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4.00 Credits
Explore the religious landscape of Boston while honing your qualitative research skills. Examines themes in urban religion like immigration/transnationalism, organizational ecologies, and religious meaning-making. Students conduct in-depth field research projects on religious communities of their choice.
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4.00 Credits
Examines how different kinds of organizations and institutions work internationally and develop relationships with international partners and counterparts.
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4.00 Credits
Reviews the major traditions in urban sociology and the sociology of culture, focusing on the connections between cultural creativity and urban change.
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4.00 Credits
This course will review a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives on social class in the United States with a focus on class-based identities and class consciousness.
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4.00 Credits
This course meets inside Norfolk prison and surveys some of the key topics in urban sociology, focusing on major social problems in American cities. Questions considered include: How do we respond to underperforming schools, gang violence, drop-outs, joblessness, drug addiction, poverty and incarceration? How do various political, economic and religious ideologies shape our understandings of race? What kinds of practices lead us out of poverty? Is there a difference between criminal justice and community justice?
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine sports through a sociological lens. We will examine processes of stratification in sports including class, race and gender, as well as sports as a business, the media and sports, and sports and health. Students will do an in depth independent or team based research project on the topic.
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8.00 Credits
Supervision of theses or other honors projects.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to Old Spanish literature from its origins through the 15th century. Close reading of representative works in historical context: Cantar de Mio Cid, Milagros de Nuestra Senora, Libro de buen amor, Conde Lucanor, Laberinto de Fortuna, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, Carcel de amor, Romancero selections and La Celestina. Selective attention to critical approaches and overarching themes in the comparative study of medieval Iberian literatures.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an introduction to reading classical Nahuatl language through James Lockhart's Nahuatl as Written. Readings include paradigmatic examples of the Mesoamerican worldview drawn from poetry, history, and myth. Examines the interrelation between alphabetical writing, pictography, and orality.
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4.00 Credits
From Lenin's What is to be done? to the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas. Readings will lead students to raise questions regarding the nature of modernity, progress, enlightenment, revolution, and aesthetic and political vanguards in the 20th century with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Cultural artifacts include film, poetry, political tracts, philosophical inquiries, photography, music, and visual arts.
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