SOC 4521 is also offered in Spring 2022
SOC 4521 is also offered in Summer 2021
Spring 2022 | SOC 4521 Section 001: Love, Sex, & Marriage (67742)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (36 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will provide an overview of sociological approaches to intimate human relationships. What can sociology and related disciplines tell us about these seemingly intensely personal subjects? More than you might think! Specific topics we will cover include love and romance, dating and mate selection, sexuality, cohabitation, marriage, and divorce. The focus is on contemporary American society, but current U.S. practices are placed in historical and cross-cultural context. prereq: [1001 or instr consent], soc majors/minors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lyimo002+SOC4521+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- This class provides an overview of sociological approaches to intimate human relationships. It aims at understanding what sociology and other related disciplines tell us about these seemingly intensely personal subjects. More than you might think! Specific topics we will cover include love and romance, dating and mate selection, sexuality, cohabitation, marriage, and divorce. The focus is on contemporary American society, but current U.S. practices are placed in historical and cross-cultural context.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Any one interested in intimate human relationships can take this course
- Learning Objectives:
- This course aims to familiarize you with social scientific approaches to the study of intimate human relationships and increasing your interest in the topic, challenge some of your taken-for-granted notions about what is "natural" or "normal" with regard to love, sexuality, and marriage, stimulate you to think about the impact of broad social forces (particularly the rise of modernity) on beliefs and practices related to intimate relationships, highlight the silences of various social identities-including race/ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation, and especially gender-to beliefs and practices around intimacy, and introduce you to some of the significant current policy debates regarding intimate relationships , and fostering your ability to critically assess the arguments on all of these debates
- Grading:
- Final grades will be determined on the following basis;
Mid-term exam 25%
Final exam/paper 25%
Short Quizzes 25% (5 points each)
Discussion question essays and attendance 25%
Additionally, course grades will be on the A-F system. The grading standards are those prescribed by CLA policy as indicated on the syllabus.
- Exam Format:
- The exams will consist of both short answers, possible multiple choice questions and possible long essay questions
- Class Format:
- This class is completely synchronous (face-to-face). It will combine the lectures and discussion course supplemented by selected videos.
- Workload:
- The expectations for students in this course are that you attend class regularly, complete all the readings by the assigned dates and participate in class discussions. You will be required to complete the readings on time (i.e. before the class session for which they are assigned).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67742/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2021
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2022 Sociology Classes