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This course joins the ongoing debate about the meaning of press freedom and explores the relationship between news and democracy. It will examine how the news media operate in American society and will assess how well the current media are serving the information needs of citizens. Topics may include: the meaning of "objectivity," the relationship between journalists and sources, news and public opinion, ownership of news media, the relationship between news and advertising, propaganda and news management, and the role of alternative media. Mr. Hoynes.Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Religion 267)Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Africana Studies 268 and Religion 268) Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Education 269b) Students from low-income families and racial/ethnic minority backgrounds do poorly in school by comparison with their white and well-to-do peers. These students drop out of high school at higher rates, score lower on standardized tests, have lower GPA's, and are less likely to attend and complete college. In this course we examine theories and research that seek to explain patterns of differential educational achievement in U.S. schools. We study theories that focus on the characteristics of settings in which teaching and learning take place (e.g. schools, classrooms, and home), theories that focus on the characteristics of groups (e.g. racial/ethnic groups and peer groups), and theories that examine how cultural processes mediate political-economic constraints and human action. Ms. Rueda.
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An examination of drug use and its symbolic importance in American society viewed in light of pertinent historical and cross-cultural material. Includes discussion of problems linked with licit and illicit, recreational, social control, and medicinal use of drugs, as well as with political and legal dimension of drug controversies. Mr. McAulay. Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Science, Technology and Society 273a) The new economy is, in one sense, a very old concern of sociology. Since the discipline's nineteenth century origins, sociologists have traditionally studied how changes in material production and economic relations impact the ways that people live, work, understand their lives, and relate to one another. However, current interests in the new economy center upon something new: a flexible, "just in time" mode of industry and consumerism made possible by information technologies and related organizational innovations. The logic of this new economy, as well as its consequences for society, are the subject of this course. Topics include the roles of technology in the workplace, labor markets, and globalization; the emerging "creative class"; the digital divides in technology access, education, and community; high-tech lifestyles and privacy; and the cutting edges of consumerism. Mr. Nevar
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What is the history of the prisoner Who becomes a prisoner and what does the prisoner become once incarcerated What is the relationship between crime and punishment Focusing on the (global) prison industrial complex, this course critically interrogates the massive and increasing numbers of people imprisoned in the United States and around the world. The primary focus of this course is the prisoner and on the movement to abolish imprisonment as we know it. Topics covered in this course include: racial and gender inequality, the relationship between imprisonment and slavery, social death, the prisoner of war (POW), migrant incarceration, as well as prisoner resistance and rebellion. Students also come away from the course with a complex understanding of penal abolition and alternative models of justice. Mr. Alamo-Pastrana
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(Same as American Culture 284b)
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(Same as Latin American and Latino/a Studies 285a) In the year 2000, the U.S. Census revealed a landmark demographic development: The Latino population of 35.3 million eclipsed the African American population of 33.9 million to become the nation's largest racial/ethnic minority group. This course examines the varieties of the Latino experience by considering all of the major subgroups that constitute the Latino population in the U.S.-Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American and Dominican. We examine this highly heterogeneous population by focusing on socio-historical themes such as patterns of immigration, U.S. relations with Latin America, and processes of racialization and identity formation. We also examine key topics such as the impact of immigration and assimilation on family structures and language maintenance, and Latino access to healthcare, education, and political participation. This course provides an overview of the experiences of a population that is now a significant proportion of the U.S. population, yet one that is filled with contradictions, tensions and fissures, and defies simple generalizations. Ms. Rueda.
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3.00 Credits
Individual project of reading or research. The department. May be elected during the college year or during the summer. Special permission. Unscheduled.
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