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4.00 Credits
This course compares women's movements in Canada, Québecand the United States. It examines the different ways the movement organized, chose priorities, dealt with internal and external conflict, and addressed the state. We address the political, cultural, historical and structural differences among the societies which shaped the movements and influenced the outcomes for women and for the social order generally. Particular attention is paid to diversities within the movements, and within the societies. The course comparatively traces the histories of the three societies, beginning with Aboriginal peoples, and concludes with examination of social forces today. Also offered through Global Studies, Canadian Studies and Gender Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Environmental concerns have generated diverse social movements and organizations, both domestically and globally. These range widely from conservation to deep ecology, from preservationism to environmental justice, from animal rights to anti-nuclear, from labor struggles to indigenism, from anti-corporate globalization to wise-use movements, from the neo-Luddites to the ecological modernizationists. This seminar explores the social origins and impacts of these distinct movements and organizations with emphasis on their conflicting and converging goals, tactics, strategies, ideologies and constituencies. The class will develop, design, implement and analyze an environmental political action whose focus, goals and tactics will be determined by the students. Also offered as Environmental Studies 375 and through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
In this course, we explore consumption along a wide range of material dimensions. The sociology of consumption is concerned with the relationships of (a) the social to the natural and (b) the social to the social and (c) their consequences, such as social disruption and environmental destruction; "things" are fetishizedand humans are commodified. The sociology of consumption helps us to understand this in the context of both the capitalist world economy and cultural expressions from early modernity to postmodernity.
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4.00 Credits
Since 1969, more than 3,300 deaths have been officially attributed to "The Troubles." The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 promisedcommitment to end factional hostilities in Northern Ireland. But the complex nature of the conflict continues to threaten this fragile accord. This seminar examines the historical, political, economic, religious, ideological and cultural forces that shape Northern Ireland's conflict. It examines the ways in which these forces shape, respond to and interact with identity and community, affect daily life and extend beyond the borders of Northern Ireland. Also offered through European Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Open to students who wish to pursue more specialized or advanced sociological study and research under faculty supervision. Students wishing to enroll must find a sociology faculty sponsor and prepare a research proposal outlining the intended thesis, methodology and ethical considerations including the application for human subjects review approval where necessary. Prerequisite: at least two sociology courses. Permission of instructor is required.
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4.00 Credits
What is the "environment"? How do we know it's in trouble? Whshould we protect it? What are we protecting it from? Who are we protecting it for? We examine both the social origins of the major environmental stresses facing us today and the political conflicts that these stresses have produced. We focus on the role of society's use of natural resources in creating these crises, as well as the way societies identify them as social problems, then examine the social responses. We explore the ways in which these responses lead to political conflicts. Finally, we examine the outcomes of environmental conflicts at local, national and international levels and seek to develop viable solutions to real socioenvironmental problems.
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4.00 Credits
"Globalization" and "sustainability" are two of the most contestterms in current political conflicts over the future of development. In this seminar we seek to define these terms and explore the impacts of economic transnationalization on the potential for achieving socially and ecologically "sustainable" developmenttrajectories at local, regional, national and transnational levels. We examine the linkages between transnational economic processes, local environmental and social conditions, national environmental protection initiatives, and international and intranational inequality. The fusion of place, production and identity politics in efforts to resist the dominant model of globalization and forge more socially just and ecologically sound alternatives will be explored. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Open to students who wish to pursue more specialized or advanced sociological study and research under faculty supervision. Students wishing to enroll must find a sociology faculty sponsor and prepare a research proposal outlining the intended thesis, methodology and ethical considerations including the application for human subjects review approval where necessary. Prerequisites: Sociology 203 and 301. Open to seniors only. Permission of department chair required. Required of all majors.
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4.00 Credits
Honors will be granted to students who have a 3.5 GPA in sociology and who have completed and defended a thesis before a departmental committee. Prerequisites: Sociology 203 and 301. Open to seniors only. Permission of department chair required.
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0.50 Credits
(0.5 unit) This course is intended to expand the student's awareness of the potential of physical activity to establish and sustain physical fitness and to enrich one's quality of life. The course is designed to provide each student with conceptual and practical exposure to principles of fitness and wellness that will be useful throughout the adult years. This course does not count toward the SSES minor.
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