Required for junior sociology and social work majors. Placements are usually arranged by the student and may include the public school system, private and public social service organizations, criminal justice system agencies, local and state governmental agencies, and businesses. Departmental consent is required. An opportunity for advanced majors to conduct individual research and data analysis projects. Focus on quantitative or qualitative data collection and analysis.
Departmental consent is required.
Fulfills the alternative line in the Perspectives on Diversity requirement and is a core course for Women s Studies minors. Begins with a cross-cultural and historical overview, looking at variations and changes in attitudes toward suicide. Review of the scope of the problem and careful analysis of theories that attempt to explain why people commit suicide. Discussions of intervention in suicidal behavioral and the question of the right to suicide. An analysis of influential sociological theories of the 19th and 20th centuries with attention to the classic theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, to the recent contemporary schools, and to the underlying patterns of thought which both unite and divide the sociological tradition.