101 Introductory Sociology (3:3:0) 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.
102 Introduction to Sociological Inquiry (3:3:0) 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. Students may not receive credit for both SOCI 101 and 102.
120 Globalization and Society (3:3:0) 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. Students may not receive credit for both SOCI 120 and GLOA 101.
300 Social Control and Human Freedom (3:3:0) Examines how various social institutions function to organize and regulate society. Topics include family, education, ideology, law, media, work, governmental planning, and stratification. Serves as a foundation of many specialized courses offered by department, especially those that focus on control of crime and delinquency.
301 Criminology (3:3:0) 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.
302 Sociology of Delinquency (3:3:0) 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.
303 Sociological Research Methodology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SOCI 101 or 102, or permission of instructor. 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.
304 Sociology of Work and Occupations (3:3:0) Analysis of how societies structure work and allocate economic functions among different groups and classes. Topics include historical and cross-cultural variations in work, human consequences of industrialization, and impact of transition to post-industrial society. Special emphasis on changing position of professional employees and social factors that affect distribution of opportunity among various groups, and growing significance of technology for the nature of work.
305 Sociology of Small Groups (3:3:0) 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.
307 Social Movements and Political Protest (3:3:0) Explores process by which people organize to resist current social arrangements and create alternative institutions, policies, or leadership. Historical and contemporary case studies of domestic and global change used to explore how, why, and to what effect various groups have organized to reject status quo and create social change.
308 Racial and Ethnic Relations (3:3:0) How race and ethnicity have been shaped by the policies and practices in Western and non-Western societies. Background given on evolution of racial and ethnic sentiments from Western colonial period in African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries as well as contemporary U.S. racial and ethnic relations. Explores how changing demographic racial patterns may affect future definitions of race and ethnicity.
309 Marriage, Families, and Intimate Life (3:3:0) Focuses on family in history and family forms in contemporary societies. Looks at interaction within families, and relationship between society and families.
310 Sociology of Deviance (3:3:0) Analyzes macro- and microlevel deviance-producing processes, meaning and control of deviance, and major theoretical approaches to deviance.
311 Classical Sociological Theory (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 9 credits of sociology including SOCI 101, or permission of instructor. Explores sociological tradition through readings and discussions of ideas drawn from writings of selected sociological thinkers such as Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and others.
312 Qualitative Research Methods (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 9 credits of sociology including SOCI 101 or 102, or permission of instructor. Introduces ethnography, fieldwork 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.
313 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (4:3:2) Prerequisite: SOCI 101, or permission 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.
314 Sociology of Culture (3:3:0) Contemporary examination of culture as aspect of symbolic order, social institutions, and everyday practices of social life. Introduces range of different approaches to sociological study of culture with emphasis on problems of cultural difference and narrative aspects of culture in institutions of democratic society.
315 Sex and Gender in Contemporary Society (3:3:0) Changing conceptions of sex roles, both female and male, in contemporary society. Using historical and comparative data, considers differential socialization of males and females in relation to changing social structure in which it takes place.
320 Social Structure and Globalization (3:3:0) 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.
326 Armed Conflict and Conflict Resolution (3:3:0) 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.
332 Sociology of Urban Communities (3:3:0) Urban community: historical development, demography, and ecology of metropolitan areas; urbanism as a way of life; emergence of suburbia; and future of cities.
340 Power, Politics, and Society (3:3:0) 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, power-sharing, protest, and revolution.
350 Community, Diversity, and Democracy: A Practicum (3:3:0) 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.
352 Social Problems (3:3:0) Sociological analysis of the problems of modern society, including those related to stratification, urbanism, family and kinship, cultural change, and deviant behavior.
355 Social Inequalities (3:3:0) Studies class structures and implications for individuals and groups in U.S. society. Explores issues of race and ethnicity, language and immigration status, sex and gender, social class, age, and sexual orientation. Students critically examine theory and research that explores construction, experience, and meaning of such differences.
360 Youth Culture and Society (3:3:0) 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.
373 The Community (3:3:0) Examines small to moderately sized communities ranging through village, rural community, small town, and city subcommunity. Latter category includes city localities, ethnic villages, and suburban communities.
377 Art and Society (3:3:0) Introduces the many ways in which art reflects social tendencies, comments on social problems, and contributes to discussions about 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.
382 Education in Contemporary Society (3:3:0) Studies education as social institution and its function as socialization agency for social stability and social change. Emphasizes influences of social class elements on educational process, and social organization of the U.S. public school system.
383 Human Services in Society (3:3:0) 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.
385 Sociology of Religion (3:3:0) 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.
390 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Disability (3:3:0) 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.
395 Issues in Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisites: 90 credits, and 12 credits of sociology. Opportunity to apply to contemporary relevant issues the theoretical perspectives and methodological skills previously learned.
399 Independent Study (1–3:0:0) Open to sociology majors only. Prerequisites: 6 credits of sociology including SOCI 101, and approval of written proposal. Individual study of sociological topic of interest to student.
402 Sociology of Punishment and Corrections (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 6 credits of sociology including SOCI 101, or permission of instructor. 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.
405 Analysis of Social Data (4:3:3) Prerequisite: 60 credits, SOCI 313 or permission of instructor. 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.
410 Social Surveys and Attitude and Opinion Measurements (3:3:0) Prerequisites: SOCI 303 and 313 or equivalents, or permission of instructor. Surveys research methods and techniques to collect, measure, and analyze social data, attitudes, and opinions with special emphasis on using computer software, Internet, and other information technologies for social research. Highlights ethical issues for social research, computing, and information technology.
412 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 12 credits of sociology including SOCI 101 and 311, or permission of instructor. Analyzes contemporary sociological theorists such as Parsons, Merton, Mills, Berger, and Gouldner in terms of their relationship to major schools of contemporary sociological theory.
414 Sociology of Language (3:3:0) Prerequisites: 60 credits and 3 credits of sociology, or permission of instructor. 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.
416 Internship in Sociology (3:0:0) Prerequisite: 21 credits of sociology, including Research Methods, or permission of instructor. Intended to promote learning in application of sociological knowledge, and build skills in different work settings. Students work in approved setting as applied sociologists. Required: minimum 40 hours of work for each credit.
421 Field Work in Social Change (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 6 credits of sociology or permission of instructor. 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.
441 The Sociology of Aging (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 6 credits of sociology, or permission of instructor. 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.
450 The Holocaust: The Construction of Social History through Survivor Testimonies (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 60 credits, or permission of instructor. 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.
471 Prevention and Deterrence of Crime (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 60 credits, in-service status, or permission of instructor. 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.
475/575 Women and the Law (3:3:0) Prerequisite for 475: 60 credits, or permission of instructor. 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.
480, 481 Honors Seminar in Sociology I, Honors Seminar in Sociology II (3:0:0), (3:0:0) Prerequisite: admission to sociology honors program, and permission of instructor. Linked, sequential courses, normally given by the same instructor. SOCI 480 involves application of theoretical and methodological knowledge to analysis of social issue that serves as course’s central theme. SOCI 481 culminates in preparation and presentation of substantive research paper.
482 Honors Internship in Sociology (3:0:0) Prerequisites: admission to Sociology Honors Program and permission of instructor. 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.
483 The Sociology of Higher Education (3:3:0) Prerequisite: 60 credits. 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.
492 Sociology of Organizations (3:3:0) 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.
499 Independent Research in Sociology (1–4:0:0) Prerequisite: 18 credits of sociology including SOCI 311, 313, and 412; 3.00 GPA in sociology; and research proposal approved by instructor and department chair before enrollment. Investigation of sociological problem according to individual interest, with emphasis on research.
503 Sociology of Law (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
505 Sociology of Sex and Gender (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Advanced study of sex roles in contemporary society. Using historical and comparative data, examines perceived, prescribed, and actual sex differentiation in social, political, and economic roles.
515 Applying Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology or graduate standing. Overview of the ways sociologists have applied theoretical and methodological skills and understanding in sociological practice in nonacademic settings.
516 Internship in Sociology (1–6:1–6:0) Prerequisites: 21 credits of sociology including research methods, or permission of instructor. Learning experience in the application of sociological knowledge and skills in different work settings. Students work in approved setting as applied sociologists. Minimum 40 hours of work for every 1 credit.
523 Racial and Ethnic Relations: American and Selected Global Perspectives (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Demographic purview of U.S. racial and ethnic groups; racial and ethnic groups as human-social-minority groups. Factors making for minority status including personality factors, group cultural factors; reactions of racial, ethnic minorities to minority status; programs, methods, social movements, and philosophies seeking to change minority group status.
530 Methods and Logic of Social Inquiry (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, or graduate status and undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. Emphasizes gathering, interpreting, and evaluating scientific evidence. Develops critical-thinking skills by using set of rules and logical criteria for evaluating social science research. Covers logic of scientific inquiry, including various data collection methods, such as observational research and experiments, types of variables, causality, and how to distinguish between good and bad research in published literature.
531 Statistical Reasoning (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing and undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. Intermediate treatment of statistical methods used in analyzing social data. Topics include sampling, inference, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, linear regression, and correlation. Introduces logic of multivariate analysis.
550 The Holocaust (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, or graduate status. 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.
590 Gender, Race, and the Natural World (3:3:0) Prerequisites: undergraduate seniors, graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
599/NURS 611 Issues in Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate senior status in sociology, or graduate status. 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. May be taken only once for credit.
605 Gender and Social Structure (3:3:0) 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.
607 Criminology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Crime and crime causation. Topics include social basis of law, administration of justice, and control and prevention of crime.
608 Juvenile Delinquency (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Sociology of adolescent behavior. Sociological factors that determine which behaviors and social categories of adolescents are likely to be labeled and treated as delinquent.
609 Sociology of Punishment and Corrections (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
611 Classical Sociological Theory (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of 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.
612 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
614 Sociology of Culture (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
616 Internship in Sociology (1–6:0:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provides learning experiences in application of sociological knowledge and skills in different work settings. Students work in approved setting as applied sociologists. Each credit requires minimum of 40 hours of work.
619 Conflict and Conflict Management: Perspectives from Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing in sociology or conflict analysis and resolution, or permission of instructor. 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.
620 Methods and Logic of Social Inquiry (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. 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. Focus both on how results are obtained and disseminated via research reports.
630 Analytic Techniques of Social Research (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing and undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. Focuses on general linear model and multiple regression analysis in nonexperimental data. Topics include logic of causal analysis, multicollinarity, influential observations, categorical independent and dependent variables, violation of assumptions, missing data, structural equation and measurement models, and discrete multivariate analysis.
631 Survey Research (3:3:0) Prerequisites: SOCI 530 and 531, or permission of instructor. Introduces theory, method, and practice of survey research design and analysis. Students complete survey research project.
632 Evaluation Research for Social Programs (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SOCI 530 and 531, or permission of instructor. 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.
633 Special Topics in Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
634 Qualitative Research Methods (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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, long-term 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.
635 Environment and Society. (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing. 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.
636 Statistical Reasoning (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. 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.
640 Social Theory and Social Policy (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Major theories of social organization and social change as means of understanding social policy development. Concentration is on social policies in American society.
650 Issues in the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Disability (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Social context of disease and medical care, position of professions in medical care structure, delivery of medical care, and physician-patient relationship under different systems of practice.
651 (551) Health Care Systems (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
660/860 Historical and Comparative Sociology (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
686 Sociology of Aging (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Analyzes sociological issues in aging, including class and cultural factors, problems of work, retirement, attachment and loss, and ageism. Examines different theories of aging.
692 McDonaldization of Organizations (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. 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.
696, 697 Independent Study (3:0:0), (3:0:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Theoretical and research literature chosen by student and instructor.
711 Classical Sociological Theory (3:3:0) 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.
712 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3:3:0) 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.
730 Analytic Techniques of Social Research (3:3:0) Prerequisite: undergraduate statistics and research methodology, or permission of instructor. 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.
797 Sociology Colloquium (3:3:0) Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Public forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary sociological research.
799 Thesis (1–6:0:0) Graded S/NC.
800 Studies for the Doctor of Philosophy in Education (variable credit) Prerequisite: admission to PhD in education program to study in sociology. Program of studies designed by student’s discipline director and approved by student’s doctoral committee, which brings student to participate in current research of discipline director and results in paper reporting original contributions of the student. Enrollment may be repeated.
801 Proseminar in Public and Applied Sociology (3:3:0) 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.
802 Proseminar in Public and Applied Sociology, II (3:3:0) The second in a two-semester sequence that provides students with an introduction to the theories, methods, and practice of public and applied sociology as they are relevant to issues of societal and community importance. Builds on the historical and contextual understandings of the first semester by examining contemporary issues and challenges such as university and community relationships, activism and research, ethical dilemmas of engaged research, and methodological debates.
803 Institutions and Inequality (3:3:0) Analyzes the interrelations between social inequalities and institutional structures, including markets, the press, prisons, mental institutions, cultural organizations, and corporations.
804 Sociology of Globalization (3:3:0) 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.
840 Work Organizations and Social Inequality (3:3:0) 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.
844 Youth, Schooling, and Popular Culture (3:3:0) 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 consumer markets operate as spaces of cultural learning.
845 Society and Education (3:3:0) 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.
850 Sociology of Development (3:3:0) 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.
851 Globalization and Social Movements (3:3:0) 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.
853 Cities in a Global Society (3:3:0) 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.
857 Sociology of Human Rights (3:3:0) Examines the connections among inequality, conflict, social justice, and human rights in an age of globalization. Drawing on case studies from around the world, 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 11th.
998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (1-6:0) Prerequisite: successful completion of all course work and doctoral comprehensive exams. Work on research proposal for doctoral dissertation. Course may be repeated once for credit for total of 6 credits. Graded S/NC.
999 Doctoral Dissertation (1-12:0) Prerequisite: Successful completion of SOCI 998. Doctoral dissertation research and writing on approved dissertation topic under direction of committee. Maximum of 12 credits may be applied toward degree. Graded S/NC.