Course Description
SOC225
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Social Issues
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This course will examine selected social issues or problems and their
effects on the individual and society. The issues will be selected from the
following three areas:
1) Systemic issues: racial and sexual discrimination, inequality and poverty,
militarization and war, ecological problems, overpopulation, urban and rural
problems, life cycle issues.
2) Issues of specific institutions: government, economics, family, education,
religion, social science, sports and leisure, medical ethics.
3) Personal pathological issues: mental illness, suicide, alcoholism and drug
addictions, violence and crime.
All of these issues will not be covered in one term. The selection will be
directly related to an in-depth study of one or more of these issues as they
are related to the course emphasis within the specific term.
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