RSOC 110
Intro to Rural Society

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
UIUC Social Sciences course.

Basic concepts for understanding and analyzing rural society; topics include changes in major rural institutions, impacts of technological change on rural people and communities, demographic patterns and trends, migration, rural minorities and subcultures, the city-countryside relationship, emerging controversies and conflicts in rural areas, and cross-cultural comparisons of rural life.