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| Sociology, University of Wisconsin | Marriage and Family (online course) - broaden and deepen students’ understanding of marriage and family from the social scientific perspective. Here, the principal but not exclusive focus upon the American variations of marriage and family, but the course also incorporates a variety of comparative marriage and family forms and explores the racial and ethnic variations that are integral to contemporary American society.
Racial and Ethnic Minorities (online course). The course examines the interaction of social and cultural groups in America; processes leading to group contact, characteristics, and contributions of ethnic groups in the United States; sources of prejudice mechanisms and problems of group adjustment; contemporary status of principal minority groups; and proposals for reduction of intergroup tensions.
Law and Society (online course) – analyzes the origins and functions of the law in society. Here, students examine modern American society and the relationship of law to social change and its impact on concerns such as civil rights, environmental protection, sex-role differentiation, and treatment of the mentally ill and the disabled.
Methods of Sociological Inquiry. It is a print-based course with e-mail Option. It introduces the basic concepts and theory of social research methods and covers the main research designs used in social research.The course begins with an overview of the research process, a discussion of how social research methods differ from other ways of collecting information, and an exploration of socialization and development over the life course. The course concludes with an examination of how multiple methods, data analysis, and reporting results are used in sociological research. The course looks at three primary concepts of social research (measurement, causation, and sampling) and three specific research designs commonly used in social research (observation, surveys, and experiments).
Criminal Justice in America - surveys the criminal justice system in the United States from a sociological perspective. It examines issues relating to various segments of the criminal justice system, such as the classification of crime, the societal impact of crime, the administration of justice, the police, the courts, and the correctional systems. The first three units of the course provide foundational materials that are basic to any course related to crime and criminal behavior. The last seven units focus upon the criminal justice system itself.
Death, Grief, and Bereavement (online course) – provides a scholarly understanding of the social processes in death and dying, both in terms of one`s own death and that of others. The course was designed to acquaint students with the sociological view of societies, provide a framework for better understanding social situations, offer an approach to decision-making that is based in values, and present the various topics in the field of death and dying from a sociological perspective. A research paper is required.
Introduction to Social Psychology (online course) - eexamines basic psychological factors in social behavior, including social perception, attitudes, prejudice, discrimination, attraction, social influence, modeling, prosocial behavior, aggression, sexual behavior, social exchange, and group behavior. This course may also be taken for psychology credit.
These courses consist of 3 credits. Each of them lasts for 1 year.
Tuition fee - $855 per 1 course.
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