Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
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SMF | 220 | 001 | Research Methods |
This course introduces students to the philosophy and methods of social science and humanities research, including an examination of issues and approaches to conducting research in the areas of sexuality, couples, and families.
Offered remotely |
Angela Underhill |
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Fall 2021 |
SMF | 301 | 001 | Communication and Counselling Skills |
This course is an examination and analysis of the theories and methods of communication as applied within the processes of individual, relational, and family consultation and counselling.
Offered remotely |
Toni Serafini |
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Fall 2021 |
SMF | 310 | 001 | Sexual and Relational Ethics |
A study of social relationships and systems that support sexual identities and relationship structures which generate ethical issues related to attitudes, values, and behaviours at both the individual and group level. This course may address sexual and relationship ethics on local, national, and transnational scales focusing on how issues of ethics and morality have been socially constructed.
Offered remotely |
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Fall 2021 | |
SMF | 350 | 001 | Love and the Law |
Relationship breakdown is a social phenomenon that has legal consequences. This course provides students with a socio-legal foundation in current family law. Topics may include the court system, the litigation process, property division, spousal and child support, child co-parenting, child protection, high conflict families, and alternative dispute resolution processes.
Offered remotely |
Denise Whitehead |
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Fall 2021 |
SMF | 496 | 001 | Seminar in Family Studies - Intersecting Identities in Relationships |
This seminar allows students to integrate their knowledge in the domains of couples, marriages, and family studies. Topics reflect current issues from a theoretical and research perspective.
Offered remotely |
Toni Serafini | Fall 2021 | |
SOC | 101 | 001 | Introduction to Sociology |
An introduction to the basic concepts and frames of reference of sociological investigation and interpretation. Topics for analysis will include communities, associations and institutions, classes and status groups, crowds and publics, social processes, and social change. Special attention is given to Canadian society.
Offered remotely |
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Fall 2021 | |
SOC | 229 | 081 | Selected Topics in Criminology |
Sociological analysis of research and theory on selected criminal activities. Motivation, modus operandi, and the social characteristics of offenders will be examined in relation to such specific crimes as drug and sexual offenses, theft, robbery, murder, organized crime, and/or other criminal activities. Held with LS 229
Offered online |
Frederick Desroches |
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Fall 2021 |
SOC | 327 | 081 | Policing in a Democratic Society |
A critical examination of the police as social control agents in contemporary democratic societies. Topics include the historical evolution of policing; police recruitment, training, and education; police/community relations; the occupational subculture of the police; police authority and discretion; private policing; and police deviance and criminality. Held with LS 327
Offered online |
Frederick Desroches |
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Fall 2021 |
SOC | 369J | 001 | The Sociology of Community |
This course examines how our contemporary concern with community is connected with the rise of modern society and the development of the urban-rural debate. Our anxieties about community will be shown to be connected to our anxieties about family. Special attention will be given to the interpretive approach to these issues.
Offered remotely |
Kieran Bonner |
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Fall 2021 |
SOC | 436 | 001 | Alcohol and Well-Being |
This seminar examines the relation between well-being, culture, alcohol consumption, and regulation from an interpretive focus. Topics addressed may include health, Alcoholics Anonymous, addiction vs. dependence, prohibition, and social discourses around alcohol consumption.
Offered remotely |
Kieran Bonner |
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Fall 2021 |