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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course considers how oppressive social realities inform the lives and the study of socially marginal and politically disempowered groups. While emphasis is placed on the experiences of people of African descent, the class covers issues of power, definition, bias, resistance, and resilience that are also prominent in the histories of other marginalized groups in the U.S. Prerequisite: One course in Sociology or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course The study of social change begins with the neolithic revolution when humans first took up agriculture and follows changes in social organization, structures, processes and lifeways through the present. The course emphasizes large-scale, long-term processes, including social evolution. Students learn to think about current social processes in a long-term perspective and develop skills for understanding and influencing possible future changes. Prerequisites: SOC 100 and at least one 200-level sociology course, or equivalent in other social sciences. This course may not be taken pass/fail.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course examines multiple systems of privilege and oppression, such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexuality. The course considers how these systems of inequality intersect to influence people s experiences of social processes (e.g., discrimination, stereotyping, and violence) and various social institutions (e.g., family, paid labor, education, and media).
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course Drawing on sociology, psychology, and cultural and feminist studies, this course explores how understandings and experiences of womanhood are largely shaped by the gendered norms and expectations of our cultural contexts. Investigating the intimate connections between identity change and social transformation, the course emphasizes how women -- diverse with respect to age, ability, class, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation encounter and at times resist circumstances they find oppressive.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course examines intimate violence from a historically grounded, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. We explore the meaning of intimate violence, its relationship to violence in general, its root causes, and its universal and parochial forms. In addition to exposure to various theories of violence, we consider the usefulness of these theories in explaining specific empirical cases of intimate violence (e.g., rape, child abuse, hate crimes, femicide and trafficking in women) with an eye toward understanding these micro-level phenomena in broader social, cultural, economic and political context. Prerequisite: one course in sociology or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course focuses on sociological analyses of prisons in the United States from their inception to present day. Racism, poverty and masculinity provide a central analytic frame for understanding this unique and powerful form of social control. We consider the following questions: Why do we incarcerate more people than any other country in the world Why are poor, young, African-American men disproportionately represented in prison Was convict leasing simply slavery in a different guise Why is prison big business, and who benefits from it Does prison create crime What does prison do to those who live and work behind bars What is the future of incarceration Prerequisites: one course in sociology or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course addresses the differences, origins, life-cycle and factors promoting and/or attenuating ethnic conflict. After surveying general theories of ethnic conflict, each student will identify, select, study, and report in oral and written form on one instance of ethnic conflict in depth. Since ethnic conflicts have occurred since the dawn of civilization, or for some 5,000 years, cases may be drawn from current or historical conflicts. The class as a whole will compare all the cases to discern the varieties, commonalities and specificities of ethnic conflict. Prerequisite: at least one course on race and ethnicity and one additional course in the social sciences. This course may not be taken pass/fail.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Group 2,1 course This course will be one of "discovery". Students will read about various frontiers, then work together to develop a theory or explanation of frontiers. Subtopics will be racial/ethnic conflict and continuity, ethnogenesis (creating new ethnic groups and/or identities), transformations of ways of making a living, shifting boundaries, etc. Frontiers will range of the last 3,000 years all over the world, with a strong emphasis on the western US and Asia. Students should have had at least one relevant course: Sociology of Race/Ethnicity, North American Indians, or history course on the west or Native Americans, or colonialism.
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1.00 Credits
1 course A seminar dealing with elements of the scientific method as they apply to research in sociology and other social sciences. Covers strategies of research design, scaling and measurement; questionnaires and interviews; projection and other indirect methods; processing, analysis, interpretation of data and testing of hypotheses. Prerequisite: junior Sociology major or permission of instructor. This course may not be taken pass/fail.
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1.00 Credits
1 course A seminar of senior Sociology or Sociology/Anthropology majors focused around a major substantive or methodological area of sociology. The course involves a core of common reading, discussion and the writing and presenting of a senior thesis related to the general focus of the seminar. Topics might include: global struggles for human rights, cultural conflict in American society, social problems in global/historical perspective, and race & ethnicity. Prerequisite: senior Sociology or Sociology/Anthropology major.
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