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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies 255 Rights, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship Human Rights, SRE See Africana Studies 255 for description.
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4.00 Credits
An overview of the contemporary mass media systems. The design of the course emphasizes a cultural approach toward the role of media venues, content, and audiences. The course looks at the effects of different media in our society and addresses contemporary debates concerning access, ownership concentration, civic engagement, and power.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Political Studies Other than war, punishment is the most dramatic manifestation of state power. Whom a society punishes and how it punishes are key political questions as well as indicators of its character. This course considers connections between punishment and politics in the contemporary United States. Among the questions discussed are: Does punishment express our noblest aspirations for justice or our basest desires for vengeance? Can it ever be an adequate expression of, or response to, the pain of the victims of crime? When is it appropriate to forgive rather than punish? These questions are considered in the context of arguments about the right way to deal with drug offenders, sexual predators, and terrorists. The treatment of punishment in constitutional law, e.g., the prohibition of double jeopardy and of cruel and unusual punishment, is also examined.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights A critical investigation into the development of modern sociological theories in the United States and Europe, this course examines, among other schools and traditions, functionalism, conflict theory, exchange and rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism, feminist theory, and critical theory. Readings include works by Ralf Dahrendorf, Jon Elster, Michel Foucault, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, Jürgen Habermas, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, and Dorothy Smith. Prerequisite: Sociology 203 or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, SRE This course surveys a range of special topics current in the sociological literature on race and ethnicity. It is organized on the basis of close readings and critical analyses of works published in the past several years, chosen for their significance and potential impact on the future direction of the subfield. Topics include multiracialism, assimilation and contemporary immigration, black feminism/sexuality, color-blind racism, and the concept of race in science. Prerequisite: Upper College status or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Cultural studies is an exciting new interdisciplinary area of study that offers great potential for confronting such important contemporary sociological issues as multiculturalism, nationalism, leisure, media/ideology, and sexuality. It meets the sociological perspective in its focus on the link between cultural representations, symbols and practices and the establishment, and critique and maintenance of relations of power and inequality. By confronting a wide range of topics-from postcolonialism to youth subcultures, from queer theory to rock 'n' roll, from thenew racism to the politics of mugging-this course introduces students to the distinctive theory and method of cultural studies.
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4.00 Credits
Throughout American history, people of different ethnic or racial backgrounds have formed sexual unions (some of which society defined as legal marriages, others not), and from these unions have emerged generations of multiethnic, or multiracial, children. This course focuses first on the role of these unions in determining American ethnoracial assimilation, and then explores group-level responses to the challenges posed by the presence of many mixed-origin people. Finally, the course asks how ethnic and racial groups survive at all following extensive blending. Can group culture or identity persist when many couples include one member who is not a group member, or when most "group members"have origins both in and outside the group? The obvious answer would seem to be no; but that answer appears to be only partly correct, because individuals make choices about what to preserve.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies This course is based upon a close reading of two books by Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown and Middletown in Transition. The authors lived and did research in the "typical" American communityof Middletown for several months during the 1920s and again during theGreat Depression; their two volumes appraise all aspects of social life in the community, including class structure and class relations, local politics, courtship, childraising, schooling, and religion. Taken together, the books provide an unparalleled understanding of American society and culture in the 1920s and 1930s and are an indispensable model for community studies. Students write a term paper based upon either the Lynds' work or other classic works in American community studies.
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4.00 Credits
Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, SRE We often read shocking stories about children in poverty, segregated and failing schools, family dissolution, and numerous other problems in contemporary American society. While these accounts provide a sensational and superficial treatment of various social problems, what do researchers really know about the causes of and solutions for these problems? This seminar provides a critical survey and analysis of the research on various topics including poverty and wealth; schools and education; teenage pregnancy and abortion; gender inequality in the workplace; racial segregation and discrimination; ethnicity and immigration; and others.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies This course considers themes of American ethnicity by tracing striking shifts in American Jewish attitudes toward Israel since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. The course then deals with American politics by illuminating the changing role of Israel in American Jewish voting patterns, lobbying efforts, and financial contributions for politics. Also considered are various non-Jewish domestic pressure groups that demand or oppose strong support for Israel-for example, in recent years the religious right has been an important supporting force, while Arab-American organizations have typically opposed such support. Finally, the course examines American foreign policy itself, evaluating the dramatically shifting history of American involvement with the Jewish state, a history in which domestic interest groups comprise only one among several important components.
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