R L Rayford CC: Where Learning Meets Oppurtunites!

A survey of the discipline of sociology. Topics will include sociological theory, methods, and selected substantive areas. 

A theoretical and empirical analysis of selected major social problems confronting American society. 

An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from pre-colonial Africa, through enslavement in North America 

An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from Reconstruction in to the present. 

This course is designed as an introduction to the discipline of anthropology through a survey of the five subfields: cultural, biological, archaeological, linguistics, and applied anthropology. The course will use a holistic and comparative approach to study the human condition with emphasis on human cultural, behavioral, and biological variation across place and time. 

This course provides a broad theoretical and empirical overview of the American crime problem. Exploring crime from a social science perspective, the course develops a survey understanding of how the patterned influence of social institutions (family, government, schools), subcultures, and the psychology of everyday life come together to shape how society defines, organizes, and responds to crime. 

This course analyzes the overall performance of economic systems including output and employment levels, inflation, economic growth, international finance, and the effects of monetary and fiscal policies. 

This course explores global patterns of population dynamics, economic systems, cultural groups, geopolitics, urbanization, and resource distribution, and provides a conceptual framework for understanding the complexities and unevenness of these patterns.
 

A survey of world history to early modern times. 

A survey of world history from early modern times to the present. 

A thematic survey of U.S. history to the present. 

This is a non-calculus based introduction to statistics. Course content includes descriptive statistics, probability theory, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and other selected statistical topics.
 

 We will explore some fascinating questions about human existence and discuss various answers offered by philosophers, such as: Does God exist? How should I live my life? What is justice? What is human nature? Do we have free will? What is the meaning of life?
 

 A survey of the fundamental questions in the study of political science including the fields of Political Theory, Comparative. Politics, and International Politics. 201901 

 A broad survey of the major topics in psychology including, but not limited to, research methodology, biological and social factors influencing abnormal behavior, development, learning, memory, and personality. 

A theoretical and empirical analysis of selected major social problems confronting American society. 

 A survey of the profession of social work from an historical and contemporary perspective which examines how social workers seek to improve the well being of people and communities as they are affected by a wide range of social issues. The profession’s commitment to social justice in rapidly changing multicultural world will also be explored.  

 Gender and sexuality provide the organizing framework for analyzing the intersections among oppressions, including (but not limited to) sexism, racism, imperialism, homophobia, ableism, and classism. .