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The Department of Sociology is part of the College of Arts & Sciences at
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The University of
Classes taught by Dr. Schwartz
SOC 287 Sociology of Sexuality
is an undergraduate course that examines what stake a given society has in
seeing sexuality the way it does and how that is expressed in the social
control of sexual acts. We look at societal norms and values and how people
have embraced or rejected then - and why.
SOC 352 The Family is an
undergraduate lecture course focusing on the family as a social institution,
including historical changes and societal variation in family patterns, changes
over the life cycle, and alternative family forms.
SOC 487 & SOC 553 Gender and
Sexuality is taught at both the graduate and undergraduate level: male and
female patterns of sexual expectation, expression, norms, and problems.
Sociological issues for single, married, cohabiting, and dating individuals;
same sex and opposite sex relationships. The politics and social policy of
sexuality in history and contemporary society.
SOC 550 Changing Patterns of
Family Organization is a graduate course on the history of the family, with
emphasis on changes in European and American families since 1600. Also covers
concomitant changes in other institutions and their relation to changes in the
family.
SOC 551 Sociology of Families
is a graduate course which offers an overview of major research findings on
marriage and the family, including demographic trends, the place of children in
society, courtship, divorce, and gender roles.
SOC 590 Intimate Relationships is a graduate course which
offers an overview of different types of relationships both hetero and
homosexual.
For availability and status of these and other sociology department classes,
check the Autumn 2009 Quarterly
Time Schedule.