The Sociology program offers a menu of summer courses, including seven online courses for Ohio University students.
SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
Multiple sections | First & Second Summer Sessions
Description: This course covers the nature of human society and factors affecting its development. It includes fundamental concepts of sociology: culture, personality, socialization, social organization, groups, institutions.
SOC 2600 Criminal Justice ONLINE
Class #4928 | First Summer Session
Description: This course examines structures and decision processes of agencies that deal with crime and criminal offenders. An emphasis is placed on how practice is based on politically derived public policies and how sociology can be used to analyze the practice of these agencies. Topics include criminal law, policing, court systems, sentencing, and corrections.
SOC 2610 Deviant Behavior
Class #4929 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers theory and research concerning the social processes through which behaviors and statuses come to be defined as deviant, individuals become identified as deviants, and social control practices are directed toward perceived deviants. Case studies include specific categories of deviant behavior, including criminality, suicide, drug addiction, and mental disorders.
SOC 3000 Development of Sociological Theory ONLINE
Class #4925 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course offers an introduction to sociological theory. Students examine the historical roots of sociological theory and understand major theoretical paradigms with an emphasis on social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis.
SOC 3270 Sociology of Education ONLINE
Class #4940 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers school as social institution in relation to community and development of child; comparative systems of education; issues of access and inequality in delivery of educational services.
SOC 3500 Elementary Research Techniques ONLINE
Class #4936 | First Summer Session
Description: This course introduces the techniques employed by social scientists to identify research problems, gather data, analyze data, and reach conclusions about their research ideas. Topics include how to identify a research problem, ways to develop data gathering procedures, techniques of gathering data, ways to summarize data, and ways to analyze data. The overall goal is to provide the tools to be able to design and carry out a research project.
SOC 3600 Criminology ONLINE
Class #4934 | First Summer Session
Description: This course covers theories and research in criminal behavior and societal reaction to criminality, as well as causes and consequences of crime.
SOC 3660 Punishment and Society ONLINE
Class #4935 | First Summer Session
Description: This course examines history, operation, and problems of punishment. Patterns of prison organization, inmate group structure, personnel organization, and racism are examined. Purpose and effectiveness of penal institutions are described. Prisons, juvenile institutions, parole, halfway houses, and alternatives to punishment are studied.
SOC 3680X Immigration and Crime ONLINE
Class #4937 | First Summer Session
Description: This course provide students with the basic knowledge about how immigration and crime intersect. The students first learn the fundamentals of immigration, to include the basic history of immigration in the United States, the push and pull factors that bring immigrants to the United States, and contemporary issues relating to modern-day immigrants. The course then covers the ways in which immigrants come in contact with the criminal justice system in this country.
SOC 4910 Internship in Sociology & Criminology
Class #4938 | Summer – variable
Description: This course provides internship experience for students majoring in sociology, criminology/sociology, and sociology-prelaw. Students have the opportunity to apply social science knowledge in working with law, business, criminal justice, non-profit, social service, and other organizations.
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