The La Roche Experience aims to provide students with the opportunity to experience and share the spirit, mission, and rich heritage of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The congregation of Divine Providence, founded in 1851, is an international community of vowed women and associates who seek to make God's Providence visible by responding to the needs of the time and co-creating a world of compassion, justice and peace.
Building on the service learning opportunities, simulation exercises, and opportunities for theological and spiritual experience of LRCX1001, the learning objective of LRCX1002 is to allow students to continue to build a common pool of metaphors through their participation in reading and discussing common texts and reflecting upon media experiences with particular emphasis to economic justice and environmental sustainability.
Study Abroad + Study U.S.A. WebsitePerhaps the most significant issue confronting Native American peoples today is that of land use. Having lost the vast majority of their ancestral lands through treaty, conquest, and forced removal, Native tribal nations subsist largely on submarginal reservation lands that are beset by an array of problems: inadequate resources, air and water pollution, assaults on sacred sites, conflicts with local, state, and federal governments and with surrounding non-Native populations, and so on. At the same time, the value many of these lands possess for coal, uranium, and other mineral and energy interests produces both positives (income and employment) and negatives (health and other risks) for the affected tribes. Finally, overarching these material issues are ethical conflicts within Native communities and between Native and non-Native communities concerning the proper spiritual relation to and use of the land.
In this course, we will explore the various issues related to contemporary Native American land use and land ethics through travel to the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, through study of print materials and conversation with Native peoples, and through community service projects on-site. This Study USA course thus provides students with insight and experience concerning an important contemporary topic, while engaging issues of diversity and discrimination, regional conflict, and economic (and particularly environmental) justice. As such, it fulfills the 1-credit LRCX1002, LRCX2001, or LRCX2002 requirement of the La Roche Experience.
Study Abroad + Study U.S.A. WebsiteThis course presents the legacies of the classical Italian and Greek civilizations, which served as the foundation of Western civilization. Students will be introduced to the history, language, music, architecture and art of these cultures in order to foster an appreciation for the Classical world. Participants will have the opportunity to experience and compare the cultural diversity of these countries and explore some of the most famous historical sites in the world.
Study Abroad + Study U.S.A. WebsiteAn overview of the architecture, design, and culture of the foreign countries to be visited. This course is offered in conjunction with a Study Abroad/USA trip. The trip will take place during the May-mester, following the completion of the course. All students must be enrolled in the s course to be eligible for the trip. The country/countries of interest will be determined for each given year.
This course introduces students to the unique character of France. The course will familiarize students with French culture; history, language, cuisine, architecture, and art. This course provides a direct experience of French culture and the unique opportunity to explore a host of French cultural and historical sites. Students will be able to test their values and perceptions as they compare the French culture to the American.
The La Roche Experience aims to provide students with the opportunity to experience and share the spirit, mission, and rich heritage of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The congregation of Divine Providence, founded in 1851, is an international community of vowed women and associates who seek to make God's Providence visible by responding to the needs of the time and co-creating a world of compassion, justice and peace.
Building on the service learning opportunities, simulation exercises, and opportunities for theological and spiritual experience of LRCX 1001, the learning objective of LRCX 1002/2001/2002 is to allow students to continue to build a common pool of metaphors through their participation in reading and discussing common texts and reflecting upon real experiences with particular emphasis to Diversity/Discrimination, a Region of Conflict or Economic Justice
This course takes students to Istanbul, Turkey to experience the city's rich history, especially as a cultural meeting point between east and west. The city's glorious past, first under the Byzantine Empire, and later as the seat of the great Ottoman Empire, would expose students to the conflation of European and Islamic civilizational influences in a modern cosmopolitan center.
This travel course to sites in Germany and Poland, including the former Auschwitz concentration camp, provides students an opportunity to explore the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Supplemental readings, writings, and service learning projects will enable students to examine how individuals affected by the Holocaust have borne witness to genocide through literature and memory.
This Study Abroad course offers the students an opportunity for a hands-on approach to marketing a product or service in an international environment. The course will enhance student understanding of cultural values and behaviors associated with marketing in a particular international environment.
The course will expose students to the history, language, religion, cuisine, art and architecture of these regions. Visiting these cities, with site specific commentary by local guides, will expand students' comprehension and appreciation of historically significant sites. Students will be able to test their values and perceptions as they compare these other cultures to our own.
Finland's educational system churns out students who consistently top the world in mathematics and science test scores. The country's increasingly diverse public school classrooms average about 30 students, yet students spend only a few hours inside the class and receive less homework than any other group of students anywhere in the developed world. What's the secret? It begins with understanding Finland's most revered profession - teaching. This course takes us to schools and government offices in the city of Helsinki, where we are able to observe classes in session and hold conversations with students and teachers. Our trip will also take us to interesting and quaint places around the city to help us explore the culture and history of Finland, whose community-oriented society provides the premise for a very healthy and happy country.
Travel course is a first person interdisciplinary exploration of professional business presentations and communications as they are conducted. This will specifically highlight the planning, presentation, and broadcast/podcasting of communications, including media interviews, political and government communications, and trade/professional speeches. This course offers students a first-person opportunity to expand their professional presentations education and to learn more about how to present effective messaging.
Spring 2019 May trip to China
SP19 travel to Arizona in May
The La Roche Experience aims to provide students with the opportunity to experience and share the spirit, mission, and rich heritage of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The congregation of Divine Providence, founded in 1851, is an international community of vowed women and associates who seek to make God's Providence visible by responding to the needs of the time and co-creating a world of compassions, justice and peace. Building on the service learning opportunities, simulation exercises, and opportunities for theological and spiritual experience of LRCX 1001, the learning objective of LRCX 1002/2001/2002 is to allow students to continue to build a common poor of metaphors through their participation in reading and discussing common texts and reflecting upon real experiences with particular emphasis to Diversity/Discrimination and Economic Justice.
This course will involve a trip to an international location, whereby students will explore firsthand the political, legal and business environments of a particular nation. The course may include visits to various political, legal and business institutions coupled with possible lectures and presentations from politicians, judges, lawyers and business professionals. The length of the study abroad experience will be approximately 7 to 15 days and may occur at the end of the semester or during a spring, summer or fall break period.
Communities are not just about people. A biological community refers to all populations of all species occupying a specified area. Biological communities evolve as a dynamic interaction among all living things in a particular location and within the constraints of their natural environment. This course will examine the geography, climate and interactions among all living things (human and nonhuman) in a particular natural community. Participants will be able to observe, first hand, the diversity of wildlife and environmental conditions that gave rise to the natural community. The course will promote, through experiential learning, an understanding of the interdependence among all living things and their environment and the impact of human activity on the rest of the natural world.
SP19 Trip to Hungary in May
SP19 trip to Hungary in May
SP19 Trip to Iceland during Spring Break
SP19 trip to Costa Rica
This course emphasizes statistical, technological, and managerial tools and concepts that encompass the entire supply chain in the global business environment. Topics include quality theory, quality tools, and managing quality improvement teams and projects. Implementing and validating a quality system will also be addressed.
This course is an introduction to the study of society through the critical analysis of social relations, behavior, and organization. It is designed to facilitate students to develop a broad knowledge of how social structures and human behavior influence each other, as well as to identify the issues that arise from such interactions. In order for students to critically analyze contemporary social issues and problems, such discussions will focus along the dimensions of race, class, and gender. No prior knowledge of sociology is expected.
This course is a study of current social problems that take place across the globe. It emphasizes the application of sociological concepts to the critical analysis of social issues and problems in contemporary societies throughout the world, including the US. Cross-listed with SLSO1007
A study of the social relationships of racial, ethnic, religious and other minority groups with emphasis on personal, cultural and social development.
A study of the social relationships of racial, ethnic, religious and other minority groups with emphasis on personal, cultural and social development.
Work and occupations are examined in historical and contemporary contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the characteristics of professions and the attempts of occupations to professionalize. Focus will be on the macro level (the effects of advancements in technology, bureaucratization and unionization on the division of labor), the microlevel (job satisfaction and alienation), and on the interface between macro and micro levels (do individuals of equal ability have equal access to prestige careers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, or other attributes).
This course reviews current issues and problems in law enforcement and interrelations with the society-at-large and cultural/ethnic sub-groups. It examines informal exercise of police authority or force, governmental/agency policies, legal requirements, role demands and conflicts experienced by police officers, and the norms of the police sub-culture. Cross-listed with CRIM2016
Using sociological theories and concepts, this course analyzes how society defines and organizes sports. This course also looks at how sports as a (local and globalized) social activity influences important aspects of our lives such as family, education, politics, the economy, media, and religion. It also examines how sports participation affects our ideas about, among other things, gender, class, ethnicity, conformity, and violence.
This course will offer an analysis of Juvenile Delinquency and the juvenile justice system. It will examine the theories of the causes of juvenile crime and the processes of the juvenile justice system. Cross-listed with CRIM2030
The course presents a study of the causes and consequences of political, economic and social inequality. The systematic ranking of individuals and aggregates is analyzed. Institutional and non-institutional determinants of inequality are examined so as to understand the distribution of wealth, status and prestige in society.
The course examines sociological theories, with emphasis on the works of Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and G.H. Mead and other major contributions to sociological thought.
An introduction to the field of sociological practice. Provides an understanding of micro and macro sociological theory and how it is used to assess, analyze, and diagnose human problems. Introduces students to casework and problem solving with small groups, organizations, and families. Acquaints students with the broad range of professional opportunities for the sociological practitioner.
In this course, the basic beliefs of Islam are reviewed, along with a brief history of Islam's overall development and its impact on the world and on various civilizations in different global regions. Islam's internal sects are analyzed, and its political impact on current politics in the world is explored. The role of U.S. foreign policy in dealing with the recent rise of Islam is also analyzed. Cross-listed with HIST/POLI2045
A general introduction to social gerontology with emphasis upon the normal aspects of aging. Review of current hypotheses and findings concerning the aging processes are addressed.
A study of the role of social services in contemporary society. This course is designed to assist students in exploring theories, practices and careers in the helping professions.
Sociological study of what we mean by culture is taken and critically applied to the discussion of global-historical transformations in human social development, from the period of simple societies to the present age of complex, industrial, and globalized societies.
This course has a social problem orientation. The material deals with the major unmet needs of older people. The approach focuses upon the current status of older people in American society, identifies the deficiencies in particular areas and examines the resources available to the aged to deal with specific problems.
The study and analysis of the health care system, including the definitions and behaviors in health and disease, the types and roles of practitioners and the forms and problems of health care delivery. Contemporary issues in American health care are examined.
Work and occupations are examined in historical and contemporary contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the characteristics of professions and the attempts of occupations to professionalize. Focus will be on the macro level (the effects of advancements in technology, bureaucratization and unionization on the division of labor), the microlevel (job satisfaction and alienation), and on the interface between macro and micro levels (do individuals of equal ability have equal access to prestige careers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, or other attributes).
This course examines major research methods. The student will be exposed to the development and evaluation of research design and conclusions, conducting of research, preparation of research papers and ethics in research. The emphasis will be on survey methods, participant observation and ethnographic research. Cross-listed with INST3011
This course is a topical overview of some of the diverse areas of inquiry grouped under the general heading death and dying. The basic purpose of this course is to help students understand grief, loss, dying, and death-both as an objective fact and as it relates to their own personal experiences-and to apply this understanding to their common experiences. The social, cultural, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying will be examined from an interdisciplinary, but mostly social psychological and sociological perspective with the goal of enhancing the meaning of life and living. Cross-listed with PSYC3020.
This course is an introduction to the field of women's studies that focuses on the significance of gender in shaping the culture, society, and influence of the United States. Drawing upon a diverse set of theories, methods, and approaches from the social sciences, this course focuses primarily on the interrelated dynamics of gender at both the individual and societal levels in the United States, although we will view this country from both a comparative and an international perspective, showing how gender-related social and cultural phenomena vary across countries. Among the topics covered are cultural norms and values, socialization, interpersonal behavior, strategies of power and influence, gender-based violence, sexuality and reproduction, and social institutions such as the family, workplaces, government, education, religion and the media.
A sociological analysis of the family with emphasis on historical trends and contemporary family life in the United States. The study includes family relationships and functions, family disorganization and change, with an overview of the family as a major social institution.
This course addresses the scientific study of human behavior, cognition and emotion as it is shaped by the psychosocial environment. Topics include social cognition, group dynamics, interpersonal attraction, conformity, aggression, prejudice, persuasion, and helping behavior. Cross-listed with PSYC3029
An examination of the etiology and major theories of criminality, with special reference to the rational choice, routine activity, biological and psychosocial theories of deviance. This course will examine criminal deviance by analyzing both criminal and victim populations, with particular emphasis on crime typology and the analysis of criminal behavior. The responses of the Criminal Justice System and private security experts to criminal behavior from situational crime prevention techniques to correctional treatment methods are explored and discussed. Cross-listed with CRIM3030
An analytical presentation of religion as a social institution emphasizing the function of religion in society and its relationship to the conflict and change that characterize modern American life.
A study of the causes and consequences of addictions. The relationship of public policy to addictions in society, the family, and the workplace is analyzed. Addictions are viewed as ingestive (alcohol, drugs, eating disorders) and/or behavioral (gambling, sexual, workaholism). Societal responses are explored.
This course addresses the social and psychological conditions, which give rise to the physical abuse of children and adults. The principal focus is an examination of child abuse and neglect, battered spouses, victims of rape and assault and victims in institutions. The effects on the individual and possible societal responses are also explored.
The course is designed to familiarize the student with the social bases of political power. Politics is viewed as a process in relation to the social and economic structures, which influence its direction. A consideration of the effects which politics has on these structures is also offered. A detailed analysis of the primacy of politics in the 20th century is included. Cross-listed with POLI3039
In this course we examine why ethnic groups sometimes get along very well, but other times engage in conflict. We query: What are the political and social origins of ethnic conflicts in various parts of the world? Do ethnic conflicts differ in different world regions? What national and international policies encourage ethnic conflict? How can we encourage ethnic groups to pursue peaceful accommodations? Cross-listed with POLI3040
This course examines the social dynamics of urbanization, urban social structure, and urban development. It analyzes, through various theories of urban sociology, the city as a form of social organization and as centers of economic and political processes. It also looks at how globalization has impacted various cities around the world in terms of their growths and declines.
This course is a critical analysis of education as a social institution. It looks at the interactive relations between education and the social dimensions of class, race, ethnicity, and gender, both in the US and in selected countries around the world.
This course looks at the history of social, political and economic development of Southeast Asia, excluding Indochina, and focusing primarily on Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It will discuss the contingent and dependent nature of development of these countries under the larger framework of global capitalism, and how such development affects the national historical experiences of these countries. Cross-listed with HIST/POLI3025
This course is designed to provide an approach to study and analyze the interactions between society and the environment, and the political economic impacts of environmental problems. Focus will be on both the social causes of and social responses to various environmental problems, at the local, national, and global levels.
This course examines the origin, growth, and dynamics of social movements as forms of social protest and resistance against state and global injustices. Discussions include case studies of various social and political groups, non-government organizations, and liberation and revolutionary movements in the US and throughout the world. Cross-listed with POLI3082
A collection of courses covering a broad range of topics in advanced sociology, offered according to student need and interest. The precise title is announced during registration period for any given term.
A field experience in a social institution. The students are given the opportunity to integrate their theoretical knowledge with practical application under the guidance of professionals at the particular institution where they are assigned.
A field experience in a social institution. The students are given the opportunity to integrate their theoretical knowledge with practical application under the guidance of professionals at the particular institution where they are assigned.
A course designed to assist students in culminating and synthesizing their study of sociology on the undergraduate level through independent readings, research and class discussion. Required for sociology majors. Cross-listed with INST4055
Individual research supervised by a full-time faculty member.
This course is limited to those few students who have demonstrated an unusual level of ability and an intense commitment to a particular area.
Intended to develop an understanding of and facility in the preparation, organization, delivery and criticism of speeches.
A course in the theory and practice of the interpretation of prose, drama and poetry.
In this course, students will study and practice the fundamentals of speech communication including listening, speaking, collaborating, and presenting information effectively. Through classroom communication, face-to-face discussion, group dynamics, and classroom leadership activities, students will gain confidence in oral self-expression by employing verbal and nonverbal communication messages in a variety of settings (i.e., intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and public contexts). Students will also learn how to communicate effectively using appropriate current technologies.
A course in improvisational drama with emphasis on educational and motivational skills, games and the performing arts. Workshop participation is expected.
Intended to acquaint the student with basic concepts essential for effective communication in small groups, to increase the student's ability to examine and evaluate small group interactions and to develop communication skills through participation in small group discussions.
An aesthetic and practical study of theater that examines various styles and forms of drama and theatrical productions.