Sociology Courses

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
SOCI 110-01	Social Analysis Instructor: J Daniel Schubert Course Description: Selected topics in the empirical study of the ways in which people's character and life choices are affected by variations in the organization of their society and of the activities by which social arrangements varying in their adequacy to human needs are perpetuated or changed. This course fulfills the DIV II social sciences and US Diversity requirements.	0930:MWF DENNY 313
SOCI 228-01	Sociology of Sexualities Instructor: Amy Steinbugler Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 202-04. Permission of Instructor Required.	1030:TR DENNY 304
SOCI 230-01	Representations of (Im)migrant Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose, Sylvie Toux Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-06. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. This course will focus on the ways in which 1) (im)migrants are represented in various cultural contexts through film, the arts, and the media; and 2) individual (im)migrants and collectivities represent themselves. We will explore how (im)migrants and receiving societies negotiate demographic, religious, and cultural changes as well as changing conceptions of identity at individual, collective, and national levels. We will examine topics such as: accommodation and resistance; inclusion and exclusion; gender and generational dynamics; globalization and identities in flux; art and politics; borders and border-crossings; and nativism.	1030:TR CMST SEM
SOCI 230-02	Mediterranean Migrations Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. 1 credit course cross-listed in History and Sociology will focus on the development of migratory flows between Morocco and southern Europe in the context of trans-Mediterranean migration history. In addition, the course will place migration from Morocco within the larger historical contacts between Europe and Moroccoincluding colonialism and its aftermathand it will consider the impact of larger socioeconomic and political changes on geographic mobility across the Mediterranean. The course will address the interplay of structural socioeconomic and political factors with individual trajectories of migrant men and women, and the impact they have on families and communities.	0900:TR CMST SEM
SOCI 230-03	American Capitalism Instructor: Charles Barone Course Description: Cross-listed with ECON 223-01 and AMST 200-04. Permission of Instructor Required. Designed for those interested in social activism and social justice, this course draws on critical perspectives from Political Economy, American Studies, and Sociology to examine how power is structured in American capitalism across institutions including the social relations of production and distribution, corporations, and markets. Special attention is given to the ways in which powerful economic groups and organizations are able to exert economic control, influence government, and dominate American institutions, such as the media, that shape American culture. Looking beyond capitalism, social movements for greater social and economic justice, and greater economic and political democracy are also examined.	1030:TR DENNY 311
SOCI 230-04	Understanding Race Instructor: Erik Love Course Description: Permission of Instructor Required. W.E.B. DuBois observed that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." While the twentieth century is now over, and the vast majority of Americans agree that racism is abhorrent, racist stereotypes remain common knowledge. The last few decades have seen progress in disrupting formal and legal discrimination, but the socially-defined racial group an individual belongs to remains a significant factor in life chances. How can we explain this? This course provides an introduction to these fundamental questions by examining the role of race in American history. And, to relate sociological theory with their personal experiences, students complete a racial/ethnic autobiography while studying the history of sociological efforts to understand race.	1330:TR WESTC 2
SOCI 230-06	Sustain: Soc Just & Hum Rgts Instructor: Joyce Bylander Course Description: Cross-listed with ENST 311-03. History "is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension." (Solnit, Rebecca, Hope in the Dark, 2004). This course will examine the importance of the environmental movement and broader definitions of sustainability. We will explore examples of direct action, of serendipitous change, and of world-changing events that have moved us more clearly toward an understanding of "our" shared future on this planet. We will survey the issues connected to sustainable systems and will focus more specifically on issues related to food, water and energy. Through readings, film, and experiential activities the course will challenge us to analyze the impact of various actors and assess our own responsibility.	1330:MR WESTC DURBIN
SOCI 238-01	Consumer Culture Instructor: J Daniel Schubert Course Description: The sociology of consumerism is a major specialty in European sociology, and is only recently receiving attention by American sociologists. In this class, we will examine the increasing importance of consumerism in daily life and the degree to which culture has become commercialized. We will discuss the sign value of commodities, as well as the shift from a stratification system based on the relationship of the means of production to one based on styles and patterns of consumption. We will also concern ourselves with the relationships between consumption and more traditional sociological concerns such as gender, race, and social class.Offered every two years.	1130:MWF DENNY 313
SOCI 240-01	Qualitative Methods Instructor: Helene Lee Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 240-01.	0900:TR DENNY 103
SOCI 240-02	Qualitative Methods Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-02. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. This course will focus on the ways in which 1) (im)migrants are represented in various cultural contexts through film, the arts, and the media; and 2) individual (im)migrants and collectivities represent themselves. We will explore how (im)migrants and receiving societies negotiate demographic, religious, and cultural changes as well as changing conceptions of identity at individual, collective, and national levels. We will examine topics such as: accommodation and resistance; inclusion and exclusion; gender and generational dynamics; globalization and identities in flux; art and politics; borders and border-crossings; and nativism.	1330:W CMST SEM
SOCI 244-01	Quantitative Research Methods Instructor: Kjell Enge Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 241-01.	1330:R STERN 11 1330:T STERN 11
SOCI 244-02	Quantitative Research Methods Instructor: Amy Steinbugler Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 241-02.Permission of Instructor Required	1330:MR DENNY 112
SOCI 272-01	Islam and the West Instructor: Erik Love Course Description: Permission of Instructor Required. Cross-listed with MEST 272-01.	1500:MR DENNY 104
SOCI 331-01	Contemp Sociological Theory Instructor: J Daniel Schubert Course Description: This course will examine alternative ways of understanding the human being, society, and culture as they have been presented in contemporary sociological theory (1925-present). It will focus on the theoretical logic of accounting for simple and complex forms of social life, interactions between social processes and individual and group identities, major and minor changes in society and culture, and the linkages between intimate and large-scale human experience. Prerequisite: 110 and one additional course in sociology, or permission of instructor. Offered every spring.	1330:MW DENNY 315
SOCI 405-01	Senior Thesis Instructor: Helene Lee Course Description: Permission of the instructor required.Independent study, in consultation with a specially constituted faculty committee, of a problem area chosen by the student. The student should, in addition to pursuing his/her own interests, also seek to demonstrate how various perspectives within sociology and, where relevant, other disciplines bear on the topic chosen.	1330:T DENNY 315
SOCI 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Susan Rose Course Description:	:
SOCI 500-02	Independent Study Instructor: Helene Lee Course Description:	: