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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE U.S. Examination of the diverse struggles (political, economic, social, legal, etc.) of Asian, Native American, African American and Latina/Chicana women in the U.S. and the ways in which public institutions and agencies (federal, state, local) deal with women of color.
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Theories of deviant behavior, illustrations from studies of delinquency, mental illness, alcohol and other drug use, etc. Implications of control policies such as hospitalization, imprisonment, therapy.
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3.00 Credits
Exposes students to a variety of reproductive issues ? conception (and contraception), birth and motherhood. Focuses on the U.S. and on other countries in order to examine assumptions about reproductive practices and strategies. Explores issues such as birth control, pro-natalism, the construction of fetal personhood and the meaning and experience of families and motherhood.
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Various theoretical perspectives for analyzing the nature of contemporary social conflicts and problems in the U.S. Issues raised may include social inequalities of various kinds, poverty, unemployment and the working poor, gender and race discrimination, and crime and social justice.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of gender and society from a sociological perspective. With an emphasis on placing U.S experience in comparative perspective, explores relationship of culture, the body, money and food to gender and various forms of gender inequality. Examines sociological research explaining why gender inequality persists at home, on the job and in poverty.
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3.00 Credits
American working classes in industrial era: ethnic, racial, occupational characteristics, changing quality of life, evolution of organized labor movement, labor's various forms of political action. Working-class culture: religion, family structure, recreation.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on recent trends in immigration to the U.S. Draws on both sociological theories of (im)migration and international development to explore such issues as the origins of immigration, trends in capital and labor movements within the present world-system, changing modes of incorporation in the receiving society, immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic enclaves and the informal economy, as well as some of the challenges posed to both first- and second-generation immigrants in their efforts to adapt to new surroundings. Particular attention given to differences in experience emerging from gender, race and class positions of immigrants.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of particular topics to be determined in advance. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the sociology of the everyday; considers the socially constructed nature of reality, self and identity; and looks at how the acquisition of a self through society is problematic given unequal distributions of power. Addresses the meaning of social categories in our lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores current topics in the study of society in Latin America including recent changes in the region?s social structure, the character of the region?s political and economic relationship to the United States.
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