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This course examines sociological perspectives and knowledge about intimate relationships, marriages, and families in contemporary society. A range of topics pertaining to love and intimate relationships across the life course will be covered in this course, including marriage and marital relations, love and intimacy, sex and sexuality, cohabitation, family dynamics, singlehood and solo living, parenting and child rearing, family conflict, divorce and relationship dissolution, and remarriage and blended families.

This course examines the social contexts of health, illness and health care. Specifically, the class consists of an overview of the subjective experience of health and illness; the political, economic, and environmental circumstances that impact health; and the societal forces that shape medical systems and people’s responses to illness.

An exploration of sexuality and the interactions among and between people and institutions that form the boundaries through which sexualities are understood in the United States and cross culturally. Considers the development of sexuality in a social context; examines the social, as opposed to psychological and/or biological, characteristics of sexuality. Includes an emphasis on sexuality as a site of inequality and oppression. Emphasis on how sexuality intersects with other identities such as race and ethnicity, sex/gender, age, socioeconomic class, ability, and nationality.

This course examines the social construction of sports as well as the impact of sports upon society. Specifically, the class consists of an overview of the social experience and patterning of sports; the political, economic, and environmental circumstances that impact sports; and the societal forces that shape sporting systems and events as well as people's responses to and interpretations of sports.

This course is the travel portion of Sociology of Sport. Students in this course will travel to a different country where they will take part in and explore sport through the lens of tourism. The focus of the course is on how international sport tourism is effecting people, cultures, and the environment in various parts of the world.

This course examines the social psychological development of children. Specifically, the class consists of an overview of the bio-social-psychological experiences of early human development; the processes, norms and agents that contribute to the socialization of children within specific social, historical, medical, and political contexts; and the ways societal forces shape the meaning and experience of childhood in contemporary societies.

Special courses may be offered each year.