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| Course: | ISS 210 Society and the Individual (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Evolution of human behavior with an emphasis on the individual and society. Family and kinship, social organizations. Societal types, personality, and the life cycle. | | Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | ISS 215 Social Differentiation and Inequality (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Types, causes and consequences of stratification in human societies. Age, class, gender, race and other factors which define social position. Education, occupation, political economy. | | Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | ISS 220 Time, Space and Change in Human Society (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Evolutionary, ecological, and spatial theories of adaptation and change. Cultural evolution from prehistoric foraging to the post-industrial age. Continuity and change in the emergence and development of contemporary ways of life. | | Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | ISS 225 Power, Authority, and Exchange (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Power, authority, and exchange in organizing societies. Costs and limitations of power. Institutionalization of authority. Systems of exchange: planned vs. market economies. | | Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | ISS 230 Government and the Individual (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Critical examination of the role of government in regulating individual behavior. Implications for cultural values and beliefs and modes of behavior. Analysis of consequences of different theories for resolving, or creating problems in public policy. | | Effective Dates: | SUMMER 2008 - Open |
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| Course: | ISS 235 Liberal Democracy as a Way of Life (D) | | Semester: | Fall of every year | | Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4
| | Description: | Cultural tendencies of liberal democracy that form the characters and constitute the ways of life of individuals in liberal democracies. | | Effective Dates: | FALL 2008 - Open |
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