functions.

  
  • SOCI 4332 - Sociology of Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of the classic confrontation between the rights of the individual and the welfare of the greater society; and an examination of the most emotionally charged and problematic issues from the perspectives of sociological, philosophical and legal theories.

  
  • SOCI 4334 - Criminal Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Survey of structure and rationale for criminal law; topics include criminal liability, criminal defenses and types of offenses.

  
  • SOCI 4335 - Social Change and Social Movements

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course will explore macro-social historical change in American society through protest, innovation and social movements.

  
  • SOCI 4341 - Women in Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    A cross-cultural study of the environment, biological and cultural factors in the division of labor and assignment of roles, male and female. Women’s Studies Course (Cross-listed with ANTH 4341  and WGST 4341 ).

  
  • SOCI 4343 - Public Service Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Overview of basic theories of administrative organization, relationships and behavior. How to structure, manage, direct, and control units within governmental organizations. (Cross-listed with PSLD 4343 .).

  
  • SOCI 4344 - Public Service Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examination of determinants and consequences of effective and ineffective leadership in nonprofit and governmental organizations. (Cross-listed with PSLD 4344 .).

  
  • SOCI 4355 - Minorities in America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Economic, political and social status of minority subcultures; the changing nature of minority/ majority relations. May include Women’s Studies content.

  
  • SOCI 4356 - The Aging Experience

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examines cross-cultural differences, retirement, generational issues, death and dying and political and social implications of the aging experience for today’s and tomorrow’s elderly. (Cross-listed with PSYC 4356 .).

  
  • SOCI 4357 - Sociology of Family, Work, and Gender

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Exploration of the competing responsibilities of market work and family work in the contemporary United States and the role gender has on both domains.

  
  • SOCI 4358 - Family and Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Social and legal foundations of the family as an institution, examined in the context of marriage, sex roles and child rearing.

  
  • SOCI 4359 - Family Policy

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    An in-depth examination of family policy in the U.S. and the tools to analyze critically any family policy.

 

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