SOC 375
Community

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Advanced Composition course.

Sociological analyses of community, focussing on the social composition, dynamics, uses, value systems, and other cultural features and collective action processes of various community types. The modern and continuing transformation of communities, including disintegration, social construction, and intentional formation, as well as persistence. Students do a small-scale community study. An intensive writing course. Prerequisite: Completion of campus Composition I general education requirement; SOC 100.