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4.00 Credits
The senior thesis offers the qualified student an opportunity for more intensive work in the field. Minimum criteria for admission to the program are a 3.5 average in government courses, a satisfactory overall academic record, completion of Government 290 with a grade of 3.0 or better and the presentation of an acceptable research proposal. Interested students are required to submit a research proposal to the department by the end of the spring semester of the junior year.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to how and why particular groups of people act, think and feel as they do from a social perspective. The course explores different kinds of sociological explanations as well as a variety of substantive areas within the discipline, including deviance, power, social inequality, the family, collective behavior, formal organizations and others. The substantive areas emphasized vary by instructor. Not open to seniors.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the sociological perspective through examination of global actors, processes and problems. The course focuses on the process of the consolidation of the world into a single economy. While some people and some regions have benefited greatly, others have suffered tremendously. In this class we look at how social disparities take shape and figure out the reasons they are justified. Not open to seniors. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course that examines forces behind the unequal distribution of economic, political, social, cultural and psychological rewards in contemporary U.S. society and globally. The course also examines the consequences of this distribution for both individuals and societies. Students are encouraged to take a closer look at social inequality through fieldwork projects and autobiographical reflections. Not open to seniors. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the causes of and responses to the phenomena labeled "social problems." The course examines howsocial phenomena are defined as problems and developed into issues. We investigate the role of the media, social movements, government and private capital in identifying problems and placing them on the public agenda. We also focus on a variety of policies proposed (and/or implemented) in response to specific social problems and the political conflicts that result from competing policy alternatives. The social impacts of various policy options associated with these issues are explored. Not open to seniors.
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4.00 Credits
Is film racist? Classist? Sexist? Homophobic? In this class, we consider both the dominant stories that films produce and the tales of otherness that emerge from alternative readings of film. We examine questions of representation in film and how those representations are directly linked to the political realm. In addition, we consider how films speak to questions such as racial, sexual and political identity. Working from Marxist and post-Marxist theory, we also consider questions of capitalism/ post-capitalism and technology, alienation, deviance and social control, and inequality. Not open to seniors. Also offered through Caribbean and Latin American Studies and Film Studies.
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4.00 Credits
How do natural systems shape social systems? Ho do social systems reshape natural systems? Whom do these two types of systems conflict? Through exploration of these questions, this course introduces students to the theoretical and empirical study of the dynamic interaction of human society and the natural environment. Students critically examine the social origins and ecological impacts of the production, consumption and distribution of goods, services and ideas domestically and transnationally. The course will challenge a wide range of environmental beliefs. Also offered as Environmental Studies 187 and through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course is about "looking" and "seeing" and about the powof visual representations. The course examines the use of the visual and visual representations to reveal aspects of society operating on both the macro and micro levels. Substantive questions are explored through individual and group projects. Also offered through Film Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course brings under scrutiny the false dichotomies crowding the sociological imagination: structure/agency, history/theory, macro/micro, global/local. The broad-based analytical perspective enables students to understand theory in its historical location. Students are encouraged and expected to reflect on the explanatory models themselves as political and cultural constructions located in time and place and consider the role of power in definitions of reality. Required of all majors. Also offered through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This introduction to social science ways of thinking about sex and gender provides an overview of contributions from a variety of disciplines and considers both theoretical and historical materials. We examine the social construction of gender and sexuality and the ways gender and sexuality and society interact and impact on each other and how change takes place. The social developments and history of gender and sexualities are explored, and contemporary issues studied. In particular, how and why gender and sex became politicized, and continue to be so, is explored. Also offered through Gender Studies.
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