Popular Hollywood films as they illustrate culture, social class, race, gender, identity, and other sociological concepts. The ideological and utopian aspects of film are emphasized.

Every Year - Scheduling unknown.

Recent trends in American culture, focusing on traditions, practices, and products, including books, music, and film. Organizing themes are culture as both a source of social integration and an arena of strife, and the reciprocal effects of culture and human agency.

Course will not be offered on a regular basis.

Overview of teachers and teaching of students and learning. Focuses on the structure and culture of schools; socialization; stratification; gender and schooling; as well as special problems areas as reflected in society. Materials based on all levels of schooling, but emphasis is on higher education.

Offered every year. 

The juvenile justice system, including the measurement of delinquency, contexts of adolescent socialization, and techniques of evaluation research.

Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent Study (USGIS).

Every Year - Scheduling unknown.

The juvenile justice system, including the measurement of delinquency, contexts of adolescent socialization, and techniques of evaluation research.

Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Student engagement in the service-learning component will be up to 25% of overall instruction time.

Scheduling for this course has not yet been determined.

Theoretical and empirical work on youth subcultures in terms of deviance, gender, identity, media, societal reaction, and style. Various subcultures considered: Cybercultures, Deadheads, Gay/Lesbian, Goth, Hackers, Motorcyclists, Punk/Hardcore, Riot Girls, Skinheads, and Straightedgers. 

Course will not be offered on a regular basis.

An exploration of topics such as the social sources of illness, the social distribution of illness and health conditions, the social meanings of illness, and the increasing use of medical frameworks to understand and cope with what used to be considered non-medical, everyday experiences.

Every Year - Scheduling unknown.

The nature of responses to crime by victims, criminal justice agencies, and other institutions; theories explaining reactions to crime.

Every Year - Scheduling unknown.

The relationship between society and the nature and extent of American punishment over time; theories of and justifications for punishment.

Every Year - Scheduling unknown.

Pivotal sociological theorists from classic theorists such as Marx, Weber, and Durkheim to the present.

Every Year - Fall Spring.