Sociology Courses
IHSC 300: Synthesis of Premedical Concepts
This course aims to hone skills necessary to synthesize and integrate knowledge across multiple subject areas, and to assist in preparing for health professional school admission, such as the MCAT. The course is team taught to include faculty expertise in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, English, mathematics, physics, psychological sciences and sociology. Critical analysis and reasoning skills will be emphasized. Completion of introductory courses in all subject areas above is strongly recommended before taking this course. MCAT materials from the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) will be used to guide and enhance a student’s ability to synthesize across many fields, and increase critical reasoning and analytical competencies.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 9:30-1:30pm
Instructor: Jennifer Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Physics, Psychological Sciences, Sociology
SOCI 101: Introduction to Sociology
This course examines the basic principles that underlie how sociologists look at the world: “The Sociological Imagination”. It addresses the basic questions: How is social order possible and how does change occur? The course is designed as a foundation for further study in field of sociology and related disciplines. It introduces the student to the role that culture and social institutions play in modern society and examines important concepts such as socialization, deviance, social control, patterned inequalities and social change. These concepts are discussed in the context of both contemporary and historical social theories. Additionally, the student will be introduced to the methods of inquiry used by practicing sociologists.
Dates: June 5 - July 3, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 1-3:55pm
Instructor: Polina Ermoshkina
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 10:30-1:00pm
Instructor: Nathalie Nya
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 202: Race and Ethnicity in The United States
This is a survey course that looks at the relations between racial and ethnic relations in the United States from an historical and contemporary perspective. This course will look at relations between: European colonists and native Americans; whites and blacks during the period of slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights era and contemporary period; immigrants at the turn of the 20th and 21st century; Mexicans and Puerto Ricans; and the pan-ethnic groups such as Latinos, Asian Americans, and Arab Americans. We examine the origins of racial/ethnic hierarchies, the social construction of identities, and stratification of racial and ethnic groups. This course will take a macro perspective that examines larger structural forces (e.g., colonization, industrialization, and immigration) to explain inter-group relations, and a constructionist perspective to understand how power manufactures and maintains the social meaning of identities (looking at stereotypes and hegemonic discourse). Students who have received credit for SOCI 302 may not receive credit for SOCI 202.
Offered as AFST 202 and SOCI 202.
Dates: July 12 - August 9, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (2)
Dates:
Session: Online
Time: MTW 12:30-3:25
Instructor: Donald Hutcherson
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 208: Dating, Marriage and Family
What is the family today? How has it changed over the last century? How will it change in the future? This course aims to answer these questions as it explores the influences of work, education, government, health and religion on today’s changing families. The course considers the factors that affect mate selection. It also examines parenting, roles of husbands and wives, and family dysfunction, and divorce.
Dates: June 5 - July 3, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 10:00-12:55pm
Instructor: Casey Schroeder-Jenkinson
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 250: Law and Society: Law, Rights and Policy
How does the U.S. legal system “work”? How does a judge make a decision? Do rights matter? Do human rights work the same way? Class participants will examine how rights, including human rights, fit in the legal system and society. We will ask how legal actors, like judges and lawyers, think about rights compared to non-lawyers. Class participants will observe court hearings in a Federal District Court, an Ohio Appellate Court, as well as local small claims court. We will benefit from hearing experts, local, national, and international, discuss how “law” works and whether rights are useful to making change.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Brian Gran
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
IHSC 300: Synthesis of Premedical Concepts
This course aims to hone skills necessary to synthesize and integrate knowledge across multiple subject areas, and to assist in preparing for health professional school admission, such as the MCAT. The course is team taught to include faculty expertise in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, English, mathematics, physics, psychological sciences and sociology. Critical analysis and reasoning skills will be emphasized. Completion of introductory courses in all subject areas above is strongly recommended before taking this course. MCAT materials from the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) will be used to guide and enhance a student’s ability to synthesize across many fields, and increase critical reasoning and analytical competencies.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 9:30-1:30pm
Instructor: Jennifer Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Physics, Psychological Sciences, Sociology
SOCI 101: Introduction to Sociology
This course examines the basic principles that underlie how sociologists look at the world: “The Sociological Imagination”. It addresses the basic questions: How is social order possible and how does change occur? The course is designed as a foundation for further study in field of sociology and related disciplines. It introduces the student to the role that culture and social institutions play in modern society and examines important concepts such as socialization, deviance, social control, patterned inequalities and social change. These concepts are discussed in the context of both contemporary and historical social theories. Additionally, the student will be introduced to the methods of inquiry used by practicing sociologists.
Dates: June 5 - July 3, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 1-3:55pm
Instructor: Polina Ermoshkina
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 10:30-1:00pm
Instructor: Nathalie Nya
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 202: Race and Ethnicity in The United States
This is a survey course that looks at the relations between racial and ethnic relations in the United States from an historical and contemporary perspective. This course will look at relations between: European colonists and native Americans; whites and blacks during the period of slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights era and contemporary period; immigrants at the turn of the 20th and 21st century; Mexicans and Puerto Ricans; and the pan-ethnic groups such as Latinos, Asian Americans, and Arab Americans. We examine the origins of racial/ethnic hierarchies, the social construction of identities, and stratification of racial and ethnic groups. This course will take a macro perspective that examines larger structural forces (e.g., colonization, industrialization, and immigration) to explain inter-group relations, and a constructionist perspective to understand how power manufactures and maintains the social meaning of identities (looking at stereotypes and hegemonic discourse). Students who have received credit for SOCI 302 may not receive credit for SOCI 202.
Offered as AFST 202 and SOCI 202.
Dates: July 12 - August 9, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (2)
Dates:
Session: Online
Time: MTW 12:30-3:25
Instructor: Donald Hutcherson
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 208: Dating, Marriage and Family
What is the family today? How has it changed over the last century? How will it change in the future? This course aims to answer these questions as it explores the influences of work, education, government, health and religion on today’s changing families. The course considers the factors that affect mate selection. It also examines parenting, roles of husbands and wives, and family dysfunction, and divorce.
Dates: June 5 - July 3, 2023
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 10:00-12:55pm
Instructor: Casey Schroeder-Jenkinson
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology
SOCI 250: Law and Society: Law, Rights and Policy
How does the U.S. legal system “work”? How does a judge make a decision? Do rights matter? Do human rights work the same way? Class participants will examine how rights, including human rights, fit in the legal system and society. We will ask how legal actors, like judges and lawyers, think about rights compared to non-lawyers. Class participants will observe court hearings in a Federal District Court, an Ohio Appellate Court, as well as local small claims court. We will benefit from hearing experts, local, national, and international, discuss how “law” works and whether rights are useful to making change.
Dates: May 15 - June 2, 2023
Session: May Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Brian Gran
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Sociology