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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This mini seminar, the second in a sequence on ethnographic methods, will address the central questions facing ethnographic research as it strives to be a part of social science. Among the issues we will consider are the roles of induction and deduction, generalizability, replicability, and linkages between micro and macro sociological units. Issues of ethnographic writing will also be addressed, particulalry techinques for making descriptions of interactions, people, groups, networks, settings, and interactions. This is a half term course and meets during the second half of the semester.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A six-week practice course that emphasizes how to do fieldwork and ethnographic writing. Topics include ethics and exploitation, showing the people and interactions, depicting variation, being reflexive, connecting the larger social structure and the field site, and the importance of shoe leather. Meetings include a discussion of each student's weekly writing assignment.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Education is becoming increasingly important for upward social mobility in the U.S. and abroad and has been linked to societal inequalities in health, income, and other life-chance measures. This seminar engages both quantitative and qualitative studies and focuses on 1) the historical trends and understanding of racial/ethnic differences in achievement, and 2) the current issues/debates within the sociology of education literature. In addition to considering the relative underachievement of blacks and latino/as, this course also examines the academic success of Asian Americans and Asians living within the U.S.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An overview of important theories and theorists of race and ethnicity, that exposes students to fundamental concepts and equips them for subsequent independent study. The primary focus of the Race/Ethnicity Field is: 1) to understand the nature and persistence of race and ethnic identity as meaningful social groupings in contemporary society, and 2) to explain the social significance of these group identities - that is, how these groupings are related to social stratification, to socio-cultural relations, and to the political and economic dynamics in a society.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines a range of issues regarding race and ethnicity in Latin America. These issues include the history of slavery, the eugenics movement and early theorizing on race and more contemporary issues in inequality, racial formation, classification, human rights and social movements. We will cover issues about social relations along the black to white continuum, racial formation of blacks, mulattos, mestizos and whites as well as black and indigenous social movements.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An overview of qualitative methods (other than ethnography) used in sociology, including the design of grounded theory research, techniques of semi-structured interviewing, analysis of qualitative interviews, discourse analysis, content analysis, and writing reports based on qualitative data.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to Bayesian data analysis. Highly applied with focus on (1) developing appropriate model for a given set of data, (2) writing programming code required to estimate the model using a variety of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, (3) evaluating the performance of the MCMC algorithm, and (4) making statistical inference based on the results. First part of course focuses on developing the probability theory on which Bayesian statistics is built and developing a working knowledge of R programming.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Half-semester seminar on introduction into web-based social research. Topics include experiments, click-stream data, and crowdsourcing. Techniques and approaches will be illustrated with examples from the literature. No previous knowledge of computer programming is required, and graduate students from other disciplines are welcome.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The development of Spanish communication skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, writing and Hispanic culture appreciation. Language instruction complemented with audiovisual materials.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Designed for students who have successfully completed SPA 102 or SPA 103. An integrated approach to increase comprehension, oral and writing expression. Class activities reinforce language skills through aural/oral practice, grammar review, vocabulary acquisition, reading, editing compositions, oral presentations, and discussion of contemporary Spanish short stories, music and films.
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