312 Contemporary Corrections Development of concepts of punishment, treatment. The concept of social control is analyzed from both micro and macro theoretical perspectives. Focus is on patterns of social domination. MA core course. Introduction to the use of expert system shells, designed for graduate students from any department.
Students create prototype expert systems under close supervision by faculty experts.
323 Death and Dying Death and dying explored from demographic, sociological and social psychological perspectives. 324 Sociology Of Health Systems Analyzes organization of U.S. health system and systems in the developed and developing world. Special attention to reform movements, universality, effectiveness, quality, and efficiency. 333 Social Organization Survey of approaches to the analysis of social organization emphasizing complex organizations, division of labor, social inequality, politics and the state, social change. MA core course.