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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on dress and material/visual culture in American history starting with the colonial period. It will introduce methodology, and offer an overview of key themes in the history of dress and consumerism within the framework of gender studies.
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3.00 Credits
How have Americans responded at home to war and threats of war throughout the 20th century and into the 21st? What internal divisions and shared identities has war inspired or revealed? We will examine not the battles and factors that determined the military outcomes, but the domestic struggles that have defined our national experience and informed many of our responses to current events. Topics will include: critiques of democracy and civil rights inclusion during WWI; treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII; development of peace movements, anti-nuclear movements; cold war politics and fears of American communism; debates over the draft, just-war, racism at home, and US policies abroad in the wake of Vietnam. The final unit will focus on the Gulf War, terrorism, and developments since September 11, 2001.
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3.00 Credits
Social inequality is a prominent and persistent feature of modern society. Social stratification theory attempts to explain the causes of inequality and the reasons for its persistence. This course will address such questions as: Why are some people rich and some people poor? Why does inequality persist? Who gets ahead? Can men and women get the same jobs? Do different races have the same opportunities? Is inequality necessary? Potential topics include inner-city and rural poverty, welfare dependency, homelessness, status attainment and occupational mobility, racial and ethnic stratification, and gender stratification and class theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce you to theoretical interpretations of criminal behavior, empirical research on crime in diverse contexts, and policy debates on crime control and punishment. Our intent will be to raise critical questions and to challenge commonly held views about the nature of crime and punishment in the United States today. We will operate under the assumption that crime and punishment are social phenomena; they can only be understood by analyzing their relationship to the broader social, political, and cultural context in which they exist. With a particular emphasis on race, class, and gender, we will explore crime and practices of punishment in three social contexts: "the street," paid work settings, and intimate and family relations.
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3.00 Credits
Given the changing demographics of the U.S. population, it has become increasingly important to understand how culture influences everyday life. This course will examine the impact of culture, ethnicity, and race on human behavior within the framework of psychological theory and research. Using an ecological perspective, the multiple contexts of individual, family, community, and society will inform the study of diverse populations. In particular, there will be an emphasis on ethnic minority groups in the U.S., including: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and Latino/a Americans. Within-group variations associated with culture-specific or indigenous concepts, acculturation, and minority identity development will be explored in depth.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the link between racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. and the American education system. We will discuss sociological understandings of racial and ethnic inequality in education over the past several decades. Moving beyond black-white inequality, this course will examine the political, cultural, and historical perspectives of racial and ethnic inequality among and between racialized groups in the U.S. Students will be introduced to central sociological debates within the fields of race/ethnicity and education. We will also pay some attention to the changing nature of racial and ethnic inequality in education over the latter part of the twentieth century and the future of racial and ethnic inequality in education during the 21st century.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines popular medical concepts and expectations patients bring with them to the clinical or hospital setting, as well as the attitudes, organization, and goals of clinical medical care. Students divide their time between classroom and service as patient/family liaisons in an area emergency room. Student access to a car is necessary.
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3.00 Credits
While issues of Race and Racism are pervasive in our society, most people know surprisingly little about the social, biological, political, and historical factors at play. Race is simultaneously a very real social construct and a very artificial biological one. How can this be? Why do we care so much about classifications/divisions of humanity? This course will tackle the Anthropology of Race from a critical perspective. We will learn about the biology of human difference and similarity, how societies view such similarities and differences, how our social and scientific histories create these structures, and why this knowledge is both extremely important and too infrequently discussed.
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3.00 Credits
How Latinos are racialized often defies the common understanding of race as either black or white. This course attempts to complicate this debate by exploring the historical, political, economic and social structures that determine the ethnic and racial stratification of Latinos in the United States. Topics include the multigenerational experience of Latinos, contemporary immigration, Latino youth and gender.
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3.00 Credits
While issues of race and racism are pervasive in our society, most people know surprisingly little about the social, biological, political, and historical factors at play. Race is simultaneously a very real social construct and a very artificial biological one. How can this be? Why do we care so much about classifications/divisions of humanity? This course will tackle what race is and what it is not from an anthropological perspective. We will learn about the biology of human difference and similarity, how societies view such similarities and differences, how our social and scientific histories create these structures, and why this knowledge is both extremely important and too infrequently discussed.
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