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4.00 Credits
Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Description: Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics that satisfy the American Cultures requirement, e.g., immigration, to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Description: Intensive study of individual topic to provide background for honors thesis which is completed during the second semester of the sequence. Group and individual conferences.
Description: Intensive study of individual topic to provide background for honors thesis which is completed during the second semester of the sequence. Group and individual conferences.
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1.00 Credits
In this proseminar students will become familiar with faculty and their various research interests. It consists of presentations by faculty of their ongoing work and allows students to address questions within and about the discipline.
Description: This course will expose students in the department's honors program to the ongoing research of a broad range of practicing sociologists through attendance at the weekly departmental colloquia. Students will prepare for each colloquium by reading written work by the speaker and will follow up with a response paper.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course, students apply to work as research assistants in the sociology department's Laboratory for Social Research. Students will do a variety of research related activities including participation in a weekly laboratory workshop, running participants in study sessions, analyzing data, conducting interviews, and conducting literature reviews.
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1.00 Credits
Group studies of selected topics which vary over time.
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4.00 Credits
Comparing the experience of three out of five ethnic groups (e.g. African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino, European Americans, and Native Americans) we shall examine historically how each people entered American society and built communities and transformed their cultures in the process. Students will be introduced to the sociological perspective, characteristic methods of research, and such key concepts as culture, community, class, race, social change, and social movements.
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4.00 Credits
A review of methodological problems in assessing data relating to social life. Topics to be covered include: posing a sociological problem, gaining access to data, measuring, establishing correlation and causal connection among data, and relating data to theoretical context.
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1.00 Credits
Group studies of selected topics which vary over time.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to population issues and the field of demography, with emphasis on historical patterns of population growth and change during the industrial era. Topics covered include the demographic transition, resource issues, economic development, the environment, population control, family planning, birth control, family and gender, aging, intergenerational transfers, and international migration. Also listed as Demography C126.
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5.00 Credits
Beginners' course. Not open to students who have completed two years or more of high school Spanish, or to native speakers.
Description: The course will offer students an introduction to the literature and culture of Spanish-speaking worlds, will help them develop their skills as readers and critical thinkers and make significant progress in their ability to write coherent, intellectually forceful expository prose. We will focus on analytical writing by developing control of argument and style. Essays will be produced through a process of workshop and revision, with in-class writing, homework, and peer commentary. Our guide will be Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Students meet together and also individually with the professor.
Description: The course will offer students an introduction to the literature and culture of Spanish-speaking worlds, will help them develop their skills as readers and critical thinkers and make significant progress in their ability to write coherent, intellectually forceful expository prose. We will focus on analytical writing by developing control of argument and style. Essays will be produced through a process of workshop and revision, with in-class writing, homework, and peer commentary. Our guide will be Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Students meet together and also individually with the professor.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of contemporary Spanish linguistics. The course surveys areas such as the history of Spanish; the goals and methodology of the language sciences; the Spanish sound system; the form and function of words; syntactic structures; geographical, social, and contextual varieties (dialectal varieties, registers, bilingualism, etc); and a burning question in contemporary linguistics: Spanish in the U.S.
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