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  • SOCI 3359: Social Research Design

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    An introduction to the basic research techniques used in the social sciences with an emphasis on research design, data collection, and analysis. This course will include an overview of common methods within the social sciences, including ethnography, qualitative interviews, focus groups, historical comparative methods, experiments, and survey methods. Attention will be given to the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data using computer software. (Also listed as ANTH 3359.)
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  • SOCI 3360: Research Methods:Applied Social Statistics

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    This course provides a hands-on approach for learning how to undertake quantitative social research focused on the design and completion of a semester-long research project. A variety of statistical tools are addressed, including descriptive statistics, tests of significance, and linear regression and correlation. The course goals emphasize writing and rewriting, learning how to formulate and test research hypotheses, and understanding how to present results in an accurate and effective manner. (Also listed as ANTH 3360 and URBS 3360.) Prerequisite: SOCI 3359 or ANTH 3359 or consent of instructor.
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  • SOCI 3365: Research Methods:GIS

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    This course provides a hands-on approach for learning how to undertake spatial social research focused on the design and completion of a semester-long research project. Spatial tools introduced emphasize geographic information systems. The course goals include map making and the integration of information technology and cartography. (Also listed as ANTH 3365 and URBS 3365.) Prerequisite: SOCI 3359 or ANTH 3359 or consent of instructor.
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  • SOCI 4196: Sociology Mini Conference

    1.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    Sociology majors will complete a 1-credit course that teaches professional skills for making a conference paper or poster presentation. Students will be required to: 1) attend two, hour and a half-long sessions given by the department on putting together professional poster-session and conference paper presentations; and 2) rework a research paper from a previous upper-division Sociology course and present it as either a poster or conference paper presentation at the Sociology and Anthropology Mini-Conference in the Spring semester of the Senior year. Outside experts in sociology will be brought in to judge the best sociology presentation. This course satisfies the Senior Experience requirement of the University's Common Curriculum. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
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  • SOCI 4352: Mind,Body & Society:Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    This course examines the nature of mind, body and society, and the intimate dialectical relationship among them. Individual minds make human society possible, while the emergence of the individual mind or consciousness occurs through social processes. Human minds and social being exist in the framework of a material body, which profoundly influences social behavior and individual experience. (Also listed as ANTH 4352.) Prerequisites: Junior standing, and at least 2 of the following courses: SOCI 2311, 2323, 3327, 3332, 4361, ANTH 3327, 3364, 3367, 4361, WAGS 2310.
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  • SOCI 4361: Social Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    A critical survey of the foremost paradigms in contemporary sociological and anthropological theory. The course emphasizes the historical intellectual location of major theoretical traditions, especially the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber. Contemporary schools of thought include functionalism, cultural ecology, conflict and rational choice theories, symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical analysis, phenomenology and ethnomethodology, structuralism, feminist theories, world systems analysis and structuration theory. For each, special attention is given to how to evaluate theories and how theoretical paradigms are linked to empirical research. (Also listed as ANTH 4361.) Prerequisites: Five Anthropology (Sociology) courses and consent of instructor.
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  • SOCI 4362: Globalization and International Development

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    Advanced seminar studying the relationship between economic development and social change at the international level. Examines the rise of capitalism as a global mode of production and its impact on local cultures in the contemporary period. Special attention paid to the rise of transnational communities and grassroots movements for social justice. (Also listed as ANTH 4362.) Prerequisites: Junior standing and completion of at least one lower-division sociology course or SOCI 1301 or 2357.
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  • SOCI 4394: Seminar

    9.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    Topics will vary as necessitated by student interest. A student may repeat the course if the topics are different, for a maximum of nine hours.
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  • SOCI 4395: Senior Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    Students will produce a written thesis on a topic of their choice during the course of one semester. The Sociology faculty will consider and review theses nominated by the advising instructor. Students must have their thesis proposal approved by the Sociology faculty in the semester prior to registering for the course. This course satisfies the Senior Experience requirement of the University's Common Curriculum. Prerequisites: Permission of advising instructor and Senior standing.
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  • SPAN 1403: Review of Elementary Spanish

    3.00 Credits
    Trinity University

    A course designed for students who have had two to three years of high school Spanish but are not qualified for SPAN 2301. A review of the material covered normally in SPAN 1600. SPAN 1600 and 1403 cannot both be taken for credit. Prerequisite: Two to three years of high school Spanish, or the equivalent.
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