SOC 4113 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 4113 is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 4113 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2021 | SOC 4113 Section 001: Sociology of Violence: Bedrooms, Backyards, and Bars (63646)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- soph or jr or sr
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (79 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course looks at violent behavior across a wide variety of social arenas, bedrooms, backyards, and bars, being some common places where violence occurs. Students will wrestle with definitions of violence and the circumstances in which behavior is or isn't categorized as violent. A major theme will be how violence operates as a property of institutional arrangements, organizational practices, and interpersonal situations. Subtopics intersecting violence include cohorts (race, class, & gender), sport, sex, emotion, the State, and the environment. Soc Majors and Minors must register A/F. Pre-req of Soc 1001, Soc 1101, 3101 or 3102 is recommended.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in an asynchronous format. There are no scheduled meeting times. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?walkerml+SOC4113+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- In this course, we will examine violent behavior across a wide variety of social arenas - bedrooms, backyards, and bars, being some common places where violence occurs. You will interrogate definitions and theoretical perspectives of violence. Our principal concern is with violence as a property of institutional arrangements, organizational practices, and interpersonal situations. Intersecting subtopics include: cohorts (race, class, & gender), sport, sex, emotion, the State, and the environment.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Any student interested sociological perspectives on violence.
- Learning Objectives:
1. Critically discuss perspectives on violence
2. Differentiate types of violence
3. Critically discuss social motives associated with violent behaviors and events
- Grading:
- Exam Format:
- One multiple choice exam and several short essays.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63646/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 October 2020
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2021 Sociology Classes