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SOC/WGS 281 Sociology of Families (3) Families and their connections to other social and economic institutions. Diversity of family forms and experiences. Formation and dissolution of relationships. Trends and changes.
SOC 300 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care (3) To offer students a broad overview of health and society from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
SOC 300 Sociology of Work and Labor (3) To inspire deeper engagement with and new ways of thinking about the past, present, and future of work and labor.
SOC 300 Global Capitalism (3) This course begins with a study of the 2008 global financial crisis and the “populist” political cycle it opened. We set the crisis in broader historical terms and delve into the origins of capitalism, studying its political effects from a historical perspective.
SOC 300 Sociology of Education (3) This course examines the ways in which educational inequality reproduces social inequality in broader society
SOC 300 Asian Americans and Social Inequality (3) To familiarize you with major issues and potential controversies about Asian American experiences of social inequality, primarily in education and the labor market.
SOC300 Selected Topics in Sociology (1-3)
SOC/WGS 305 Sociology of Sex and Gender (3) Social forces shaping women’s and men’s lives in contemporary societies. Changing gender expectations. Intersections of gender with race and ethnicity, class, and age. Social movements for women’s and men’s liberation.
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SOC 343 The Deviance Process (3) Social processes that define behaviors or people as “deviant.” Theories of anomic and nonconforming behavior. Individual, interpersonal, and structural consequences of labeling and exclusion.SOC/AAS 353 Sociology of the African American Experience (3) Theory and research of African American sociologists in the historical, social, and political context of American sociology. Relation of their work to the African American experience and its reception and impact in the public policy arena.
SOC/WGS 355 Sociology of Health and Illness (3) Conceptions of health and illness in society. The nature and organization of health professions and health delivery systems. Social aspects of health related behavior.
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SOC 400 Selected Topics in Sociology (1-3)
SOC 400 Minority Groups: Black & Latinx Americans (3) This course focuses on social science theory and research about two major groups, African Americans and Latinos in the United States.
SOC 400 Veterans Across the Life Cycle (3) Exploration of the impact of military service on early, mid, and late adult life course outcomes inclusive of socioeconomic standing and health.
SOC 400 Health and Place (3) This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the concepts, measurement, and study of population health and health inequalities across multiple geographic scales, including inter- and intra-national, regional, urban/rural, and neighborhood-level differences.
SOC 403 Environmental Sociology (3) In this course we will examine the ways in which our contemporary society depends on natural resources from around the world and the ways that social institutions create environmental problems and attempt to solve them.
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SOC/WGS 425 Feminist Organizations (3) Women's movement history in the United States and internationally. Successes and problems of organizations built by feminist activism. Implications for a new generation of feminist(and other) activism.
SOC/AAS/WGS 427 New York City: Black Women Domestic Workers (3) Historical understanding of Black women's engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as "ideal" domestic workers.SOC/DSP/WGS 432 Gender and Disability (3) This course will investigate the intersection of gender and disability and how it impacts such issues as representation/self-representation, art and poetry, illness, education, sexuality, reproduction and motherhood, and caring work.
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SOC/DSP 440 Sociology of Disability (3) A theoretical understanding of disability through the lens of sociology and that of disability studies and demonstrates how cultural institutions shape conceptions of disability in society.
SOC/NAT 441 Federal Indian Policy and Native American Identity (3) Shifts in Federal Indian Policy and the social constructions of American Indian identity. Identity struggles and identity politics in relation to blood and descent, community, land and sovereignty.
SOC/NAT 444 Contemporary Native American Movements (3) Sociological analysis of Native American movements from 1960's to the present. national and regional movements in relation to jurisdictional issues and human rights. Red Power and pan-Indian movements are considered.
SOC/AAS/WGS 445 The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital and Tourism (3) A political economy approach to educating students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean. The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes the region's development that has resulted in its current configuration.
SOC/QSX/WGS 456 LGBT Studies in Sociology (3) Recent sociological research in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies addressing sexuality, identity, community, representation, politics, social change and their interrelations.
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