Sociology Graduate Courses

203R. FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH DESIGN: This course explores the logical foundations of the major research traditions in sociology.

204A-B. TOPICS IN ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS: This seminar will deal with topics of current interest in the area of data analysis and will give participants 'hands-on' experience in using the new techniques with real data.

205A-B. DATA ANALYSIS IN SOCIOLOGY: Basic techniques for the analysis of sociological data using linear models. Emphasis is on sociological applications; the course will cover the use of bivariate, multivariate, and multiple-equation models in sociological research.

206. INTERMEDIATE METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: Review of fundamentals of designing, conducting, and analyzing social surveys. Problems of design and interpretation in experimental and observational studies will be discussed.

207A-B-C. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: Fundamental issues in contemporary social theory from their emergence in the Enlightenment, through the writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, to present day controversies.

210. SEMINAR IN ETHNOMETHODOLOGY: Fundamental processes of social interaction and social organization. Accountability of action and mechanism of institutionalization.

211A-B. FIELD RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY: The organization and execution of research in natural settings; analysis of field data and documentary evidence; problems of comparative history and analytic induction.

212A-B. COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: (A) Theoretical and methodological bases of comparative-historical sociology. (B) Students pursue research projects applying historical and/or comparative methods.

212F. FEMINIST RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES: Fundamental issues in the philosophy, process, and tools of feminist research inquiries.

212P. GENDER RESEARCH PRACTICUM: A research practicum in which students apply the fundamentals of feminist research methodologies to current projects.

212Q. QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM: Required course for students in the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Emphasis.

212R. INTRO. TO THE ANALYSIS OF RECORDED INTERACTION: Methods for analyzing talk in interaction in a computerized multimedia environment. Methods for producing an action analysis, locating recurrent features, building a data collection, and developing a data collection into a formal research paper.

212W. WRITING PRACTICUM IN SOCIOLOGY: Designed to hone research and writing skills; the main work involves students' research projects, and giving feedback to each other. The group discusses a number of issues to do with the craft of writing.

213. THE PRACTICE OF CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY: The course will introduce students to theories and practices of critical ethnography. The aim of the course is to show how critical ethnography can be practiced.

214A-B. INTRODUCTION TO RACE, ETHNICITY, NATION: Focus on the influential and paradigmatic theoretical and conceptual scholarship in the field. Emphasis on comparative framework, cultural approaches, intersection of race, class, and gender, and on interdisciplinary scholarship.

215. CONTEMPORARY THEMES IN RACE AND MIGRATION: Contemporary scholarship on race and migration from a multidisciplinary perspective. Studies of immigration rules, migration patterns, and patterns of settlement from sociology, economics, socio-legal studies, and social and legal theory.

215D. U.S. SOCIOLOGY OF RACE, ETHNICITY, NATION: Historical contextualization of classical and contemporary U.S. sociology of race, ethnicity, and nation.

216D. COMPARATIVE-HIST. RACE, ETHNICITY, NATION: Comparative-historical sociological analyses of varying patterns of race and ethnic relations in the U.S. and in the larger global arena.

218C. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Seminar on the sociological study of culture, examining theoretical perspectives, definitional and analytical problems, production of culture, and cultural effects.

218CP. TOPICS ON CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY: Selected topics in the sociological analysis of the relationship between culture and politics.

218P. SEMINAR ON POPULAR CULTURE: This seminar focuses on theories, research, and debates regarding the sociological analysis of popular culture.

218PA. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN POPULAR CULTURE: This advanced seminar will focus on selected topics in the sociology of popular culture.

218T. THIRD WORLD CULTURAL STUDIES: This course links together Third World and Cultural Studies by examining political culture, religion, literature, film, identities and social movement, trends in area studies scholarship, race/class/gender, and other topics as represented in writing about the Third World.

219. INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES: This course will introduce students to the rationales for developing work in cultural studies. It will draw upon writings by Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams, Hoggart and E.P. Thompson, and will then introduce students to recent developments in this area.

222. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: Advanced study of the nature of social classes and class relations, emphasizing contemporary studies of American society.

223. MEASURING MEANING STRUCTURES: This course introduces computer-based methods for analyzing the type of qualitative textual data which might be extracted from various forms of social and cultural discourse.

224. COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT: Advanced study of theory and research on protest, collective mobilization, collective behavior, grass roots activism, and related topics.

225. SOCIOLOGY OF COLONIZATION: A look at theories and reading of colonization including Lenin, Fanon, and Memmi; drawing from the African, South Asian and Latin American experience; interrogate colonization as the precursor of globalization.

230 A-B-C. PROSEMINAR IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A proseminar on current research and theory in social movement studies and related fields.

231. SEMINAR IN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: Study of the social and cultural bases of the political process.

236. THE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION: This seminar focuses on the structure of naturally occurring conversational interaction with an emphasis on problem formulation and methods of analysis.

236I. INTERACTION IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING: This seminar focuses on how the dynamics of interactional processes contribute to the constitution of formal setting of social action.

236V. VIDEO STUDY OF SOCIAL INTERACTION: This seminar focuses on the structure of naturally occurring conversational interaction with an emphasis on problem formulation and methods of analysis.

239. SOCIOLOGY OF LAW: Selected topics in the sociological analysis of legal structures and processes, and of theories of jurisprudence.

240. G.H. MEAD'S PRAGMATISM: Analysis of G.H. Mead's theories of pragmatism and their application to micro and macro sociological issues, showing how Mead created a unified sociological theory.

242. SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION: The seminar will explore selected topics in the analysis of naturally occurring conversation with the emphasis on conversational exchange as a form of social interaction.

243. PRACTICUM IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Advanced development of topics in social psychology.

244. SEMINAR IN SOCIALIZATION: Selected topics in social development and social learning theory will be discussed.

245A-B-C. SEMINAR ON GENDER: Current research, theories and concepts of gender will be considered. Topics vary from quarter to quarter and by instructor.

246. SEMINAR ON THE LIFE COURSE: Examines theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the life course. The dynamic relation between changing social structures, institutions, and life patterns is emphasized.

248A-B-C. SEMINAR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS: Presentation and discussion of work-in-progress and recent publications emphasizing network relationships among social entities.

248MA-MB. SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS: This course sequence introduces: concepts, methods, and results of graph and network theory; related probability and matrix theory; selected computational routines and simulations; and applications to social cohesion, position, balance, power, etc.

254. THE FAMILY: Selected topics in sociological analysis of family and household arrangements. Particular attention will be paid to the implications of change for systems of gender and race inequality.

255. SEMINAR IN FEMINIST STUDIES: This course will analyze the social, cultural, and economic roots of women's oppression. Particular attention will be paid to the variety of forms that inequality takes, and the diversity of women's experiences which results.

255R. SEMINAR ON GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS: An examination of the intersection of race, class, and gender in empirical and theoretical sociological work.

256A-B. SEMINAR IN FEMINIST THEORY: A two-quarter course describing the development and issues in contemporary feminist theory.

256S. SEMINAR ON SEXUALITIES: Research and theory on sexual meanings, identities, behavior, and communities.

257A-B-C. FEMINIST STUDIES: PROSEMINAR: An advanced seminar focusing on research development in the broad area of feminist studies.

261A-B-C. COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONS: An advanced seminar focusing on research development in broad area of comparative institutions within related political, social, economic, and cultural frameworks.

264. EDUCATION AND SOCIETY: A seminar examining the major theoretical perspectives and a wide variety of empirical studies on the relationship between education and society.

265. DEVELOPMENT AND ITS ALTERNATIVES: The seminar will explore a range of theories, issues, and case studies in the sociology of development and social change, primarily in the Third World.

265G. SOCIOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION: Overview of the sociology of globalization and theories of globalism.

265GS. GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: An advanced graduate seminar covering recent theory and research about global production systems, including developments in world-systems theory, flexible production, post-Fordism, and global commodity chains.

265I. INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL, INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT SOCIOLOGY: Introduces students to the range of core issues and debates with the field of global, international, and development sociology, from political economy to culture, gender to REN, social movements to micro-issues.

265LA. DEVELOPMENT/SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA: The seminar will explore theories, issues, and case studies in the sociology of development and social change in Latin America.

265W. WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT: Identifying, reading and critiquing theoretical and empirical materials from all regions of the Third World that address the interrelated themes of women, culture, and development.

266. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY: This course will consider the relationship between economy and society. Students will analyze non-market determinants of market phenomena, as well as the ways in which markets impinge upon non-market institutions. Topics included in the course will vary.

267. SEMINAR IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS: This seminar will examine recent developments in research and theory on organizations.

268. DISCRIMINATION IN ORGANIZATIONS: This seminar explores the forces that generate, sustain, and erode gender and racial discrimination in organizations. Course materials draw upon social theory and research in the fields of organizational analysis, social psychology, labor economics, and legal studies.

270. DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: An introduction to research on social interaction, using the controversy over the labeling theory of mental illness as an example. Development of a theory of social action, and a methodology appropriate to it.

273. LANGUAGE AND THE BODY: This course brings together the methods and findings of functional linguistics and those of conversation analysis in a dialogue centering on the visible behavior of the body in the organization of talk-in-interaction.

274. LANG., INTERACTION, SOCIAL ORGN.: PROSEMINAR: Discussion of theoretical and methodological issues, current literature, and research in language and social interaction.

285S. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: This seminar will explore the symbolic interactionist perspective with attention to its roots in the Chicago School of urban sociology to more current tensions between realist and postmodernist interpretive projects.

290A-B. TEACHING ASSISTANT TRAINING SEMINAR: The professional roles of sociologists as teacher, researcher, and colleague will be explored. Classroom techniques will be analyzed using video self-criticism and constructive feedback.

294. SPECIAL TOPICS: Special seminar on research subjects of current interest.

Advanced Graduate Study and Research Courses

501. APPRENTICE TEACHING: The application of research and theory to classroom practice in the teaching of undergraduate sociology courses.

502. RESEARCH ASSISTANCE PRACTICUM: Content will vary with individual students, each of whom will be instructed in the practical aspects of doing research in a specific area. Required weekly group meetings with instructor.

504. PROFESSIONAL PROBLEMS: Practical problems frequently encountered by graduate students and assistant professors will be identified and analyzed.

591. GRADUATE WORKSHOP IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH: Presentation of research completed, in progress or proposed, with faculty in attendance. Students are expected to offer critical and useful comments on research.

595AA-ZZ. GROUP STUDIES: Critical review of research in selected fields.

596AA-ZZ. DIRECTED READING AND RESEARCH: Study plan must be approved by department chair.

597AA-ZZ. INDIVIDUAL STUDY FOR MA AND PhD EXAMINATIONS: Normally taken with the student's committee chair.

598. MA THESIS RESEARCH AND PREPARATION: Research and preparation for the masters thesis. Normally taken with the student's MA committee chair.

599AA-ZZ. PhD DISSERTATION PREPARATION: Normally taken with the student's committee chair.