An
introduction to studies of the ways that people have cultivated
and understood themselves.
Course will include a brief look at the evidence
of antiquity of mankind, at gendering, symbolic communications,
beliefs and values, kinds and consequences of various social
formations - bands, families, tribes, clans, nations, etc.,
and we will study forces that diminish our diversity and increase
our contacts: globalization.
We
will study the development of thought on social matters, the
emergence of sociology as a distinct discipline, and we will
practice the application of the sociological perspective to
common concerns: patterns of growing up, making/unmaking families,
social malevolences and injustices - structured deprivation,
rites and dynamics of group exclusion/inclusion.
We will look at ways of making a living, the
patterned care/neglect of dependents, economic and social
marginalization processes. Students will study the ways in
which race, class and gender, communications are generated
and used within and between societies.We
will note the construction of social categories, and study
the institutions that manage and mismanage, nurture and abuse,
produce or counterproduce, the objects of their creation.
Senior
Research Seminar is a gathering of students who are near completion
of their baccalaureate work. Students will select a topic in
their major field of studies for independent research and writing.
The senior seminar will require a major research paper, and
collaborative contribution to the research of colleagues and
classmates.
A
look at the kinds of issues, events, patterns that are seen
to be problems that are social.
Impoverishment,;chronic widespread inequity;
differential experiences of health and sickness and mortality;
violences, random and structured; family problems; deviances;
This
course is designed as an introduction to the basic principles
of sociology with emphasis on human relationships in urban,
corporate, civil and industrial settings.
The
distinct personal experience of one's own family life, the
unique experience of each marriage partnership are the foundations
of any understanding we, individually, have of these states.
Yet we recognize that the safety, health, prosperity of our
larger communities depends on, as well as profoundly effects,
these intimate relationships.
We know that the very notions of what a family
is, is undergoing change and reavaluation. Marriage also as
a customary institution, one that has served over the past
few generations to be the foundational condition for most
families, is undergoing rapid change. We will be examining,
with great respect for each individual's own experience of
family and partnership, the changing nature of families and
marriages, the forces that are influencing these changes,
and the capacity of individuals to choose and commit to family
relationships and marriage relationships at these historically
transformative times.
An
awareness of social and cultural diversity colors much of
our experience as citizens of the globe.
Within American society issues of gender,
race, religion and class have often undermined our attempts
to"...form a more perfect society...." More than ever we are
aware that, individually we will need to live and work in
a multi-cultural, multi-linguistic society; and we are aware
that, as citizens we will need to build the social institutions
and processes that are inclusive and fair to people of every
tongue and tradition. This course will explore our experiences
of that kind of diversity.
This
course will be an introduction to the field of social work.
We will examine the history of this effort, the social conditions
which brought social work , social welfare and social services
into existence.
We will study as well as practice the skills necessary to
generalist social work practice. We will study those theories
that support the activities of a social worker and that are
considered best practices.
We will examine the various practices of social workers -
casework, family and group work, advocacy, public and social
welfare administration, and community development.
Class will study the organizations and institutions in society
that employ social workers in their primary or adjunctive
functions.
This
course will examine the border between self and other; between
individuals and their associations; between the individual
and the social formation.
During this course we will study the social
construction of conduct and the ways in which behavior is
given meaning and consequences. We will examine the usefulness
of Systems Theory in understanding the regularity of behavior.
We will look at Role Theory and dramaturgical explanations
for conduct, and we will examine attempts to understand how
actions can be both free and, at the same time, constrained.
This
course of studies will be about the emergence of the modern
notions of health, illness, healing and care, and how those
conditions and activities have become embedded in distinct
institutions.
We will study the social institutions and
systems within which the management of, as well as the definition
of, fitness, suffering and death are mediated. We will look
at vernacular ways of tending to the sick and dying, and we
will look at modernized systems, with emphasis on social and
cultural institutions, beliefs and customs that are applied
to the sick, the halt, the lame and dying.
An
introduction to studies of the ways that people have cultivated
and understood themselves. 
We
will study the development of thought on social matters, the
emergence of sociology as a distinct discipline, and we will
practice the application of the sociological perspective to
common concerns: patterns of growing up, making/unmaking families,
social malevolences and injustices - structured deprivation,
rites and dynamics of group exclusion/inclusion.
Senior
Research Seminar is a gathering of students who are near completion
of their baccalaureate work. Students will select a topic in
their major field of studies for independent research and writing.
The senior seminar will require a major research paper, and
collaborative contribution to the research of colleagues and
classmates.
A
look at the kinds of issues, events, patterns that are seen
to be problems that are social. 
This
course is designed as an introduction to the basic principles
of sociology with emphasis on human relationships in urban,
corporate, civil and industrial settings.
The
distinct personal experience of one's own family life, the
unique experience of each marriage partnership are the foundations
of any understanding we, individually, have of these states.
Yet we recognize that the safety, health, prosperity of our
larger communities depends on, as well as profoundly effects,
these intimate relationships. 
An
awareness of social and cultural diversity colors much of
our experience as citizens of the globe. 
This
course will be an introduction to the field of social work.
We will examine the history of this effort, the social conditions
which brought social work , social welfare and social services
into existence. 
This
course will examine the border between self and other; between
individuals and their associations; between the individual
and the social formation. 
This
course of studies will be about the emergence of the modern
notions of health, illness, healing and care, and how those
conditions and activities have become embedded in distinct
institutions.