- A study of the operations and processes of the justice system and its agencies (the police, courts, corrections), how the justice system influences human behavior, and how it is influenced by social, economic, and environmental factors, including the American political system.
- UNCP Catalog Description: Social costs of organized social life. Problems in families, work groups, local communities, and modern nations. Sociology of mental disorders, suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. Poverty and violence.Credit, 3 semester hours.
- UNCP Catalog description: An introduction to scientific study of human society and social behavior. Credit, 3 semester hours.

