Feb 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

SOC 251 - Social Problems


3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide the student with a survey of selected contemporary social problems. Social problems addressed in the class may include poverty, addiction and substance abuse, mental health, violence with a focus on family violence, crime, teen sexuality and pregnancy, and health care issues. The causes, severity, and consequences of the selected social problems are explored. In addition, strategies for alleviating social problems are presented.

Prerequisite(s):
SOC 201  Minimum Grade: C- OR T

AND

LS 225  Minimum Grade: C- OR T