Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year

This course will provide an opportunity for students to explore methodological issues in the study of religion and will emphasize the interrelated strategies of description, analysis, and interpretation within an intercultural and comparative framework.

An introduction to the principles and methods of sociology, as well as important research findings.

This course explores significant social problems in contemporary society, such as homelessness, crime, environmental degradation, racial and ethnic discrimination, and sex and gender inequalities. We use the sociological perspective to gain understanding of these problems.

Introduction to quantitative techniques for data analysis in the social sciences. Univariate description, bivariate description, and statistical inference.

How social structures alter the environment and the environment constrains societies. How inequalities of class, race affect experiences of environmental degradation. How social movements reduce environmental harms. Investigates these issues in the Tampa Bay area.

A survey of sociological research on deviance, with an emphasis on an interactionist perspective. Deviance is understood as interaction between those doing something and those who feel offended or threatened by what they are doing. Prerequisite: SO 101S.

Sociology Internship

Concepts, approaches, and orientations that have played a part in shaping the nature of sociology, and ideas during the 19th and 20th centuries as sociology matured. Prerequisite: SO 101S.

The techniques and application of social science research, critical evaluation of research evidence, designing and administering a group survey project.