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3.00 Credits
This course offers an insider's look at criminal justice in New York City, including the influences of politics and the media; the role of forensic evidence; racial and economic perspectives on crime and punishment; the roles of prosecutors and defense lawyers. The course will involve visits to courtrooms, guest speakers and consideration of fictional treatments of criminal justice in New York.
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3.00 Credits
What behavior should be considered criminal, who really commits criminal acts and for what reasons, how does society control criminality, and what ways are available to make crimecontrol more just and efficient? The course will examine the political origins of criminal law, the causes of crime, the operation of the police, courts, and prisons, and the effect of race, class and gender on the judicial process.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the legal treatment of women from a political and sociological perspective. Topics include women's struggle for rights and their exclusion from critical public roles like owning property, voting and jury duty, workplace discrimination including sexual harassment, the role of women in the military, family issues, abuse and violence.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of the relationship between personality characteristics and socio-cultural and political processes. The effects of the media, in their capacity as dominant cultural institutions, will be emphasized. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A broad introduction to the aboriginal peoples of North America across their dynamic histories and richly varied tribal groupings, outlining the prehistory and arrival of humans in the New World and the various "culture areas" of North America. Topicsinclude Native American economies, kinship and family systems, leadership and political systems, ideologies, languages, and arts. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the basic categories and controversies in the field of political economy. The structure and contradiction of capitalist development will be emphasized. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the range of questions about what justice requires and permits, to which alternative and incompatible answers are often offered by contending philosophical, theological, and sociological theories of justice. Among the questions addressed are: Does justice permit gross inequality of income and ownership? Does justice require compensatory action to remedy inequalities which are a result of past injustice, even if those who pay the costs of such compensation had no part in that injustice? Does justice permit or require programs such as affirmative action and acts of civil disobedience to correct past and present injustice? Lectures, readings, research and case studies are used to help students differentiate between and decide among the claims of rival accounts of justice which compete for our moral, social, and political allegiance. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and legacy of social movements in the United States, starting with the revolutionary movement for independence. The abolitionist, suffrage, antiimperialist, labor, anti racist, civil liberties, antiwar, feminist, environmental, gay/lesbian, human rights/global justice, anti death penalty struggles are among the movements to be studied. Howard Zinn's justice, anti death penalty struggles are among the movements to be studied. Howard Zinn's People's Historyof the United States will be used to provide the historical contexts for these movements. There is also a weekly lecture series in the evening organized to run parallel with the course, with leading activists talking about their experiences in many of the movements studied in class.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major social issues from a sociological perspective. Topics will include: corporate power, inequalities of race, gender and class; the changing structure of work; crime and punishment; homelessness; poverty and social welfare; the media, ideology and public policy; and the role of government in addressing social problems. ( Summer)
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of research methods used in social science investigation which helps students prepare a proposal for research. The proposal will serve as a basis for the Senior Advanced Research Seminar. The following will be included in the proposal: overall description of the project, including: ? a thesis statement ? a review of the literature ? a preliminary statement of the general research question and the methods which will be used ? a tentative bibliography ( Spring)
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