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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

SO 150 Contemporary Social Problems

(4 Credits)
This course is a study of contemporary social problems from a global perspective. It examines population, environmental depletion and destruction, violence and war, racial and ethnic conflict, migration, gender inequality, and other problems that occur internationally and that are interrelated. It analyzes assumptions underlying popular and theoretical explanations of social problems, as well as programs and policies aimed at alleviating them.