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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the history, culture, and politics in Latin America. Takes a thematic focus to highlight racial relations, environmental issues, and social movements. Analyzes the role and impact that colonial powers and the United States have played in the region. Includes a variety of materials to provide an interdisciplinary perspective of the region. Sandoval Gir?n.
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4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: AST 101, PHIL 226, SOCI 249, or consent of the instructor. Chronicles critical race theory as an intellectual field created in dialogue with dominant race and legal constructions since the civil rights movement in the U.S. Gives particular attention to key contemporary legal and political debates about affirmative action, assaultive speech, land rights, the punishment industry, violence against women, and multicultural education. Thompson.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: SOCI 101 and/or SOCI 225, SOCI 348, SOCI 222, SOCI 277, SPAN 312; or consent. Provides knowledge of scholarship on cross-cultural alliances and border crossing, focusing on the United States and Mexico, combined with lived experiences of such crossings. Emphasizes how power inequalities are negotiated in cross-cultural work. Course takes place in Cuernavaca, Mexico and includes on-site and off-campus lectures; daily Spanish classes; and off-site excursions. No previous knowledge of Spanish is required. Thompson.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: SOCI 239. Immerses students in qualitative research techniques in a workshop format, focusing on the conduct of qualitative interviews and on the analysis of existing documents and interview data. Addresses ethical and political issues in research, emphasizing acquisition of theoretical and handson experience needed to conduct independent qualitative research. Leiter.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: One of the four 100-level WGST courses, or AST 101, or SOCI 101; junior standing; or consent of the instructor. Examines the scope and variety of violence in the family from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes: (a) a theoretical framework of economics, law, public policy, psychology, and sociology; (b) a cross-cultural understanding of family violence against girls and women; and (c) an exploration of the sociopolitical, legal, and cultural response to family violence. Discussion of the theories used to describe and research family violence that include: violence against women, children, intimate partners, and elderly family members. Thomas
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: SOCI 101. Focuses on what C.W. Mills refers to as the "sociological imagination" in the poetry and memoirs/autobiographies of several contemporary political poets from a range of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds. Examines how social location shapes writers' approaches to social problems. Considers solutions writers offer and analyzes their role in society as conscience, scribe, witness, and storyteller. Thompson.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: SOCI 101 or SOCI 241 or consent of the instructor. Analyzes the evolution of the U.S. health system and compares it with health systems of other selected countries. Examines health systems as social institutions, developing a broad, contextual understanding of health system development and change across a range of cultural, political and economic environments. Investigates the impact of social institutions on the structure of health systems, on policy choices, and on the provision and receipt of care. Leiter.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hours Offers a multicultural social history of antiracism in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present with particular focus on the civil rights and black power movements, multiracial feminism, Central America solidarity work, multicultural education, and prison activism. Thompson.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: SOCI 101 or consent of the instructor. International relations majors are exempt from the prerequisite. Explores the meaning and politics of the concept of the Third World from a post-colonial, feminist perspective. Critically considers histories of colonialism, anticolonial movements, nationalism, decolonization, science, and geography. Encourages rethinking the concept of the Third World to enable transnational networks of alliances. Puri.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the instructor. Directed study addresses coursework required for the major or degree not being offered formally that semester. Students work under the close supervision of a faculty member. Consent is required for a directed study, which does not count toward the independent learning requirement.
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