Undergraduate courses in sociology
Undergraduate Courses in Sociology Below we list undergraduate courses in Sociology. All sociology students are required to take 101, 300, POL 345 / SOC 305, and 302. Sociology majors must take nine courses within the department including those listed above. Two of the nine courses may come from other departments (cognates) with the approval of the Departmental Representative. In addition to the courses listed below, seniors are allowed to take graduate courses in the department with the approval of the faculty and the Departmental Representative.
Required Courses
SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Orientation to basic sociological concepts as analytical tools for the study of continuities and change in social and individual behavior. Influence of family, school, and the market. Social construction of self and selected aspects of the life course including childhood, love, and death.
M. Duneier & P. Starr
Orientation to basic sociological concepts as analytical tools for the study of continuities and change in social and individual behavior. Influence of family, school, and the market. Social construction of self and selected aspects of the life course including childhood, love, and death.
M. Duneier & P. Starr
SOC 300 - Claims and Evidence in Sociology
Interpretion and evaluation of arguments in the sociological literature. Learning to read and write critically in sociology. Preparing claims and providing evidence in sociology.
R. Ferguson
Interpretion and evaluation of arguments in the sociological literature. Learning to read and write critically in sociology. Preparing claims and providing evidence in sociology.
R. Ferguson
POL 345 / SOC 305 - Introduction to Quantitative Social Science
An overview of the research process in social science, including techniques of sampling, methods of data collection, principles of measurement, problems of inference and proof, basic methods of data analysis, and ethical considerations.
M. Frye & K. Imai
An overview of the research process in social science, including techniques of sampling, methods of data collection, principles of measurement, problems of inference and proof, basic methods of data analysis, and ethical considerations.
M. Frye & K. Imai
SOC 302 - Sociological Theory
A systematic survey of the principal concepts underlying all sociological description and explanation-prediction, with special attention to the different ways these concepts are employed in the four currently leading groups of theories, namely structural functionalism, exchange theory, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
P. Fernández-Kelly
A systematic survey of the principal concepts underlying all sociological description and explanation-prediction, with special attention to the different ways these concepts are employed in the four currently leading groups of theories, namely structural functionalism, exchange theory, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
P. Fernández-Kelly
200-level Courses
SOC 201 - American Society and Politics
P. Starr
SOC 204 - Social Networks
M . Salganik
SOC 205 - Sociology From E Street: Bruce Springsteen’s America
M. Duneier
SOC 206 – Travelers, Tourists and Pilgrims
Staff
SOC 209 - Sociology of Sports
Staff
SOC 210/LAS 210/URB 210/LAO 210 - Urban Sociology: The City and Social Change in the Americas
P. Fernández-Kelly
SOC 211 - Sociology of Religion
Staff
SOC 214 - Creativity, Innovation and Society
Staff
SOC 216 – The Ghetto
Staff
SOC 220 – Inequality, Mobility, and the American Dream
Staff
SOC 221/AAS 221/GSS 221 - Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
Staff
SOC 222 - The Sociology of Crime and Punishment
Staff
SOC 223 – Hustles and Hustlers
R. Ferguson
SOC 225/GSS 225 - Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
Staff
SOC 227/URB 227 - Race and Ethnicity
P. Fernández-Kelly
SOC 240 - Families
Staff
SOC 241 – Self and Society
Staff
SOC 243 – Immigration, Citizenship and Identity
Staff
SOC 248/LAS 248 - Modern Mexican Society
D. Massey
SOC 250 - The Western Way of War
M. Centeno
300-level Courses
SOC 300 – Claims and Evidence in Sociology
R. Ferguson
SOC 301 – Sociological Research Methods
Staff
SOC 302 – Sociological Theory
P. Fernández-Kelly
SOC 307 – Contemporary China
Y. Xie
SOC 308/RES 308/EAS 308 – Communism and Beyond: China and Russia
D. Kaple
SOC 309/LAS 309 – Topics in the Sociology of Latin America
Staff
SOC 310/LAS 310/GSS 312 – Gender and Development in the Americas
Staff
SOC 315/LAS 316/AAS 315 – Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Latin America
Staff
SOC 317 – Race and Ethnicity in Global Comparative Perspective
E. Monk
SOC 320 – Growing Up Poor Across America: An Introduction to Reasoning with Data
M Frye & B. Stewart
SOC 322 – The Sociology of Citizen Science: Professions, Amateurs, and Organizations
L. Senesac
SOC 323 – The Sociology of Intellectuals and Ideas
Staff
SOC 327 – Immigration, Race, and the Black Population of the United States
T. Hamilton
SOC 329/LAO 329 – Immigrant America
T. Hamilton
SOC 330 – Studying Local, Writing Ethnography
C. Stack
SOC 331/LAS 330 – Social Exclusion in Latin America
Staff
SOC 332 – Sociology of Finance
Staff
SOC 335/POL 359 – Political Sociology
Staff
SOC 336 – Sociology of Complex Organizations
A. Goldstein
SOC 337 – Environment and Migration
S. Lopus
SOC 338/LAS 338 – The Sociology of Latinos in the U.S.
M. Tienda
SOC 339 – Sociology of International Migration
Staff
SOC 340/REL 390 – God of Many Faces: Comparative Perspectives
on Migration and Religion
P. Fernández-Kelly
SOC 342 – Organizations: Management, Bureaucracy and Work
Staff
SOC 343 – Advanced Research Methods
Staff
SOC 344 Communications, Culture and Society
P. Starr
SOC 345 – Money, Work and Social Life
V. Zelizer
SOC 346 – Sociology of the Cubicle: Work, Technology, and Organization
J. Vertesi
SOC 347 – The Social Life of the Metropolis
Staff
SOC 348 – Environmental Sociology
Staff
SOC 349 – Schools and Society: Race, Class and Gender in U.S. Education
Staff
SOC 352 – The Sociology of American Political History
Staff
SOC 354/AFS – Contemporary Issues in African Societies
S. Lopus
SOC 355 – Government, Poverty, and Inequality in Modern America
P Fernández-Kelly
SOC 356 – Sociology of Science
J. Vertesi
SOC 357 – Sociology of Technology
J. Vertesi
SOC 359 – Higher Education and Society
Staff
SOC 361/GSS 361 – Culture, Power and Inequality
Staff
SOC 363 – Religion in the United States
Staff
SOC 364/CHV 364 – Sociology of Medicine
E. Armstrong
SOC 365 – Health, Society and Politics
P. Starr
SOC 366 – Social & Economic Determinants of Health
T. Hamilton
SOC 368 – Special Topics in Sociology
Staff
400-level Courses
SOC 405/CHV 405 – The Sociology of Law
K. Scheppele
SOC 406 – Sex, Love and Marriage
M. Frye
SOC 409/COS 409 – Critical Approaches to Human Computer Interaction
J. Vertesi
Other Courses
URB 200/WWS 210/SOC 200 – Urbanism and Urban Policy
D. Massey
AAS 202/SOC 202 – Introductory Research Methods in African-American Studies
Staff
URB 201/WWS 201/SOC 203/ARC 207 – Introduction to Urban Studies
M. C. Boyer
URB 202/SOC 208 Documentary Film and the City
Staff
REL 219/SOC 219 – Business Ethics and Modern Religious Thought
D. W. Miller
AAS 235/SOC 236 Race is Socially Constructed: Now What?
R. Benjamin
EGR 277/SOC 277/HIS 277 – Technology and Society
J. Vertesi
AAS 302/SOC 303 Political Bodies: The Social Anatomy of Power and Difference
R. Benjamin
GLS 303/SOC 304 The Global Ghetto Summer course
M. Duneier
POL 345/SOC 305 – Introduction to Quantitative Social Science
M. Frye & K. Imai
GSS 311/SOC 311 – Gender, Crime, Media, Culture
Staff
WWS 331/SOC 312/AAS 317 – Race and Public Policy
D. Massey
WWS 334/SOC 313 – Media and Public Policy
P. Starr
EAS 302/POL 300/ANT 384/SOC 316/ENV 384 -- Dilemmas of Development in Asia
D. Leheny
PHI 318/CHV 318/HUM 316/SOC 318 – Social Philosophy
J. Thakkar
ECS 323/SOC 321 – Loving and Hating the West
Staff
GLS 323/SOC 324 – Contemporary Chinese Society, Global Seminar Summer course
Y. Xie
POL 333/LAO 333/LAS 333/SOC 325 – Latino Politics in the U.S.
A. Valenzuela
WWS 333/SOC 326 – Law, Institutions and Public Policy
P. Starr
WWS 330/SOC 328 Population, Society and Public Policy
M. Tienda
POL 334/SOC 333/LAO 334 – Immigration Politics and Policymaking in the U.S.
A. Valenzuela
LAO 200/SOC 341/LAS 336 – Latinos in American Life & Culture
M. Tienda
THR 303/AMS 330/SOC 350 Ethnographic Playwriting
Staff
ECO 339/SOC 351 – Introduction to Population Problems
Staff
WWS 351/SOC 353/COS 351 – Information Technology & Public Policy
D. Dobkin
AAS 350/SOC 362 – Rats, Riots and Revolution: Housing in the Metropolitan United States
K. Taylor
AAS 301/SOC 367 – Black to the Future: Science, Fiction, and Society.
R. Benjamin
AFS 373/SOC 373 – Race, Class and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Staff
URB 385/SOC 385/HUM 385/ARC 385 – Mapping Gentrification
A. Shkuda
ART 388/SOC 388 Photo, Urbanism and Civic Change Between 1960-1980
K. Bussard
GSS 420/SOC 420 – Born in the USA: Culture and Reproduction in Modern America
E. Armstrong
ANT 450/GSS 450/SOC 450 – The Revolution will not be Televised
J. Borneman
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