Sociology (SOCI)
SOCI 1000 Human Relations: People Skills
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
This course focuses on soft-skills training. Thirteen areas for skill improvement in human relations (people-skills) are studied. These major universal training needs are shared by most managerial, business, professional, technical and sales personnel. The training needs include understanding individual differences, interpersonal communication, teamwork skills, problem solving, cross-cultural relations, effective leadership, motivating self and others, helping others develop, positive political skills, personal productivity, stress management, customer service skills and enhancing ethical behavior. This is a practical working course that provides students with service learning experiences.
SOCI 1010 Intro to Sociology
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Introduction to the basic principles of sociology, including the study of sociological research, theoretical perspectives, culture, socialization, social structure, social institutions, deviance, social inequity, stratification, demography, population, and social movements.
SOCI 1020 Diversity Consciousness
1.0 credit hours
15.0 Classroom Hours = 15.0 Lecture Hours
In this course students will examine how diversity, in its many forms, presents both challenges and opportunities in schools, the workplace, and within larger society. Content focuses on competencies in the form of awareness, understanding and skills that maximize resources and empower individuals and groups with a wide variety of interests, talents, and cultural backgrounds. This course is designed for students who are seeking to fulfill the human relations requirements required to obtain a local substitute teaching certificate from the Nebraska Department of Education.
SOCI 1130 Introduction to Social Work
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
A history of social work. Includes the development of the field through our English and early American heritage. Social work defined in relation to its functions, areas of interest, and goals in American society.
SOCI 2010 Social Problems
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
An analysis of the origins and social contexts of social problems. Study will focus on the socially constructed nature of social problems, application of sociological theory and the importance of critically evaluating social problems and solutions.
SOCI 2120 Drugs, Society & Human Behavior
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
A survey of licit and illicit drugs and their effects on animals and human physiology (particularly the nervous system). Psychological theories that account for drug usage and abuse and sociocultural relationships accounting for drug usage will also be explored, as well as co-dependent others that live with drug dependent individuals.
SOCI 2150 Exploring Unity & Diversity
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
This course will help students increase awareness and sensitivity of commonalities and differences among people and acquire knowledge of social structure and inequalities. The course will prepare students to more critically, actively, and effectively participate in an increasingly diverse and global society.
SOCI 2250 Marriage & Fam Relationships
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Important traditional and contemporary aspects of male-female roles and relationships and the implications for modern day courtship and marriage. Emphasis on changing functions of the family and problems of adjustment of rapidly changing social values.
SOCI 2980 Directed Study
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Directed Study
SOCI 2990 Special Topics
3.0 credit hours
45.0 Classroom Hours = 45.0 Lecture Hours
Special topic course description upon request.