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3.00 Credits
MacDonald. A wide-ranging introduction to theory and research on responses to crime under the rubric of criminal law. Theories of deterrence, procedural justice, reintegratigve shaming, defiance and other interactions between legal sanctions and legal conduct will be examined in light of the most recent research. Issues of discrimination, disparity, and fairness in the operation of criminal law will be considered with evidence from around the world. Patterns, causes, and consequences of legal sanctioning patterns will be systematically documenteed, and major gaps in knowledge will be identified.
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3.00 Credits
Sherman, Laufer. This course provides an overview of social science research methods employed by criminologists in public agencies, with an emphasis on diagnostic and analytic tools, experimental design and quasi-experimental evaluation methods. In lieu of a Master's thesis, M.S. students pursue a semester-long project, using crime analysis and research skills (along with tools such as crime mapping) to address a specific crime problem. Student projects culminate with an oral presentation before the class, as well as submission of a written product.
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3.00 Credits
Robinson. This weekly seminar explores how criminal justice professionals can bring research-based approaches into crime-related policy and practice. Current and former government policymakers and criminal justice system practitioners regularly visit the class as guest lecturers and to engage in discussions with students. This is a "capstone" course spread across both semesters and taught by the M.S. Program Director.
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3.00 Credits
Sherman, Laufer. This second year doctoral course is a weekly discussion group designed to help students integrate their coursework from different disciplines around the unifying perspectives of criminology. It focuses on preparation for the doctoral comprehensive examination, detailed critiques of published and unpublished research reports, and colloquia by leading guest lectures presenting new research results. Students preparing for dissertation research on the causes and prevention of crime will report on their developing research ideas.
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3.00 Credits
Elo. This course is intended to hone the skills and judgment in order to conduct independent research in sociology and demography. We will discuss the selection of intellectually strategic research questions and practical research designs. Students will get experience with proposal writing, the process of editing successive drafts of manuscripts, and the oral presentation of work in progress as well as finished research projects. The course is designed to be the context in which master's papers and second year research papers are written. This is a required course for second year graduate students in Sociology and Demography.
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3.00 Credits
Elo, Hannum, Harknett. A second semester of an intensive course in preparing a major independent research paper. This is a required course for second year demography students.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 609 or permission of the instructor. This course considers a variety of procedures for measuring and modeling demographic processes. These include increment/decrement tables, generalizations of stable population relations, two-sex models, and indirect estimation procedures.
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3.00 Credits
Soldo. Biodemography: Biodemography is a relatively new and interdisciplinary field that integrates theory and methods from the fields of demography, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology and populationbiology in order to understand demographic behaviors and outcomes. This course contains an introduction to the theory, methods, and literature of biodemographic research. It examines the biological and ecological mechanisms contributing to aging, mortality, fertility, and population growth and decline, and the life history implications of these patterns. The course focuses on modern human populations, but includes also examples from pre-historic and historic populations, as well as non-human model systems (e.g. non-human primates, fruit flies, nematode worms, etc.).
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3.00 Credits
Madden, Kohler. The course investigates economic and social determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration, and it discusses the effects of population variables on economic and social conditions, including economic and social development. Topics discussed in the course include: How do economic changes affect marriage, divorce, and child bearing decisions How do households make decisions about transfers and bequests How can economic and sociological approaches be combined in explanatory models of demography change What causes the aging of populations, and how will population aging affect the economies of industrial nations, and in particular, pension programs like Social Security What accounts for the rise in women's participation in the wage labor force over the past century How are family composition and poverty interrelated Does rapid population growth slow economic development in Third World countries In addition to these topics, the course also covers selected methods not included in Dem/Soc 535/536 and 609.
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3.00 Credits
McCarthy. This graduate seminar asks students to engage in the varied literature on citizenship in media and cultural studies. Readings include some foundational texts in political theory as well as works by such scholars as Michael Foucault, Toby Miller, Aiwa Ong, Nikolas Roase, Meghan Morris, Chantel Mouffe, Laurie Ouellette, Micki McGee and Lisa Duggan. Our orientation within this material is evaluative with respect to (at least two) questions: How can we understand media and culture as arenas for the reporduction of forms of civic discourse and paradigms of the citizen/person. How do researchers, critics, activists and engaged intellectuals move from the macrolevel of theory (e.g. "governmentality"), populated by conceptual monoliths (e.g. the institution, the state, the corporation), to the messy and contradictory microworlds of practice and experience in which subjects and citizens make -- and remake -- themselves We will focus on the ways that civic discourse enmesh across a range of sites, including media texts and realms of production, distribution, and reception. Screenings and assignements emphasize methods and practices in applying theories of media citizenship to visual culture, including short exercises in archival research designed to develop skills in working with primary sources.
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