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SOC 212 - Social Problems

Credits: 3

This course studies the nature, scope, and effects of major social problems and some of the remedial and preventive measures proposed to alleviate them. Included in the course are considerations of such problems as unemployment, physical and mental handicaps of the individual, race, crime, juvenile delinquency, the aged, international relations, and problems relative to religion and education.
Prerequisite: SOC 211 
Offered: Spring, even-numbered years


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