Introduction to basic sociological concepts. Examines aspects of human behavior in cultural framework, including individual and group interaction, social mobility and stratification, status and class, race and gender relations, urbanism, crime and criminology, and social change and reform.

Offers introduction to sociology through conduct of original student research, informed by small group and classroom discussion of sociological ideas and methods exemplified by seminal texts. Especially recommended for students considering majoring in sociology, as well as students interested in studying sociology as a liberal art.

Examines and analyzes important global issues and processes. Considers historical development of globalization and implications for different societies and cultures. Investigates perceptions of global processes by different cultures and nations, and efforts of international institutions to address social, political, economic, and cultural changes in global society.

Explores ways in which individuals are both architects and prisoners of society. Offers a foundational course for examining the “invisible” social forces that shape our lives and the individual and collective capacity to make choices, including social and cultural change. Includes topics such as youth and culture, deviance and crime, social inequalities, and global change.

Focuses on causes and meaning of crime, with emphasis on adults. Patterns of criminal behavior, including property crimes, violent crimes, organized crime, white-collar crime, and victimless crime. Critical assessment of criminal justice system as a response to crime.

Examines social factors involved in development of delinquency, including family, political economy, schooling, community environment and culture. Examines various theories of delinquency; rates of delinquency in relation to age, race, gender and social class; and legal system that addresses causes, consequences, and policies of punishment and rehabilitation.

Introduces empirical design in sociological research: historical development, research design, sampling, methods of gathering data, sociometric scales, analysis and interpretation of results, and research reporting.

Introduces the basic concepts of economic sociology. Explores how the world of work has changed due to globalization, deindustrialization, new technologies, and economic crisis. Focuses on providing students with a better understanding of how markets and corporations work, and about new economic approaches to create new, potentially less alienating work environments.

Characteristics, structure, and processes of small group dynamics; theories and models of group analysis, techniques of observation and research in small groups; research theory and application of small group knowledge to such natural groups as mutual aid self-help groups, families, juvenile delinquent gangs, and task groups in work sites.

Explores processes for organizing resistance to current social and power arrangements, from terrorism to nonviolent civil resistance to create alternative institutions, policies, or leadership that promote human rights and social justice. Uses historical and contemporary case studies of local and global change to explore, how, why, and to what effect individuals have organized to protest the status quo and create social change.

Explores how race and ethnicity have been shaped by policies and practices in Western and non-Western societies. Explores the evolution of racial and ethnic attitudes from a global and historical perspective. Examines how changing demographic racial patterns may affect definitions of race and ethnicity and the ways in which people individually and collectively act to create new futures.

Uses a sociological framework to analyze and understand the diverse forms of contemporary families--traditional marriages, cohabitation, domestic partnerships, single-parents families, stepfamilies, and gay and lesbian families. Explored are topics such as changes in sexual mores, reflected in new dating practices; shifting parenting roles; effects of social class, race and ethnicity; and the outcomes of divorce for couples and children.

Analyzes macro- and microlevel deviance-producing processes, meaning and control of deviance, and major theoretical approaches to deviance.

Explores sociological tradition through readings and discussions of ideas drawn from writings of selected sociological thinkers such as Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and others.

Introduces ethnography, field work methods, interviewing, life histories, and other qualitative methods to generate data about cultures in which various groups and classes are immersed. Students learn by applying qualitative methods to term projects, developed under guidance of instructor.

Fundamentals of applied statistics as used in behavioral science to include descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, correlation regression, analysis of variance, factor analysis, nonparametric statistics, and practical experience with calculators in applying statistical analysis to actual problems of the behavioral sciences.

Examines how culture, encompassing high art or participatory culture, expressive agency or traditional constraint, is produced and reproduced in everyday social practices and across a wide range of social institutions. Explores the role of culture in public life and political discourse.

Analyzes the roles of men and women in contemporary American society. Focuses on the perpetuation of and change in gender stratification using sociological concepts, theories, and research. Elucidates how gender expectations are developed and transmitted. Uses historical and comparative data and research on diversity in American society for analysis of causes and consequences of gender inequality.

While focusing on nature and process of change in human society, considers social impact of political, economic, and environmental change and how lives are shaped by complexities of global social forces. Examines specific global issues such as conflict and security; economic disparity; ecological deterioration; populations and migration; legitimization of commerce; diffusion of innovations; and impact of class, status, and power in modern societies. Designated a Green Leaf Course.

Examines political, economic, and sociocultural reasons why countries engage in armed conflict. Conflicts within and between states are explored with special focus on consequences for global, regional and local instability, loss of life and limb, and fragmentation of social, political, and economic fabric of societies. Examines various approaches to conflict resolution.

Examines cities and the people who live in them in the United States and around the world. Includes topics such as: social and economic development, inequality, political protests, urban democracy, and the environment.

Analyzes how power is defined, attained and sustained in society. Students analyze political power as related to social realities such as democratic elections, class conflict, elite networks, powersharing, protest, and revolution.

Develops practical skills for reducing prejudice and building community within diverse workplaces, educational and civic organizations and local neighborhoods. Specific skills taught empower individuals to be effective communicators across differences, work with controversial issues and build multicultural coalitions.

Using a sociological perspective, analyzes the problems of contemporary societies, including inequality, poverty, health, environment, oligarchy, media, militarism, and corruption.

Studies class structures and implications for individuals and groups in modern society. Explores issues of race and ethnicity, language and immigration status, sex and gender, social class, age, and sexual orientation. Examines critically the theory and research that explore the construction, experience, and meaning of such differences.

Introduces sociology of youth and youth culture. Investigates social, economic, and political realities of youth as a group and different groups of youth, including youth cultural production, formation of youth culture, and youth identities in variety of social settings.

Examines small to moderate-size communities ranging through village, rural community, small town, and city subcommunity. Latter category includes city localities, ethnic villages, and suburban communities.

Introduces the many ways in which art reflects social tendencies, comments on social problems, and contributes to discussions about a wide range of social issues. Students attend theatrical performances and visit exhibition spaces on campus, and learn to analyze what they experience through both aesthetic and sociological approaches. Explores contemporary issues such as debates about artistic freedom and public morality, commercialization of art, and relationship between cultural and social hierarchies.

Examines classrooms and schools as social institutions that function as socializing agents for both stability and societal change. Emphasizes the influence of inequality on educational processes and outcomes and critically examines the social organization of the U.S. public school system.

Analyzes human services emphasizing government-sponsored, nonprofit organizations and informal voluntary services, and their interrelationships with health care and welfare systems. Comparative analysis of services in other societies. Observation in service agencies.

Studies places of religious consciousness in human action and institutional and organizational networks created to sustain religious beliefs. Emphasizes comparative and historical analysis of role religion has played in human society. Examines theories of nature of religious experience, religious symbolism, and basis of religious community. Explores changing demographics in relation to older traditional religious faiths and newer nontraditional faiths.

Examines social context of health, illness, and disability; relationships of health care professionals and patients; and structure and delivery of health care in different medical systems.

Introduces the research interests of the faculty, offering new courses that reflect current issues not yet incorporated into the curriculum. Offers, in addition, advanced study into topics covered in the standing curriculum. Topics change by semester.

Individual study of sociological topic of interest to student.

Theories explaining forms of punishment systems; punishment and corrections as products of historical, cultural, and political changes; differences by race and gender in punishment and corrections. Problems of social control and violence in prisons, alternative rehabilitation, and community prevention strategies.

Overview of management and analysis of empirical social science data, including file construction, scaling and measurement, data transformation, and treatment of missing data. Emphasizes manipulation, management, and analysis of data sets using computers.

Surveys research methods and techniques to collect, measure, and analyze social data, attitudes, and opinions with special emphasis on using computer software, the Internet, and other information technologies for social research. Highlights ethical issues for social research, computing, and information technology.

Presents for analysis and discussion the significant theorists and themes in contemporary sociological theory. Designed to enhance student’s skills in reading and analyzing primary texts and to encourage reflection on contemporary social reality. Fulfills writing intensive requirement.

Interaction of language and social structure. Focuses on language as revealing culturally specific rules of interpretation; sex, class, race, and setting of specific uniformities in producing talk; and language as it constrains individuals.

Intended to promote learning in application of sociological knowledge, and build skills in different work settings. Students work in approved setting as applied sociologists.

In-depth investigation of planned social change through field work internship with change organization of student's choice. Groups may be involved in influencing peace, environment, civil rights, consumer protection, poverty, or other public issues. Topics include ideologies, targets, organizational structures, opposition, and strategies of change.

Aging from a sociological perspective. Topics include demographic trends and aging population in America, social construction of life stages and creation of "old age," cultural labeling, and human resistance.

Examines Holocaust, destruction of European Jewry, through testimonies of survivors and narratives of historians. Topics include historical and cultural circumstances that encouraged German anti-Semitism, rise of Nazism, ghettoization of Jews in Poland, Jewish life in ghettos, European Jews under Nazi occupation, Jewish resistance, Christian rescuers, invasion of Russia and mobile killing units, life in hiding and passing, forced labor camps and concentration camps, responses of United States and world, and reflections on Holocaust today. Also considers eyewitness testimony, memory, narrative, and literature.

Theoretical and practical strategies for crime prevention and deterrence. Social, environmental, and mechanical developments. Police, courts, and correctional elements of law enforcement in terms of current effectiveness and future potential for crime prevention.

Prerequisite for 575: undergraduate senior status in sociology or graduate standing. Analyzes changing position of women in law from legal and sociological perspectives. Focuses on how law defines and regulates women's rights in variety of areas such as employment, marriage and divorce, reproduction and control of one's body, and violence against women. Explores social and economic consequences of various legal doctrines, and compares laws and policies in United States with those in other countries.

Develop research proposals and an appropriate bibliography for honors thesis under the guidance of a sociology faculty member.

Pursue independent research and write honors thesis under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Present work in a colloquium at the end of the semester.

Provides hands-on experience in sociology and opportunity to do research in approved work settings. In addition to 120 hours of field work (for 3 credits), students meet at discretion of instructor to plan their research and share ongoing field work experiences.

Exposes students to sociological theory and research on evolution of higher learning in United States. Explores social forces that have shaped the distinctively American approach toward higher education and have led to transformation of higher education in contemporary society. Particular attention to relation between universities and elites within surrounding society, linkage between education and industry, norms and values that are presupposed by educational institutions, and bearing of sports on values and traditions of higher education.

Theories, analysis of types of organizations from informal voluntary associations to large complex ones. Explores nonprofit organizations and alternatives to bureaucracies, such as feminist collectives, cooperatives, self-help groups, and social movement organizations. Students do field work in organizations applying theories and concepts to observations.

Investigation of sociological problem according to individual interest, with emphasis on research.

Introduces the research interests of the faculty, offering new courses that reflect current issues not yet incorporated into the curriculum. Offers, in addition, advanced study into topics covered in the standing curriculum. Topics change by semester.

Classical and contemporary sociological theories applied to law and legal institutions. Social relations between law and community, special group interests, social change, and social deviance. Case studies. Consideration of legal profession.

Learning experience in the application of sociological knowledge and skills in different work settings. Students work in approved setting as applied sociologists.

Examines Holocaust, destruction of European Jewry, through testimonies of survivors and narratives of historians. Topics include historical and cultural circumstances that encouraged German anti-Semitism; rise of Nazism; ghettoization of Jews in Poland; Jewish life in ghettos; European Jews under Nazi occupation; Jewish resistance; Christian rescuers; invasion of Russia and mobile killing units; life in hiding and passing, forced labor camps, and concentration camps; responses of United States and world; and reflections on Holocaust today. Also considers eyewitness testimony, memory, narrative, and literature.

Analyzes changing position of women in law from legal and sociological perspectives. Focuses on how law defines and regulates women's rights in variety of areas such as employment, marriage and divorce, reproduction and control of one's body, and violence against women. Explores social and economic consequences of various legal doctrines, and compares laws and policies in United States with those in other countries.

Advanced study of links among gender, race, and nature using social-psychological framework, original sources, and seminar discussion format. Analyzes ideologies that underpin interlocking narratives of gender, race, and nature; and examines role of science in production of those ideologies.

Contemporary topics in sociology including sociological theory, crime and delinquency, advanced research methods, social and cultural change, urban sociology, medical sociology, sociology of aging, and rural sociology.

Reviews theories explaining the development and maintenance of gender. Using historical and comparative data, examines perceived, prescribed, and actual sex differentiation in social, political, and economic roles. Begins with gender as a social structure and then examines contemporary research as support or refutation for variety of theoretical paradigms. Includes discussion of gender in intimate relationship and the public sector.

Crime and crime causation. Topics include social basis of law, administration of justice, and control and prevention of crime.

Sociology of adolescent behavior. Sociological factors that determine which behaviors and social categories of adolescents are likely to be labeled and treated as delinquent.

Explores development of modern penal system as interpreted by various perspectives, including Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Foucault, Elias, and Garland. Explores recent trends and problems, including social control and violence in prisons, race and gender disparities in punishment, alternative rehabilitation, and prevention strategies.

Analyzes 20th-century debates in American culture and cultural politics, with emphasis on art and popular culture, news media, and competing notions of "the public." In-depth readings in cultural sociology cover variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.

Deals with sociology of conflict. Presents major sociological theories of conflict such as those of Marx, Weber, Simmel, Dahrendorf, Coser, and Collins. Stresses role that sociological conflict theory plays in undergirding conflict management practices.

Emphasizes gathering, interpreting, and evaluating scientific evidence. Covers logic of scientific inquiry, including the application of various research designs and data collection methods. Develops critical-thinking skills by using set of rules and logical criteria for evaluation of social science research. Focuses both on how results are obtained and disseminated via research reports.

Covers demographic purview of U.S. and other global racial and ethnic groups and racial and ethnic groups as human-social-minority and dominant groups. Explores factors contributing to dominant and minority status and means of altering dominant groups assessment of minority group status.

Introduces theory, method, and practice of survey research design and analysis. Students complete survey research project.

Studies methodological issues related to evaluation of social programs. Explores conceptual and research design issues in relation to social programs, particularly delivery of social services. Includes examination of methods used to assess need for programs, impact of delivery systems, and efficiency and effectiveness of social programs.

Specialized inquiry of topics of contemporary sociological research and scholarship. Content varies.

Examines basic research methods involving observational techniques and procedures used in description and analysis of patterns, configurations, ethos, eidos, structures, functions, and styles typical of whole societies and cultures. Emphasizes case studies, unobtrusive methods, participant observation, longterm residence, choices of observer status role, recording data, uses of technical equipment, key informants, interviewing techniques, and ethical considerations in employing such methods and procedures.

Overview of human ecology and environmental sociology, emphasizing selected topics. Focuses on theory, since theory makes it possible to generalize from understandings derived in an analysis of a particular problem and apply them to other problems.

Intermediate treatment of quantitative analytic techniques used in sociology. Topics include sampling, inference, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and bivariate and multiple correlation and regression. Introduces logic of multivariate analysis. Focus on how results are obtained and disseminated via research reports.

Major theories of social organization and social change as means of understanding social policy development. Concentration is on social policies in American society.

Changing health care systems are rapidly affecting patient providers and health and quality of life of society. Offers analysis and theories of change in health care systems and impacts on society and various stakeholders. Examines for-profit and nonprofit organizations and their impacts, and offers comparative cross-cultural analysis of health care systems.

Seminar in theory and methods of historical and comparative sociology, primarily for students with background in sociological theory and methods. Examines basic approaches and research data of history and sociology, surveys development of field, and analyzes exemplary studies.

Analyzes sociological issues in aging, including class and cultural factors, problems of work, retirement, attachment and loss, and ageism. Examines different theories of aging.

Examines classical and contemporary theories and analysis governing formal organizations, their development, and characteristics and relationships to society. Considers alternative conceptualizations to bureaucracy such as learning organizations, self-help groups, feminist collectives, cooperatives, and social movement organizations. Nonprofit, governmental, and business organizations are dissected.

Theoretical and research literature chosen by student and instructor.

Theoretical and research literature chosen by student and instructor.

In-depth examination of major issues in classical (pre-1930) sociological theory. Analyzes Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Mead, and others, and emphasizes social and intellectual context of their theories.

Examines schools in contemporary sociological theory such as structural-functionalism, conflict, exchange, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, humanist sociology, and critical theory. Analyzes contemporary theorists in relation to schools.

Introduces multiple regression and causal analysis to sociological researchers, with a focus on obtaining and disseminating results. Moves from linear regression to the general linear model with several variables, its extensions, assumptions, and regression diagnostics. Examines the use of dummy variable and the analysis of interaction effects. Considers systems of equations and nonlinear outcomes.

Public forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary sociological research.

Master’s thesis research under direction of thesis committee.

The first of a two-semester core sequence devoted to the philosophical, historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions of public and applied sociology within the United States. Traces the evolution of the field during the 20th century, from its inception in the Chicago school and the studies of W.E.B. DuBois to more recent formulations, as these bear on the interplay between social scientific knowledge and public decisions and debates.

Analyzes the interrelations between social inequalities and institutional structures, including markets, the press, prisons, mental institutions, cultural organizations, and corporations.

Addresses the social, political, cultural, and economic process of globalization. Explores the limits on globalization during the precapitalist era, the relation between empire and the internal structure of imperialist societies, theoretical debates over the contemporary world system, the relation between cities and globalization, and the link between globalization and social inequality within both developed and developing societies.

Specialized inquiry of topics of contemporary sociological research and scholarship. Content varies.

Examines the social, organizational, and cultural processes that account for the differential distribution of job rewards along class, gender, and racial and ethnic lines. Topics include the historical evolution of the management worker relationship, job segregation by race and gender, the effect of new technologies on social inequality, the relation between gender and professional careers, the efficacy of governmental efforts to ensure equal opportunity, and the effect of organizational change on racial and gender inequalities at work.

Uses sociological perspectives to understand the various ways in which popular youth culture, schooling processes, and consumer culture intersect in contemporary American cultural life. Examines the social, economic, and political realities of youth as a group and the formation of distinct youth cultures within and outside formal school settings, including schooling and commodity culture, how markets promote and hinder particular educational ideologies, and how corner markets operate as spaces of cultural learning.

Exposes students to the major theories, debates, and findings within the sociology of education, emphasizing the reciprocal influences of schooling and social inequalities within contemporary societies. Emphasis on the historical evolution of public schooling in the United States, the complex relation between schooling and economic institutions, class differences in educational opportunity, and the politics of educational reform.

Analyzes socioeconomic and political change, focusing on the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offers a basic descriptive understanding of processes of change in these countries and an introduction to major theoretical perspectives on development and globalization, from classical theories of comparative advantage to theories of imperialism, modernization, dependency, and globalization.

Analyzes current issues in the study of social movements, with an emphasis on the ways in which globalization shapes and in turn is shaped by social movements. Emphasis is placed on the relations among the strategies, identities, and organizations bound up with transnational social movements and the relation between the dynamics of global political and economic developments and protest movements in core and peripheral societies.

Examines the scholarly literature on cities and globalization with a focus on the impact of globalization on urban environments and the effects of urbanization on the processes of globalization. Emphasis on the ways in which globalization restructures urban life in the core and periphery of the world economy with attention paid to the effects of spatial dispersion on the character of economic institutions within the advanced societies, the shifting nature of crime and security, immigration, and the cities of the Global South.

Examines the connections among inequality, conflict, social justice, and human rights in an age of globalization. Drawing from case studies from around the world, course examines institutional and structural violence and inequality as they relate to state, corporate, and military power; international law and order; welfare and social policy; global justice; regionalism, multilateralism, and transnationalism; environmental protection; gender inequality; ethnic conflict; resource wars; and national security policy before and after September 11, 2001.

Seminar in theory and methods of historical and comparative sociology, primarily for students with background in sociological theory and methods. Examines basic approaches and research data of history and sociology, surveys development of field, and analyzes exemplary studies.

Intensive reading course to develop comprehensive understanding of specific field in sociology as agreed on with advisor.

Reading and research on selected topic, resulting in a written project as agreed on with supervising faculty.

Work on research proposal for doctoral dissertation.

Doctoral dissertation research and writing on approved dissertation topic under direction of committee.

Specialized inquiry of topics of contemporary sociological research and scholarship. Content varies.

Specialized inquiry of topics of contemporary sociological research and scholarship. Content varies.