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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history and experiences of African Americans. Looking at historical and contemporary issues, we examine key social institutions such as the media, schools and "The State" which have shaped and continue to shape the lives of Blacks in America.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the experiences of mixed race populations (mulattos, mestizos, mixed blood Native Americans, and Eurasians) in comparative perspective. Using these experiences, as well as sociological theories(assimilation, third culture, marginality, and multiculturalism), we study how race is a social and political construct, with tangible and material repercussions. Offered intermittently.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the social significance of gender in contemporary U.S. society. It analyses the social construction of gender ideology and how women and men's experiences are affected by social institutions such as work, education, the family, and the criminal justice system. Men and women's differential experiences are analyzed within the context of race, class, and sexual orientation. The course demonstrates how the experiences of men and women are created through social institutions and can, therefore, be transformed through social and institutional change. Offered in Fall.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC - 150 and upper-division standing; or permission of instructor. This course explores the structures, cultures, and development of contemporary societies from a sociological, comparative, and global perspective. It examines the institutional arrangements and cultural patterns which underlie class, race and gender-based global inequalities within and between different societies, emphasizing case-studies from developing countries. Offered every Fall.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC - 150 and upper-division standing; or permission of instructor . This course will explore the institutional arrangements and cultural patterns which underlie inequalities based on race, class, gender and sexuality in American society. Offered every Spring.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC - 150 and upper-division standing or permission of instructor. A study of the foundations and development of sociological theory, focusing on arguments and debates that have taken place around questions of agency and structure, order and change, rationality and science, culture and ideology, and the meaning of equality, justice and liberty. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC - 150, MATH - 101 and upper-division standing or permission of instructor. This course stresses the comprehension and assessment of research methods in sociology. Students critically consider the logic and variety of methods that sociologists use to observe the social world by examining the most common qualitative and quantitative techniques. The focus is on assessing how well research strategies address the underlying sociological question(s), how the evidence provides tenable knowledge of social phenomena, and how the evidence can be used in developing new theories or testing the adequacy of existing theories. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides socio-historical and theoretical frameworks for understanding those U.S. populations known a Chicanos/as and Latinos/as. The course is intended for students who would like to rigorously pursue an independent research project that further expands their knowledge of these populations.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores illness due to environmental pollution. An overview of sociological perspectives on health and illness is followed by examination of the role of scientific knowledge and othe social factors in identifying, treating, and preventing environmental illness. Cross Listed With: ENVA - 319
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the way in which human societies adapt to and change their physical environment. It studies environmental issues in their political, economic, technological, social, and cultural contexts, looking at the ways in which sociological theories and concepts can help us understand the impact of social factors on the environment. Offered intermittently. Cross Listed With: ENVA - 320
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