Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 1453 |
SOCL-101-01 |
Principles of Sociology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hall, Rhys |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: 20 seats reserved for first-year students, 5 reserved for HMTCA students. |
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The course will deal with questions such as these: What are the underlying causes of our major social problems? Are inequality and the exercise of power by some over others inevitable in all social life? How important in human life are cultural and social factors compared to the influence of biological inheritance, personality and economic constraints? What are the origins of, prospects for, and results of attempts at deliberate social change? To what extent can we realistically expect to achieve our democratic ideals of freedom and equality in contemporary societies? The course addresses the basic concerns, ideas and methods of sociology both as a scientific and a humanistic discipline. |
| 2199 |
SOCL-101-02 |
Principles of Sociology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Andersson, Tanetta |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: 20 seats reserved for first-year students. |
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The course will deal with questions such as these: What are the underlying causes of our major social problems? Are inequality and the exercise of power by some over others inevitable in all social life? How important in human life are cultural and social factors compared to the influence of biological inheritance, personality and economic constraints? What are the origins of, prospects for, and results of attempts at deliberate social change? To what extent can we realistically expect to achieve our democratic ideals of freedom and equality in contemporary societies? The course addresses the basic concerns, ideas and methods of sociology both as a scientific and a humanistic discipline. |
| 2716 |
SOCL-101-03 |
Principles of Sociology |
1.00 |
LEC |
Vickers, Mary Jane |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: 20 seats reserved for first-year students. |
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The course will deal with questions such as these: What are the underlying causes of our major social problems? Are inequality and the exercise of power by some over others inevitable in all social life? How important in human life are cultural and social factors compared to the influence of biological inheritance, personality and economic constraints? What are the origins of, prospects for, and results of attempts at deliberate social change? To what extent can we realistically expect to achieve our democratic ideals of freedom and equality in contemporary societies? The course addresses the basic concerns, ideas and methods of sociology both as a scientific and a humanistic discipline. |
| 2155 |
SOCL-202-01 |
Clas & Contemp Theory |
1.00 |
LEC |
Spurgas, Alyson |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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Critical examination of the major theoretical perspectives current in sociology (structure functionalism, interactionism, conflict theory, exchange theory, and ethnomethodology) and consideration of their implications for core problems: such as social order and social change that concern all sociologists. Also, emphasis upon the methods of theory construction, the relationship between theory and research, and the significance of the classic (e.g., Durkheim’s Suicide) for sociologists now. |
| 1589 |
SOCL-210-01 |
Statistics for Social Sciences |
1.00 |
LEC |
Vickers, Mary Jane |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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NUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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This course is an introduction to statistical methods, their conceptual underpinnings, and their use in analyzing social science data. Topics include basic presentation and graphing of data, descriptive statistics, probability theory, the normal distribution, one and two sample t-tests and tests of proportions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, chi-square tests, and an introduction to linear regression. The course will emphasize the logic and practice of statistical analysis as it applies to the social sciences. Students will also learn to carry out basic statistical analysis with the aid of computer software. This course is intended for students who want a practical introduction to statistical methods and who plan to major in a social science. |
| 3085 |
SOCL-228-01 |
Masculinities |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hall, Rhys |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
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Students in this course will investigate masculinity through a sociological lens. We will analyze meanings of being a man and lived experiences of masculinity, historically and today, and we will explore how these definitions and experiences are contoured by race, religion, culture, class, sexuality, age, embodiment, and nation, in addition to other variables. With a focus on the performance of heterosexuality—particularly among youth—we will study how gender roles operate in work, labor, and reproduction; motives for men's involvement in both anti-feminist and gender equality movements; experiences described in gender transition/affirmation narratives; militarization, policing, and violence and the bind some men feel trapped in when it comes to the exercise and maintenance of power and domination; and shifting discourses of masculinity, among other topics. |
| 3305 |
SOCL-247-01 |
Soc of Youth & Youth Cultures |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hall, Rhys |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Sociology of Youth and Youth Cultures takes students on an era- and region-based analysis of the activities, movements, and media representations of young people while taking into consideration differences among youth according to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other sociological variables. Associations with youth culture and deviant or aimlessly rebellious behavior will be contrasted with examples of how young people have positively changed politics, values, cultures, and aesthetics for their ow age cohorts and for broader societies and generations to come. We will draw from film, television, journalism and news media, sports, games, music, fashion, and other forms of shared creative expression to analyze and make predictions for how the digital social media era will shape the future of youth cultures, education, systems of morality, and social movements. This course requires some sociological knowledge of general social issues so that students can apply an alternative approach and consider how those historically lacking social power have tackled systems and structures to create change from the ground up. |
| 2658 |
SOCL-253-01 |
Mental Health Politics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Andersson, Tanetta |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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Why is our mental health system so fragmented? Are prisons the new carceral asylums? What might a people's psychology look like? Sociologists counter the medical model by examining mental health institutions through structural relations and also understand the concept of mental illness as culture-bound. From state-run asylums, community-based care, and the post-deinstitutionalization era, this course traces shifts in our mental health policies. In particular, this course addresses how power interacts with institutions, mental health policy, the logics of the criminal legal system, and medical debates and expertise which medicalize and control people, especially those marginalized by anti-blackness and ableism. |
| 2650 |
SOCL-312-01 |
Social Class & Mobility |
1.00 |
LEC |
Couloute, Lucius |
MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with EDUC |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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This course is an introduction to the theory and research on stratification and mobility in modern societies. Every society distributes resources unequally. This distribution affects not only economic outcomes such as wages, profits, and material well being, but also social and political outcomes such as protest, voting behavior, and self-esteem. This course will explore why this occurs, the types of inequalities that exist, and the consequences of inequality for the distribution of power and for democratic processes in American society. Specific topics include class, occupational, race and gender inequalities, and the social, psychological, and cultural consequences of inequality. |
| 2164 |
SOCL-316-01 |
Global Gender Inequalities |
1.00 |
LEC |
Andersson, Tanetta |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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This course broadly addresses women’s low status and power worldwide. Topics include issues such as son preference, gendered violence, maternal health and reproductive rights, sexual rights, work and household labor, globalization, politics, human rights, and women’s global activism. Utilizing a transnational sociological feminist perspective, students learn how gender inequality intersects with not only culture but also nationalism, racism, and economic injustice in various countries and regions of the world (Southeast Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America). At several key points, students engage in critical comparison between examples of gender oppression and exploitation observed in both the United States and other societies (i.e., gendered violence), which reveal a false binary in the discourse of progress often drawn between “us” and “them.” |
| 3306 |
SOCL-323-01 |
Critical Criminology |
1.00 |
SEM |
Couloute, Lucius |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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This course offers an advanced survey of criminology through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. We begin by examining how crime is defined and measured, highlighting the political and methodological stakes involved in producing official crime statistics. We then interrogate conventional explanations of criminal behavior including rational choice, deterrence, and control theories, while assessing their empirical limits and ideological functions. The course will then foreground critical, materialist, and other marginalized approaches that situate crime and punishment within broader social relations, state power, and political economy. Drawing on scholarship attentive to race, class, gender, and place, students will engage theorists who illuminate how criminalization is tied to inequality, exploitation, surveillance, and the management of marginalized populations. By the end of the semester, students will be equipped to critically evaluate dominant criminological ideas and to theorize crime and harm in relation to social structures rather than individual pathologies. |
| 1436 |
SOCL-399-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment. |
| 1437 |
SOCL-466-01 |
Teaching Assistant |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Credit does not count toward the major. Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |
| 1452 |
SOCL-490-01 |
Research Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor. |
| 2428 |
SOCL-498-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 1 |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Written report on original research project. Students should consult with the faculty supervisor before registration, i.e., during the previous spring term. Required of all candidates for honors; elective for others. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits to be completed in two semesters.) |