Calendar 2005-2006 - The University of Akron

206 The University of Akron 2005-2006
Requirements:
Eighteen (18) credits are required to complete this program. These include the
three core courses: Credits
3350:422 Transportation Systems Planning 3
4300:361 Transportation Engineering 3
4300:463 Transportation Planning 3
The remaining 9 credits shall come from the list of electives:
3350:420 Urban Geography 3
3350:437 Planning Analysis and Projection Methods 3
3350:438 Land Use Planning Methods 3
4300:466 Traffic Engineering 3
3350:432 Land Use Planning Law 3
3350:433 Practical Approaches to Planning 3
VICTIM STUDIES
The Department of Sociology and the School of Social Work offer a joint certificate
program in Victim Studies. The program prepares students in sociology,
social work, and other disciplines who would like to develop a specialization in victimology/victim
studies in their degree program and future work.
Core Required Courses (12 credit hours)
3850: 428/528 The Victim in Society 3
3850: 455/555 Family Violence 3
7750: 480/580 Special Topics: Crisis Intervention 3
7750: 445/545 Social Policy Analysis for Social Workers 3
Elective Courses (9 credit hours): select one course from each area.
Treatment and Intervention
7750: 480/580 Special Topics: Disaster Intervention 3
7750: 465/565 Administration and Supervision in Social Work 3
7750: 475/575 Substance Abuse and Social Work Practice 3
3850: 431/531 Corrections 3
3850: 350 Drugs in Society 3
Status Groups
7750: 411/511 Women’s Issues in Social Work Practice 3
3850: 343 The Sociology of Aging 3
3850: 344 Sociology of Gender 3
3850: 421/521 Racial and Ethnic Relations 3
3850: 423/523 Sociology of Women 3
7750: 480/580 Special Topics: Foster Care and Adoption 3
7750: 451/551 Social Work in Child Welfare 3
7750: 450/550 Social Needs and Services: Aging 3
Policy and Law
3850: 433/533 Sociology of Deviant Behavior 3
3850: 441/541 Sociology of Law 3
3850: 341 Political Sociology 3
3850: 324 Social Movements 3
7750: 454/554 Social Work in Juvenile Justice 3
7750: 470/570 Law for Social Workers 3
7750: 425/525 Social Work Ethics 3
NOTE: Prerequisite courses for the Social Work courses will be waived for
Sociology majors.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
For information, contact the Women’s Studies Office, (330) 972-7008.
Interdisciplinary and personalized, the Women’s Studies certificate fosters a critical
approach to knowledge about women; at the core of its intellectual agenda is diversity.
By focusing on cultural practices that have largely excluded and devalued differences
in gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, and class, Women’s Studies
prepares students to appreciate and act in a pluralistic world. The Women’s Studies
certificate integrates scholarship and research on women and gender from literature,
psychology, history, sociology, and communication. Students are challenged
to debate assumptions, explore divergent viewpoints, and discover the partial and
often self-interested emphases of our society’s most powerful institutions – family,
church, academia, business, and government.
The Women’s Studies Program helps students to evaluate what they have been
taught and, most importantly, it empowers them to claim their educations – ones
not readily available in the traditional university curricula – and to work for social
justice after their educations. Students find their own voices and develop the
esteem necessary to articulate their own views. Out of such opportunities, a student
culture of respect and tolerance emerges to support lasting communities
that value and promote individual worth, collective action, and intellectual courage.
Students may enroll in any Women’s Studies courses and/or make an appointment
with the director to discuss a plan of study. Students need not be enrolled in the
certificate program to take Women’s Studies courses. This certificate may be
earned independently of a degree.
Admission
To participate in the program, the student must:
• Be formally admitted to The University of Akron as 1) an undergraduate seeking
a baccalaureate degree; 2) a postbaccalaureate student; or 3) by special
admission for a free-standing certificate.
• Make written application to the program countersigned by the student’s major
academic advisor.
• Receive written notification of admission from the Director of the Women’s
Studies Program.
• Consult with the Director of the Women’s Studies Program to formulate a program
of study.
Program
Requirements Credits
Total Credits Required: 19
Core:
1840:300 Introduction to Women’s Studies 3
1840:490 Women’s Studies Lecture Series* 1
1840:480 Feminist Theory* 3
or
1840:493 Individual Studies in Women*
Electives: 12 credits (two courses 300-400 level).
• One course from each of the following three areas: humanities, social sciences,
fine and applied arts, plus an additional women’s studies or cross-listed
course from any area.
Humanities
1840:493 Individual Studies on Women* 1-3
3300:282 Drama Appreciation: Women in Modern Drama 3
3300:386 Women in Modern Novels 3
3300:389 Popular Culture: Writing about Race and Gender 3
3300:489 20th Century Women Writers* 3
3600:355 Philosophy of Feminism 3
Social Sciences
3400:325 Women in Modern Europe 3
3400:340 African-American Women’s History 3
3400:350 U.S. Women’s History 3
3400:383 Soviet and U.S. Women in the 20th Century 3
3400:400 Women in Revolutionary China* 3
3400:493 Special Topics: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory and Historical Change* 3
3700:392 Special Topics: Women in Politics 3
3750:474 Psychology of Women* 4
3850:344 The Sociology of Gender 3
3850:423 Sociology of Women* 3
Fine and Applied Arts
7100:401 Women in Art* 3
7400:201 Courtship, Marriage and the Family 3
7400:442 Human Sexuality 3
7600:408 Women, Minorities and News* 3
7750:411 Women’s Issues in Social Work Practice* 3
7750:480 Special Topics: Gay and Lesbian Issues* 3
Electives in Education, Institute for Life-Span Development, Summit
College, and Women’s Studies Workshops
2450:265 Women in Management 3
1840:485 Special Topics: Boys to Men: Masculinity in Contemporary Society* 3
1840:485 Special Topics: Women, Poverty and Welfare* 3
1840: 485 Special Topics: Women, Minorities and Media* 3
1840:493 Individual Studies in Women* 1-3
1840:489/589 Internship in Women’s Studies* 1-4
* Available at the graduate level.