The printed version of the Augsburg College Catalog is the only official version, and it will be treated as the document of record in all college business. You may also wish to visit the Augsburg On-line Catalog , which has been adapted from the printed catalog and provides information on all academic programs. Sociology offers insights into discovering the world and one's place in it. Course study focuses on an understanding of culture, social structure, institutions, and our interactions with each other. The cultural and structural dynamics of the Twin Cities are a basis for exploring this possibility.
Students prepare and deliver oral reports on world and American family topics.
This course focuses on both the collective and individual processes involved in social inequality. SOC 295 Cultures of Violence Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and terrorism. This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis and concludes with an examination of non-violent alternatives to conflict.