SOCI 231 — Social Problems
This course explores the ways that social issues become defined as social problems and it looks at the consequences of those definitions. Students will identify and analyze a wide range of domestic as well as international social problems and they will develop tentative solutions to those problems. Problems associated with the following topics may be considered: the economy, politics, work, family, education, urban living, social class, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, the media, the criminal justice system, drugs, health, and aging. Global problems related to population, global inequality, technology, the environment, war, and terrorism will also be addressed.